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WHO assessment finds high risk of spread of coronavirus from fur farming

Mon, 2021-02-22 12:32 — mike kraft
New assessment shows high risk of introduction and spread from fur farming of the virus that causes COVID-19 A global risk assessment conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal health (OIE) and WHO has shown that the overall risk of introduction and spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the virus that causes C
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How efforts work in one Florida community to enroll people for coronavirus vaccines

Mon, 2021-02-22 12:23 — mike kraft
In one Florida community, enrolling people for coronavirus vaccines, one conversation at a time Those conversations are especially crucial in communities of color, where the virus has carved a vast path of destruction during the past year. Lori Rozsa Washington Post
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Black nurses have dispoportionate death rate, struggle with mental health support while battling Covid-19

Mon, 2021-02-22 11:01 — mike kraft
'Absolutely defeated': Black nurses struggle with mental health support while battling Covid-19 The stress of taking care of Covid-19 patients has Black nurses in need of mental health care -- but getting it can be a challenge. Megan Marples, CNN CNN
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Second-Shot Crunch Leaves Many Without Complete Immunizations

Mon, 2021-02-22 10:48 — mike kraft
Second-Shot Crunch Leaves Many Without Complete Immunizations John Tozzi Bloomberg.com

Almost a month after U.S. vaccination campaigns ramped up to give Covid-19 shots to more than a million people a day, their second doses are coming due, straining state rollouts and and leaving some without complete immunizations.

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Clinics are springing up to treat covid long haulers.

Mon, 2021-02-22 10:35 — mike kraft
Clinics are springing up around the country for what some call a potential second pandemic: Long Covid From Washington state to Florida, from California to Massachusetts, facilities are opening to help the growing number of Americans who suffer from Covid-19 symptoms many months after their diagnosis. Theresa Waldrop, CNN CNN
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Covid aid small business loan program to be revised to reach smaller, minority firms

Mon, 2021-02-22 10:17 — mike kraft
Biden to revise small business loans to reach smaller, minority firms U.S. President Joe Biden will launch changes on Monday to the main U.S. coronavirus aid program for small businesses to try to reach smaller, minority-owned firms and sole proprietors left behind in previous rounds of aid. Reuters Staff U.S.
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Biden administration changes Trump administration priorities for vaccine distribution

Mon, 2021-02-22 10:10 — mike kraft
Biden upends Trump's calculation of who gets federal vaccination help This time, vaccines and supplies are going to underserved communities. "Anything Trump did, we're doing the opposite," said one official. NBC News
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Three ways of visualizing the coronavirus 500,000 death toll in the U.S.

Mon, 2021-02-22 10:03 — mike kraft
500,000 dead, a number almost too large to grasp A little less than a year ago, covid-19 had killed just a handful of people in the United States. Now, the pandemic’s official death toll equals the size of a major city, more than the population of Kansas City and nearly as many as Atlanta or Sacramento. It can be hard to grasp the enormity — half a million people, gone. What if we imagined them traveling as one group? Or killed in action?
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U.S. on verge of half a million coronavirus deaths. Ceremony planned for tonight

Mon, 2021-02-22 09:50 — mike kraft
US coronavirus death toll approaches milestone of 500,000 The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 — roughly... AP NEWS

The U.S. stood at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus.

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WHO panel to recommend 'deeper' study in China of early Covid-19 clues

Sun, 2021-02-21 15:26 — mike kraft
CNN Exclusive: WHO panel to recommend 'deeper' study of early Covid-19 clues The World Health Organization's preliminary report into the origins of the novel coronavirus will recommend more extensive contact tracing of the first known patient with Covid-19 in Wuhan, China, as well as the supply chain of nearly a dozen traders in the Huanan seafood market, which is thought to have played a role in the early spread of Covid-19 in late 2019, according to investigators familiar with the draft report. Sandi Sidhu and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN CNN
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