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Analysis: Covid Deaths Surge Across a Weary America as a Once-Hopeful Summer Ends

Mon, 2021-09-06 15:04 — mike kraft

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A summer that began with plunging caseloads and real hope that the worst of Covid-19 had passed is ending with soaring death counts, full hospitals and a bitter realization that the coronavirus is going to remain a fact of American life for the foreseeable future.

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accination rates are ticking upward, and reports of new infections are starting to fall in some hard-hit Southern states. But Labor Day weekend bears little resemblance to Memorial Day, when the country was averaging fewer than 25,000 cases daily, or to the Fourth of July, when President Biden spoke about nearing independence from the virus.

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COVID-19 pandemic threatens to reverse years of progress made in patient safety, CDC study suggests

Mon, 2021-09-06 13:30 — mike kraft

COVID-19 pandemic threatens to reverse years of progress made in patient safety, CDC study suggests After years of progress reducing health care-associated infections, a CDC study found these types of infections increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY YahooNews

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COVID-19 surges poses a risk for healthcare workers: PTSD

Sun, 2021-09-05 22:49 — mike kraft

Each COVID-19 surge poses a risk for healthcare workers: PTSD Nurse Chris Prott's knees jump, his heart races, his mouth goes dry and his mind floods with dark memories when he talks about working in the Milwaukee VA Medical Center's intensive care unit (ICU) during pandemic surges. Lisa Baertlein Reuters

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Another Long Haul Covid Risk: Lingering Kidney Problems

Thu, 2021-09-02 10:46 — mike kraft

Since the beginning of the pandemic, doctors have found that people who become very ill with Covid-19 often experience kidney problems, not just the lung impairments that are the hallmark of the illness.

Now, a large study suggests that kidney issues can last for months after patients recover from the initial infection, and may lead to a serious lifelong reduction of kidney function in some patients.

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Analysis: Science Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future

Thu, 2021-09-02 10:33 — mike kraft

Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future Many people with long COVID feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse.   Ed Yong The Atlantic

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Analysis: How Covid data gaps in states allowed Delta to proliferate

Thu, 2021-09-02 10:19 — mike kraft

How Covid data gaps allowed Delta to proliferate Eighteen months into the pandemic, Louisiana and more than 20 other states are still trying to fill key gaps in data while fighting the most aggressive version yet of the virus. Erin Banco POLITICO

When new Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations began soaring in Louisiana in July, state health officials were struggling with data gaps that blinded them to the full threat of the Delta variant.

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Breakthough Infections Are Less Likely to Lead to Long COVID-- British Study Suggests

Thu, 2021-09-02 10:08 — mike kraft

Study: Vaccination lowers long Covid risk, even when people are infected The research is among the earliest evidence that immunization reduces the risk of long Covid even when a breakthrough infection occurs. Andrew Joseph STAT

People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 appear to have a much lower likelihood of developing long Covid than unvaccinated people even when they contract the coronavirus, a study published Wednesday indicated.

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Americans about equally split on whether vaccination and/or mask manadates would make them more likely to dine in restaurants

Wed, 2021-09-01 19:53 — mike kraft

1 in 3 Americans says a COVID-19 vaccine mandate would deter them from dining in a restaurant But the same proportion said a vaccine mandate would actually make them more likely to eat out, according to a National Restaurant Association survey. Grace Dean YahooNews

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Vaccinations: U.S vaccination rate has risen by 17 % since FDA gave full approval to Phizer vaccine

Wed, 2021-09-01 13:08 — mike kraft

First vaccination doses up 17 percent since Pfizer approval: analysis The number of Americans who have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine has risen by 17 percent since Pfizer's was granted full approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week, Joseph Choi TheHill

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VAccine Resistance Part II: Analysis of the organized anti-Vaccine momvement

Wed, 2021-09-01 12:53 — mike kraft

As the coronavirus began pushing the nation into lockdown in March 2020, Joshua Coleman, an anti-vaccine campaigner who organizes anti-vaccine rallies, went on Facebook Live to give his followers a rallying speech. He laid out what he thought the pandemic really was: an opportunity.

“This is the one time in human history where every single human being across this country, possibly across the planet, but especially in this country, are all going to have an interest in vaccination and vaccines,” he said. “So it’s time for us to educate.”

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