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India’s crisis shows how oxygen is a vital medicine not available to everyone and scarce in some other countries

Fri, 2021-05-07 20:53 — mike kraft

India’s crisis shows how oxygen is a vital medicine not everyone can access

Oxygen is an essential medical treatment to save human lives. But, in recent weeks, it’s become clear just how vital it is as India reels from a deadly surge in COVID-19 cases. Express trains are racing across the country to deliver oxygen from the eastern town of Angul to the capital of Delhi and other regions. Meanwhile, desperate pleas fill social media from people forced to helplessly watch their family members slowly suffocate.

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Cruise line blows warning whistle against Florida governor's ban on vaccine passports

Fri, 2021-05-07 20:39 — mike kraft
Major cruise ship company may avoid Florida if state doesn't permit Covid-19 vaccination checks Florida's new law prohibiting businesses from asking whether employees or customers have been vaccinated against Covid-19 may take a toll on its cruise business. By Mallika Kallingal and Andy Rose, CNN CNN
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Covid-outbreak hit 79 members of an Oregon church that sued over restrictions on in-church services .

Fri, 2021-05-07 20:18 — mike kraft
An Oregon church sued over covid-19 restrictions. Now, an outbreak there has sickened 74. The Oregon Health Authority said at least 74 people associated with Peoples Church have tested positive for covid-19 — one of the state’s largest workplace outbreaks. Andrea Salcedo Washington Post
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New Jersey doctor, expert in infectious diseases, died of Covid in India helping to care for family

Fri, 2021-05-07 18:12 — mike kraft

A distinguished New Jersey doctor considered a "giant in the field of infectious diseases" has died of COVID-19.

Dr. Rajendra Kapila was a professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and was a founding member of the New Jersey Infectious Disease Society.

The 81-year-old ded in India on April 28, nearly three weeks after testing positive for COVID-19, according to the Hindustan Times.

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Covid-19: Africa scrambles to increase genomic testing capacity as variants spread

Fri, 2021-05-07 17:56 — mike kraft
Covid-19: Africa scrambles to increase genomic testing capacity as variants spread African countries are struggling to bolster genomic sequencing as SARS-CoV-2 variants spread on the continent, reports Abdullahi Tsanni As the world entered 2021, the covid-19 pandemic began a new phase, one dominated by worries over emerging variants. But the way of detecting these threats has not been standardised—even in the UK, where genomic sequencing is relatively frequent, only 5-10% of covid-19 positive cases were being sequenced at the start of the year.1 The spotlight on sequencing has highlighted inequalities in global capacity. Many countries in Africa do not perform sequencing themselves, and those that do only do so on a small scale.
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CDC updates guidances, cites dangers from very fine respiratory droplets

Fri, 2021-05-07 17:34 — mike kraft

Federal health officials on Friday updated public guidance about how the coronavirus spreads, emphasizing that transmission occurs by inhaling very fine respiratory droplets and aerosolized particles, as well as through contact with sprayed droplets or touching contaminated hands to one’s mouth, nose or eyes.

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W.H.O. approves China’s Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use.

Fri, 2021-05-07 11:45 — mike kraft
 

The World Health Organization on Friday approved China’s Sinopharm’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, easing the way for poorer nations to get access to another much-needed shot to help end the pandemic.

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As India sets another record, main opposition leader warns COVID-19 wave also threatens other countries

Fri, 2021-05-07 11:33 — mike kraft
Gandhi warns 'explosive' COVID wave threatens India and the world India's main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi warned on Friday that unless the deadly second COVID-19 wave sweeping the country was brought under control it would devastate India as well as threaten the rest of the world. Anuron Mitra,Nivedita Bhattacharjee Reuters
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India's disaster finds echo in other countries facing COVID-19 surges

Fri, 2021-05-07 11:17 — mike kraft
India's disaster hangs over countries facing COVID-19 surges SOHAG, Egypt (AP) — Countries worldwide wrestling with new coronavirus surges are trying to ensure they aren’t hit by an India-style disaster. They face many of the same risks, including large populations that have shirked restrictions and fragile health systems shaken under the strain... AP NEWS
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Companies Weigh Requiring Vaccines. It is a delicate decision balancing employee health and personal privacy.

Fri, 2021-05-07 10:53 — mike kraft

 

As American companies prepare to bring large numbers of workers back to the office in the coming months, executives are facing one of their most delicate pandemic-related decisions: Should they require employees to be vaccinated?

Take the case of United Airlines. In January, the chief executive, Scott Kirby, indicated at a company town hall that he wanted to require all of his roughly 96,000 employees to get coronavirus vaccines once they became widely available.

“I think it’s the right thing to do,” Mr. Kirby said, before urging other corporations to follow suit.

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