Long COVID-19 is keeping between 2 million and 4 million Americans out of work, resulting in about $170 billion in lost wages annually, according to a new report. The report from the Brookings Institution estimates that 16 million “working-age” Americans between the ages of 18-65 currently have long COVID. “If […]
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Maine is among a handful of states that do not hold in style elections for thus-called “constitutional officers.” Instead, the state constitution calls for the positions to be elected by the Legislature, and the positions are usually stuffed by members of the bulk get together. A invoice that would have […]
SAN JOSE — In the Emergency Department at East San Jose’s Regional Medical Center, beds spill into the corridors. The waiting room is nearly full and, as the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic surges, so is the COVID ward on the second floor. In the Intensive Care Unit during […]
Brandon Hudgins works the main floor at Fleet Feet, a running-shoe store chain, for more than 30 hours a week. He chats with customers, measuring their feet and dashing in and out of the storage area to locate right-sized shoes. Sometimes, clients drag their masks down while speaking. Others refuse […]
© Inquam Photos/tvmneant.ro/Flavius Corfu/Reuters Firefighters at the hospital in Piatra Neamt, Romania, on November 14, 2020. Inquam Photos/tvmneant.ro/Flavius Corfu/Reuters A fire killed 10 COVID-19 patients in a Romanian hospital, and badly hurt a doctor who tried to rescue them, according to multiple reports. The doctor who stayed to try and […]
CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Lauren Zalay and her colleagues at University Associates in Dentistry in Chicago’s Loop use a lot of personal protective equipment each week. © Provided by RADIO.COM “We probably go through 900 gloves a week, 20 to 30 gowns a day and hundreds of masks a week,” […]
CARACAS, Venezuela—Leaning against a hospital wall for balance, Elena Suazo wiggled each foot into blue protective pants. Then she slipped her arms into a surgical gown and snapped on white rubber gloves, finally ready to enter the COVID-19 wing. Suazo is not a nurse. She is a cafeteria worker at […]
In July, Pfizer and BioNTech initiated a late-stage clinical trial on a coronavirus vaccine. Half of the people got the vaccine, while the other half got a placebo of salt water. The companies then waited for people to get sick to determine if the vaccine offered any protection. So far, […]
News Monday that a vaccine developed by Pfizer and partner BioNTech has proved 90% effective at providing protection from Covid-19 may encourage people to begin adjusting plans for the spring, said epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, who has been appointed as a coronavirus adviser to President-elect Joe Biden. But he warned that […]
An iron will, You Tube and a huge dose of love can accomplish just about anything, as David Parkinson has just demonstrated. A British-born immigrant, David describes himself is the least handy man alive. Yet he managed to single-handedly turn a steel shipping container into an airy state-of-the-art gym, so […]
When Darius Settles died from COVID-19 on the Fourth of July, his family and the city of Nashville, Tennessee, were shocked. Even the mayor noted the passing of a 30-year-old without any underlying conditions — one of the city’s youngest fatalities at that point. Settles was also uninsured and had […]
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Sherri Dayton, a nurse at Backus Hospital and president of the Backus Federation of Nurses, addressed the crowd outside the hospital Tuesday. This story was updated on October 13 at 11:50 a.m. More than 400 nurses from Backus Hospital went on strike for two days, beginning […]
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government’s “Eat out to help out” discount scheme to boost spending at restaurants, cafes and pubs over the summer helped spread the coronavirus and contributed to a second wave of infections, according to a new study. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, […]
ZURICH/GENEVA (Reuters) – Coronavirus infections rose by 9,207 and hospitalisations by 279, data here from Swiss health authorities showed on Friday, as the country’s health care and contract tracing systems struggled to manage a second wave of COVID-19 cases. FILE PHOTO: A poster reading “How we protect ourselves. Stop Corona. […]
A COVID-19 cluster involving 15 staff members at Holyoke Medical Center in western Massachusetts probably started in a break room, the hospital’s chief executive said. “We traced it back to employees eating a meal together in a break room, and obviously when you eat a meal you take your mask […]
A sprawling convention center in El Paso will act as a makeshift hospital starting this week, as the southern Texas city grapples with spiking COVID-19 cases and a subsequent surge in hospitalizations related to the disease. © Sergio Flores/Getty Voters cast ballots at an in-person polling site in Austin, Texas, […]
Albany County’s COVID-19 numbers continue to rise, with yet another death blamed on the virus. Albany County Executive Dan McCoy on Saturday said a woman in her 90s, who was a resident of an undisclosed congregate setting, died. She is the 140th person in the county to succumb since the […]
Kenneth P. Moritsugu Published 11:00 p.m. ET Oct. 22, 2020 Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the upcoming election, people are tuning into the news to hear the latest numbers on both, yet when it comes to COVID-19, there is another set of numbers that Americans should be aware of: the toll […]