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Idaho Hospitals Begin Rationing Health Care Amid COVID-19 Surge
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated “crisis standards of care” allowing health care rationing for the state’s northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare quietly enacted the move Monday and publicly announced it in a statement Tuesday morning — warning residents that they may not get the care they would normally expect if they need to be hospitalized. The move came as the state’s confirmed coronavirus cases skyrocketed in recent weeks. Idaho has one...
Source: TIME: Health - September 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: REBECCA BOONE/Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news

Governors Complain Over Pace of COVID-19 Vaccine Shipments
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and DAVID CRARY Associated Press Governors bitterly accused the Trump administration Friday of deceiving the states about the amount of COVID-19 vaccine they can expect to receive as they ramp up vaccinations for senior citizens and others. But the government attributed the anger to confusion and misguided expectations on the part of the states. Meanwhile, the race between the vaccine and the virus may be about to heat up: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the new, more infectious variant first seen in Britain will probably become the dominant vers...
Source: JEMS Operations - January 16, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Coronavirus Source Type: news

People Are Finally Downloading COVID-19 Exposure Notification Apps. Will They Make a Difference?
In the early weeks of the U.S. COVID-19 outbreak this spring, technologists pushed forward an idea to help bring the spread of the new virus under control: smartphones could notify users who had potentially been exposed to others with COVID-19, transforming millions of devices into the world’s most efficient army of public health contact tracers. Big tech got on board, with Apple and Google jointly releasing software in May that enabled state and national public health departments to build such “exposure notification” (EN) apps. But as the pandemic burned through the country, slow development, sparse publ...
Source: TIME: Health - December 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alejandro de la Garza Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Detection and Genetic Characterization of Community-Based SARS-CoV-2 Infections - New York City, March 2020.
H, Liu D, Singh V, Burns J, Prasad N, CDC COVID-19 Surge Laboratory Group;, Sell J Abstract To limit introduction of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the United States restricted travel from China on February 2, 2020, and from Europe on March 13. To determine whether local transmission of SARS-CoV-2 could be detected, the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) conducted deidentified sentinel surveillance at six NYC hospital emergency departments (EDs) during March 1-20. On March 8, while testing availability for SARS-CoV-2 was still limited, DOHMH ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - July 16, 2020 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Bushman D, Alroy KA, Greene SK, Keating P, Wahnich A, Weiss D, Pathela P, Harrison C, Rakeman J, Langley G, Tong S, Tao Y, Uehara A, Queen K, Paden CR, Szymczak W, Orner EP, Nori P, Lai PA, Jacobson JL, Singh HK, Calfee DP, Westblade LF, Vasovic LV, Rand Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: research

CDC Wants Doctors To Look Out For Mystery Illness In Kids That May Be Linked To Coronavirus
(CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to release an alert warning doctors to be on the lookout for a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in children that could be linked to coronavirus infection, a CDC spokesman told CNN Tuesday. The syndrome, marked by persistent fever, inflammation, poor function in one or more organs, and other symptoms similar to shock, was first reported by New York officials. More states began reporting diagnoses of the syndrome this week. An informal panel of pediatricians organized by Boston Children’s Hospital have dubbed the mysterious illness “Pedia...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - May 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Featured Health Syndicated CBSN Boston Boston Children's Hospital CNN Coronavirus Source Type: news

Will Coronavirus Be the Death or Salvation of Big Plastic?
It was supposed to be a blockbuster moment for the U.S. plastic industry. With an abundance of cheap natural gas at hand, thanks to the country’s fracking boom, U.S. energy giants were pouring billions of dollars into building new plants to turn that gas into plastic. As the world was poised to slowly turn away from fossil fuels as an energy source, plastic seemed to be a feasible replacement and possibly even a potential cash cow—overseas, demand for plastic was projected to explode in the coming decades. But the rosy projections may not be panning out. With the oil industry in freefall, and a pandemic grippin...
Source: TIME: Science - May 4, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Zoë Schlanger Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Source Type: news

Hundreds Asked to Self-Quarantine in D.C. After Possible COVID-19 Exposure at Church
(WASHINGTON) — Several hundred people are being asked to self-quarantine after potential exposure to the first confirmed case of the new coronavirus in the nation’s capital, identified as the rector of a prominent Episcopal church. District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that anyone who entered Christ Church Georgetown on Feb. 24 or between Feb. 28 and March 3 is requested to self-quarantine for two weeks from the date of their entrance to the church. Officials on Saturday had announced the district’s first positive test, but identified the victim only as a man in his 50s. A second local posi...
Source: TIME: Health - March 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ASHRAF KHALIL / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 onetime Source Type: news