RALEIGH Several hospitals in the Triangle say they will require their employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, changing a policy of voluntary inoculation that’s been in place since the vaccines became available last winter. All three Duke Health hospitals and UNC Health Hospitals in Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Siler City and […]
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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 […]
Hospitals are overwhelmed by the surge in COVID patients infected with the delta variant. Kyle Green AP In the year and a half since its savage debut in the United States, the coronavirus pandemic has stretched our healthcare system nearly to the breaking point. Florida has a workforce shortage that […]
ECMO is the highest level of life support — beyond a ventilator, which pumps oxygen via a tube through the windpipe into the lungs. Instead, the ECMO process basically functions as a heart and lungs outside of the body — routing the blood via tubing to a machine that oxygenates […]
click to enlarge TajPharmaImages | Wikimedia Commons via Arizona Mirror Ivermectin, a drug approved by the FDA to treat intestinal diseases and roundworms in humans, has become popular among vaccine skeptics as alleged alternative treatment for COVID-19, despite a lack of evidence […]
For weeks, a new wave of COVID-19 cases has surged through the Gulf Coast region, threatening health care capacity and emergency services across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Now, with Hurricane Ida making landfall, the region could see a collision of two public health emergencies in areas still grappling with the […]
Hospital officials around the state are watching Indiana’s COVID-19 numbers – and not liking what they’re seeing. As of Tuesday, COVID hospitalizations in Indiana had crossed the 1,500 line for the first time since early February with no sign of a decrease in the future. That’s only slightly under half of […]
When health officials in Austin and elsewhere in Texas saw an approaching COVID-19 surge last month, they sent urgent requests to the governor’s emergency operations team to bolster the number of nurses and staff. They had every reason to believe that more health care workers would soon fill hospital hallways. But as […]
CONCORD – The New Hampshire Hospital Association released a statement Tuesday supporting hospitals and other health care facilities that mandate COVID vaccinations for their employees. Many hospitals in New Hampshire are heading in that direction, including Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover as well as Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, the state’s largest medical care […]
Georgia public health officials and the CDC said they do not track vaccination rates for frontline workers at hospitals and nursing homes. ExploreHow hospitals are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic Vaccine resistance among health care workers is no surprise, said Dr. Harry Greenspun, chief medical officer for Guidehouse, a management […]