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Analysis: About 10,000 patients contracted COVID-19 while in U.S. hospitals, 21% died.

Fri, 2021-11-05 11:36 — mike kraft

Patients Went Into the Hospital for Care. After Testing Positive There for Covid, Some Never Came Out. About 21% of patients diagnosed with covid during a hospital stay died, according to data analyzed for KHN. In-hospital rates of spread varied widely and patients had no way of checking them. khnchristinaj Kaiser Health News

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Texas voters pass statewide COVID-inspired measures

Wed, 2021-11-03 10:08 — mike kraft

Texas voters pass statewide COVID-inspired measures The COVID-19 pandemic led to a pair of statewide constitutional amendments that passed Tuesday.Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets.

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Judge temporarily blocks Chicago area hospital system from placing vaccine refusers on unpaid leave.

Mon, 2021-11-01 18:29 — mike kraft

Hospital system temporarily blocked from placing workers with A federal judge in Chicago has temporarily blocked a hospital system from placing workers who were granted religious exemptions for getting the COVID-19 vaccine on unpaid leave. Mychael Schnell TheHill

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Federal court rules New York state health care workers will no longer have religious exemption to Covid-19 vaccine mandate

Sat, 2021-10-30 10:05 — mike kraft

New York state health care workers will no longer have religious exemption to Covid-19 vaccine mandate, court rules New York State health care workers will no longer have a religious exemption to the state's Covid-19 vaccine mandate after a federal appeals court vacated a temporary injunction Friday. Rob Frehse, CNN CNN

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U.S hoispital ER's are swamped with seriously ill patients who delayed treatments or seeing doctors because of the pandemic

Fri, 2021-10-29 12:22 — mike kraft

ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have Covid Certain patients who couldn’t get in to see a doctor earlier in the pandemic, or were avoiding the covid risks inside hospitals, have become too sick to stay away. Many ERs now struggle to co… khndamond Kaiser Health News

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The U.S. needs more nurses, but nursing schools don't have enough slots or instructors

Mon, 2021-10-25 11:27 — mike kraft

The U.S. needs more nurses, but nursing schools don't have enough slots Across the country, hospitals are desperate for RNs and specialty nurses. Yet, paradoxically, the nursing pipeline has slowed, with educators retiring or returning to clinical work themselves. NPR.org

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Waiting on U.S. Mandate rules, Some Nursing Homes Are Slow to Vaccinate Staff

Thu, 2021-10-21 11:30 — mike kraft

... nursing homes were not impervious to the highly contagious variant that swept through many states with lower vaccination rates. Ten states, including Florida, Michigan and Ohio, still report vaccination rates for nursing home staff under 60 percent.

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WHO estimate: 115,000 health workers have died from Covid-19, as calls for vaccine access grow

Thu, 2021-10-21 11:17 — mike kraft

An estimated 115,000 health workers have died from Covid-19 Globally, just two in five health care workers are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the WHO said Thursday. Andrew Joseph STAT

Some 115,000 health care workers died from Covid-19 from January 2020 to May of this year, according to a new World Health Organization estimate, as the agency pushed once again for efforts to address vaccine inequity.

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U..S. nurses say morale, energy has hit a pandemic low

Wed, 2021-10-20 17:53 — mike kraft

‘Emotionally, physically, mentally tired’: Nurses say morale has hit a pandemic low Nurses repeatedly call themselves resilient but say they're hitting the limits of that strength. In interviews, they describe plummeting morale during the latest pandemic surge, marked by utter exhaustion and growing workloads. Washington Post

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Record COVID-19 deaths hit Russia, Eastern Europe as region spurns vaccines

Wed, 2021-10-20 12:11 — mike kraft

Lockdowns, record COVID-19 deaths hit Russia, Eastern Europe as region spurns vaccines Russia will shut workplaces for a week, Latvia went back into lockdown for a month and Romanian funeral homes are running out of coffins, as vaccine-sceptic countries across ex-communist Eastern Europe face record-setting disease and deaths. Octav Ganea,Alexander Marrow Reuters

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