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U.S. Pediatricians lobby for more federal help to fight wave of respiratory llnesses

Wed, 2022-11-16 17:34 — mike kraft

Pediatricians beg for more federal help to fight wave of RSV - Roll Call Two medical groups have asked the Biden administration to declare a public health emergency to respond to the glut of respiratory viruses. Roll Call

After two winters spent masked and six feet apart, pediatric respiratory viruses have returned with a vengeance, and pediatric hospitals, emergency room doctors and pediatricians are lobbying Congress and the Biden administration to provide more support.

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Veterans home deaths during COVID-19 outbreak results in $58M settlement

Tue, 2022-11-15 19:19 — mike kraft

Veterans home COVID-19 outbreak results in $58M settlement SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a nearly $58 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed in response to the deaths of dozens of veterans who contracted COVID-19 at a Massachusetts veterans home. AP NEWS

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Biden requests $9.25 bln for COVID, $750 Mln to gihht other disdeases and $37.7 bln for Ukraine from Congress.

Tue, 2022-11-15 18:58 — mike kraft

Biden requests $9.25 bln for COVID, $37.7 bln for Ukraine from Congress -officials The Biden administration is asking Congress for $9.25 billion to fight COVID-19 and an additional $37.7 billion to support Ukraine in its war with Russia as part of a supplemental funding request, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Jeff Mason Reuters

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The U.N. is mulling another mission to Haiti. Haitians are skeptical.

Mon, 2022-11-14 17:59 — mike kraft

The U.N. is mulling another mission to Haiti. Haitians are skeptical. Foreign intervention is a delicate and divisive subject in the beleaguered Caribbean nation. The 2010 cholera outbreak and the U.N. response show why. Washington Post

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housands of U.S. public health experts are losing their jobs at a critical time

Mon, 2022-11-14 17:49 — mike kraft

Thousands of public health experts are losing their jobs at a critical time | CNN As covid-19 raged, roughly 4,000 highly skilled epidemiologists, communication specialists, and public health nurses were hired by a nonprofit tied to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to plug the holes at battered public health departments on the front lines. Lauren Weber,Kaiser Health News CNN

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U.S. faces third Covid winter, without key tools and treatments

Thu, 2022-11-10 08:42 — mike kraft

U.S. set to face third Covid winter without key tools and treatments Already, some hospitals in New York City are planning to stop using certain drugs because resistant Covid variants are spreading, an infectious disease specialist told STAT. Andrew Joseph STAT

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Locations in US of long COVID clinics

Wed, 2022-11-09 12:39 — mike kraft

Where are the long COVID clinics? For people with long COVID, finding a place to get appropriate medical care is a challenge. katie Science News

For the millions of people in the United States with long COVID, getting help comes down to where they live. Long COVID clinics have been popping up, but their accessibility and the kind of care they offer vary wildly.

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Doctors are trying to understand why Covid Patients Coming Off Ventilators Can Take Weeks to Regain Consciousness

Mon, 2022-11-07 18:45 — mike kraft

In March 2020, New York City’s hospitals filled up with patients desperately ill with Covid-19. In many cases, when their fluid-filled lungs could no longer give them oxygen, doctors sedated them and put them on ventilators.

The patients who recovered were taken off the machines and anesthesia. Within a day or so, their doctors expected them to wake up.

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