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Analysis: Covid Deaths Surge Across a Weary America as a Once-Hopeful Summer Ends

Mon, 2021-09-06 15:04 — mike kraft

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A summer that began with plunging caseloads and real hope that the worst of Covid-19 had passed is ending with soaring death counts, full hospitals and a bitter realization that the coronavirus is going to remain a fact of American life for the foreseeable future.

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accination rates are ticking upward, and reports of new infections are starting to fall in some hard-hit Southern states. But Labor Day weekend bears little resemblance to Memorial Day, when the country was averaging fewer than 25,000 cases daily, or to the Fourth of July, when President Biden spoke about nearing independence from the virus.

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New U.S. infections are up 316% from last Labor Day, other developments

Mon, 2021-09-06 14:38 — mike kraft

New infections are up 316% from last Labor Day; physicians face life-or-death decisions on ICU beds: Live COVID-19 updates Daily coronavirus infections are more than four times what the U.S. saw last Labor Day – and daily deaths are almost twice as high. Latest COVID news. Jorge L. Ortiz, Grace Hauck and John Bacon USA TODAY

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COVID-19 pandemic threatens to reverse years of progress made in patient safety, CDC study suggests

Mon, 2021-09-06 13:30 — mike kraft

COVID-19 pandemic threatens to reverse years of progress made in patient safety, CDC study suggests After years of progress reducing health care-associated infections, a CDC study found these types of infections increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY YahooNews

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Mississippi: Hospitals in crisis in least vaccinated state face crisis

Sun, 2021-09-05 22:36 — mike kraft

Hospitals in crisis in least vaccinated state: Mississippi JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — As patients stream into Mississippi hospitals one after another, doctors and nurses have become all too accustomed to the rampant denial and misinformation about COVID-19 in the nation's least vaccinated state. AP NEWS

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U.S. hospital healthcare-associated infections rose in 2020, CDC says

Fri, 2021-09-03 19:27 — mike kraft

Healthcare-associated infections rose in 2020, CDC says After years of decline, US hospitals saw significant increases in HAIs. CIDRAP

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More on U.S. nursing shortages, Nevada situation

Fri, 2021-09-03 10:48 — mike kraft

US hospitals hit with nurse staffing crisis amid COVID The COVID-19 pandemic has created a nurse staffing crisis that is forcing many U.S. hospitals to pay top dollar to get the help they need to handle the crush of patients this summer. The problem, health leaders say, is twofold: Nurses are quitting or retiring, exhausted or demoralized by the crisis. AP NEWS

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a nurse staffing crisis that is forcing many U.S. hospitals to pay top dollar to get the help they need to handle the crush of patients this summer.

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U.S still has not distributed tens of billions of dollars in pandemic aid for hospitals and nursing homes

Thu, 2021-09-02 09:47 — mike kraft

Tens of billions of dollars in pandemic aid for hospitals and nursing homes not distributed The Biden administration has not handed out additional provider-relief money designated by Congress last year. Amy Goldstein Washington Post

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The U.S. reaches a daily average of 100,000 Covid hospitalizations for the first time since the winter peak.

Tue, 2021-08-31 11:56 — mike kraft

The daily average for hospitalized Covid-19 patients in the United States is now more than 100,000 over the last week. That average is higher than in any previous surge except last winter’s, before most Americans were eligible to get vaccinated.

The influx of patients is straining hospitals and pushing health care workers to the brink as deaths have risen to an average of more than 1,000 a day for the first time since March. The seven-day average of Covid hospitalizations peaked in mid-January with nearly 140,000 people hospitalized.

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Five U.S. states, all in the south, have less than 10% of ICU beds left as Covid-19 overwhelms hospitals

Tue, 2021-08-31 09:49 — mike kraft

These 5 states have less than 10% of ICU beds left as Covid-19 overwhelms hospitals As Covid-19 cases surge across the US, particularly among unvaccinated Americans, hospitals have been pushed to their limits treating the influx of patients -- and five states are nearly out of ICU beds. Madeline Holcombe, CNN CNN

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Louisiana hospitals hit by storm evacuate dozens of patients

Mon, 2021-08-30 19:55 — mike kraft

Hurricane Ida victims could swamp Louisiana's already Covid-stretched hospitals (nbcnews.com)

Louisiana’s battered hospitals were bracing for another challenge Monday in the wake of Hurricane Ida — an influx of new patients.

And with services already stretched to capacity by the Covid-19 crisis, the still unanswered question was where to put them.

Gov. John Bel Edwards told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle that he is prioritizing “shoring up our hospitals so they can continue to serve all of their patients and the people who have been injured and haven't been able to get to the hospital yet because of something that happened during the storm.” ...

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