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COVID home test results can enhance disease tracking--survey

Wed, 2024-10-02 22:24 — mike kraft

Survey: COVID home test results can enhance disease tracking At least one household member and six healthcare workers who encountered the index case-patient are being investigated after showing symptoms of viral infection. CIDRAP

Online nonprobability survey estimates suggest that 54 million US COVID-19 infections went uncounted in official records after home tests were widely deployed and institutional testing waned starting in February 2022. ...

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Military medical teams sent to New Mexico and six other western and midwestern states

Fri, 2021-12-10 23:07 — mike kraft

Navy medics join COVID fight in hard-hit New Mexico Dozens of U.S. Navy medics have deployed to New Mexico to treat a Delta variant-fueled surge in COVID-19 patients as part of a military operation to treat virus hotspots across Western and Midwest states. Shannon Stapleton Reuters

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Pfizer, US sign $5.29B deal for possible COVID-19 pill treatment

Fri, 2021-11-19 00:25 — mike kraft

Pfizer, US ink $5.29B deal for possible COVID-19 treatment The U.S. government will pay drugmaker Pfizer $5.29 billion for 10 million treatment courses of its potential COVID-19 treatment if regulators authorize it, the nation's largest purchase agreement yet for a coronavirus therapy. AP NEWS

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Pfizer asked the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to authorize emergency use of the experimental pill, which has been shown to significantly cut the rate of hospitalizations and deaths among people with coronavirus infections.

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Burnouts: Michigan COVID nurses reach their limit: ‘I know I can’t do this forever’

Tue, 2021-09-14 22:27 — mike kraft

Michigan COVID nurses reach their limit: ‘I know I can’t do this forever’ | Bridge Michigan Roughly 18 months into a deadly pandemic, hospitals across the state face critical frontline staff shortages, notably among nurses. While traveling nurses command top dollar as fill-ins, staff nurses at major health systems confront feelings of grief, rage and burnout. BridgeMichigan

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The Michigan case: State was warned about the British COVID-19 variant, but many ignored it

Thu, 2021-04-22 06:22 — mike kraft

Michigan was warned about the British COVID-19 variant, but many ignored it While schools and restaurants reopened and mask and quarantine rules were relaxed, the British COVID-19 variant ran rampant in Michigan. YahooNews

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U.S. Covid-19 hospitalizations rising among younger people, Michigan situation worse

Sun, 2021-04-11 23:41 — mike kraft

Covid-19 hospitalizations among younger people are rising in the US -- especially in one region The US just hit a record high of about 4.6 million Covid-19 vaccinations reported administered in one day, according to data published Saturday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN

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Five states account for nearly half of new US coronavirus infections

Wed, 2021-04-07 05:19 — mike kraft

Nearly half of new US virus infections are in just 5 states Nearly half of new coronavirus infections nationwide are in just five states — a situation that is putting pressure on the federal government to consider changing how it distributes vaccines by... AP NEWS

Nearly half of new coronavirus infections nationwide are in just five states — a situation that is putting pressure on the federal government to consider changing how it distributes vaccines by sending more doses to hot spots.

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