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Volkonski wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 4:34 pm https:// twitter.com/dallasnews/status/1478839981246459908

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Nearly 200 Dallas police and Fire-Rescue workers quarantined in latest COVID-19 surge

St. Louis area hospitals are getting “crushed” by the highest number of COVID patients they’ve seen yet in the pandemic, hospital leaders said in a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.

And those patients are on track to double in the next couple weeks, according to projections from the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, which includes the area’s four largest healthcare systems.

Adding to their panic are unprecedented staffing shortages, limited access to antiviral therapies and the fact that communities are facing intense pushback against mitigation measures, such as masking and vaccines, despite the omicron variant being more transmissible than previous strains of COVID-19.

The St. Louis hospital leaders echoed the panic that their counterparts in Kansas City and western Missouri hospitals expressed in a press conference earlier Wednesday.

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A Rhode Island hospital is dealing with a Covid-19 outbreak with patients after it asked staff who had tested positive, but were asymptomatic, to come in due to a staffing shortage.

“There’s no more backup plans. This is it. We are in a crisis. The hospital systems will collapse.”

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Dr. Snedecor told reporters both admitting physicians at her hospital for the weekend shift are currently out with COVID. Staff is stretched so thin, the hospital doesn't who who will be there to admit patients this weekend.

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A Rhode Island hospital is dealing with a Covid-19 outbreak with patients after it asked staff who had tested positive, but were asymptomatic, to come in due to a staffing shortage.

Hospitals having covid-related problems all over.

Maine CDC director Nirav Shah addresses questions about the pandemic, particularly about vaccine hesitancy

Maine CDC director Nirav Shah joins us for a program that focuses on those who choose not to get vaccinated against Covid-19. He’ll address the reasons for their skepticism and answer questions and comments about vaccines and the latest pandemic news.

Dr. Shah to the unvaccinated: It’s time we talked
Rather than condemn those who eschew COVID-19 shots, a Maine Public call-in show this week welcomed them with open arms.

And the winner of the 2022 Pandemic Persuasion Award goes to … Dr. Nirav Shah.

Monday morning, as he has so many times since COVID-19 first hijacked our lives two years ago, the director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention took an hour out of his busy day to appear on “Maine Calling,” the daily call-in program on Maine Public hosted by Jennifer Rooks.

Normally when Shah does these and other appearances, he touches on a wide array of issues – the latest research, the ever-escalating numbers of Mainers who are sick, hospitalized or deceased, the crushing burden on our schools, our hospitals and places of business.

But this time was different. Monday’s program, at the good doctor’s request, focused on people who after all this time are still not vaccinated. The goal was not to condemn them, caricature them or, as many of us can’t help but do, complain about their role in prolonging this public health nightmare.

Rather, Shah simply wanted to listen to them. And, brave man that he is, tackle their demons one by one.

It was must-hear radio – a master class in the art of gentle persuasion. If you didn’t tune in live, it’s well worth a replay online.

As a Covid-19 testing shortage compounds a burgeoning crisis of new hospitalizations, more states are racing to help hospitals and health care networks with staff and supplies.

Staffing shortages are growing as frontline health care workers -- who are at a higher risk of exposure -- are infected and need to quarantine at a time when the spread of the Omicron variant is driving more people to hospitals.

In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom said late Friday that more than 200 National Guard members will be deployed to dozens of testing sites, joining other states that have mobilized National Guard members for medical and non-medical tasks to help overburdened health care facilities.

"It really is, right now, a viral blizzard because there's a lot of infections," said Dr. Samer Antonios, chief clinical officer at Ascension Via Christi Health in Kansas, where Gov. Laura Kelly signed a state of disaster emergency this week due to Covid-19 challenges.

Scott Miscovich, president of Premier Medical Group, was critical of the state’s handling of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 variant during a livestreamed interview Friday with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, saying it will have more severe impacts than people seem to be giving it credit for.

“From the very beginning, we used the word ‘mild’ to describe omicron,” Miscovich said. “That has led to something planting in people’s brains to think, ‘Well, it’s mild, so I don’t have to worry about it.’”

However, Miscovich said, for people who have not been immunized against COVID-19 — whether through a vaccine or through contracting the virus previously — “(omicron) will kill you just like any other variety of COVID.”



“We have not yet come to grips with long-term COVID,” Miscovich said. “We are disabling massive amounts of our population. We’re looking at that one little metric of 300, 400 (hospitalizations), but we can have 100,000 people infected, and … 8% will be permanently disabled.”

President Joe Biden will deploy military medical teams to hospitals in six states where COVID-19 infections are surging.

Teams of doctors, nurses and clinical personnel will be sent as early as next week to New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico, Biden is expected to announce on Thursday alongside Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell.

Biden in December directed the defense secretary to ready 1,000 military medical personnel to deploy to hospitals across the country as needed in January and February. The teams now being readied will be the first to start arriving at hospitals.

They'll be sent to Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, Henry Ford Hospital near Detroit, University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque and University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.

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p0rtia wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 4:50 pm New York breaththrough-case hospitalizations through Jan 10 2020


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That's a very powerful graphic.