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The Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday that it will extend a federal mask mandate for airline, bus and train passengers into next year, requiring the face coverings until Jan. 18, 2022.

The mandate — issued in the first days after President Biden took office — was never relaxed, even during the early-summer months when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began telling fully vaccinated people that masks were generally no longer necessary.

While a CDC order imposing the transportation requirement has no end date, TSA enforcement rules had been set to expire Sept. 13.
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Shortages now of home oxygen equipment.

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'Nursing Is in Crisis’: Staff Shortages Put Patients at Risk
Cyndy O’Brien, an emergency room nurse at Ocean Springs Hospital on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, could not believe her eyes as she arrived for work. There were people sprawled out in their cars gasping for air as three ambulances with gravely ill patients idled in the parking lot. Just inside the front doors, a crush of anxious people jostled to get the attention of an overwhelmed triage nurse.

“It’s like a war zone,” said Ms. O’Brien, who is the patient care coordinator at Singing River, a small health system near the Alabama border that includes Ocean Springs. “We are just barraged with patients and have nowhere to put them.”

The bottleneck, however, has little to do with a lack of space. Nearly 30 percent of Singing River’s 500 beds are empty. With 169 unfilled nursing positions, administrators must keep the beds empty.
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"We’re exhausted, both physically and emotionally,” Ms. O’Brien said, choking back tears.

Like hospital leaders across much of the South, Lee Bond, the chief executive of Singing River, has been struggling to stanch the loss of nurses over the past year. Burnout and poaching by financially flush health systems have hobbled hospitals during the worst public health crisis in living memory.

With just over a third of Mississippi residents fully vaccinated, Mr. Bond is terrified things will worsen in the coming weeks as schools reopen and Gov. Tate Reeves doubles down on his refusal to reinstate mask mandates. “Our nurses are at their wits’ end,” Mr. Bond said. “They are tired, overburdened, and they feel like forgotten soldiers.”
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The staffing shortages have a hospital-wide domino effect. When hospitals lack nurses to treat those who need less intensive care, emergency rooms and I.C.U.s are unable to move out patients, creating a traffic jam that limits their ability to admit new ones. One in five I.C.U.s are at least 95 percent capacity, according to an analysis by The New York Times, a level experts say makes it difficult to maintain standards of care for the very sick.

“When hospitals are understaffed, people die,” said Patricia Pittman, director of the Health Workforce Research Center at George Washington University.

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Texas Emergency Hospital, a small health system near Houston that employs 150 nurses and has 50 unfilled shifts each week, has been losing experienced nurses to recruiters who offer $20,000 signing bonuses and $140-an-hour wages. Texas Emergency, by contrast, pays its nurses $43 an hour with a $2 stipend for those on the night shift. “That’s ridiculous money, which gives you a sense of how desperate everyone is,” said Patti Foster, the chief operations officer of the system, which runs two emergency rooms in Cleveland, Texas, that are over capacity.

Ms. Foster sighed when asked whether the hospital offered signing bonuses. The best she can do is pass out goody bags filled with gum, bottled water and a letter of appreciation that includes online resources for those overwhelmed by the stress of the past few weeks.
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There were more than three million nurses in the United States in 2019, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which estimates 176,000 annual openings for registered nurses across the country in the next few years. But those projections were issued before the pandemic.

Peter Buerhaus, an expert on the economics of the nursing work force at Montana State University, is especially rattled by two data points: A third of the nation’s nurses were born during the baby boom years, with 640,000 nearing retirement; and the demographic bulge of aging boomers needing intensive medical care will only increase the demand for hospital nurses. “I’m raising the yellow flag because a sudden withdrawal of so many experienced nurses would be disastrous for hospitals,” he said.

Many experts fear the exodus will accelerate as the pandemic drags on and burnout intensifies. Multiple surveys suggest that nurses are feeling increasingly embattled: the unrelenting workloads, the moral injury caused by their inability to provide quality care, and dismay as emergency rooms fill with unvaccinated patients, some of whom brim with hostility stoked by misinformation. Nurses, too, are angry — that so many Americans have refused to get vaccinated. “They feel betrayed and disrespected,” Professor Buerhaus said.

Increasing the nation’s nursing workforce is no easy task. The United States is producing about 170,000 nurses a year, but 80,000 qualified applicants were rejected in 2019 because of a lack of teaching staff, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

“We can’t graduate nurses fast enough, but even when they do graduate, they are often not prepared to provide the level of care that’s most needed right now,”
said Dr. Katie Boston-Leary, director of nursing programs at the American Nurses Association. Newly minted nurses, she added, require on-the-job education from more seasoned ones, placing additional strains on hospital resources.
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The crisis is on full display at Texas Emergency Hospital, which has been treating patients in hallways and tapping administrators to run specimens to the lab. In recent days, 90 percent of those admitted to the hospital have tested positive for the coronavirus. Short on ventilators, and with hospitals in Houston no longer able to take their most critically ill patients, officials have been contemplating the unthinkable: how to ration care.

On Friday, Cassie Kavanaugh, the chief nursing officer for the hospital’s network, was dealing with additional challenges: Ten nurses were out sick with Covid. She had no luck renting ventilators or other breathing machines for her Covid patients. Many of the new arrivals are in their 30s and 40s and far sicker than those she saw during previous surges. “This is a whole different ballgame,” she said.

Ms. Kavanaugh, too, was running on fumes, having worked 60 hours as a staff nurse over the previous week on top of her administrative duties. She was also emotionally wrought after seeing co-workers and relatives admitted to her hospital. And her anguish only mounted after she stopped at the grocery store: Almost no one, she said, was wearing masks.

“I don’t know how much more we can take,” she said. “But one thing that hit me hard today is a realization: If things keep going the way they are, we’re going to lose people for sure, and as a nurse, that’s almost too much to bear.”
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Bad. Very very bad. :eek:
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https://news.yahoo.com/eu-moves-reintro ... 45729.html

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union on Friday moved to reinstate COVID travel restrictions like quarantine and testing requirements for unvaccinated citizens of the United States and five other countries, two diplomats told Reuters.

EU countries started a procedure to remove the United States from a list of countries whose citizens can travel to the 27-nation bloc without additional COVID restrictions.

The non-binding list currently has 23 countries on it, including Japan, Qatar and Ukraine, but some of the 27 EU countries already have their own limits on U.S. travellers in place.
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8 ... a-and-fear
COVID-19 isn't the only public health crisis amped up by misinformation, stigma, and fear

Given how much misinformation and hysteria is in the air about COVID-19 precautions and risks, it’s not too surprising that Americans in general struggle with public health education. A new survey conducted by GLAAD in January 2021 suggests that a considerable number of Americans are uneducated when it comes to HIV, as covered by LGBTQ Nation. And not just ignorant—frankly, prejudiced.

The online survey, funded by Gilead Sciences, examined responses from more than 2,500 adults in the United States and focused on how participants viewed HIV. A disturbing number of non-LGBTQ+ participants admitted they would feel uncomfortable if a teacher, hairdresser, or physician in their life was living with HIV.
Medicine has really moved forward when it comes to treating HIV and AIDS, and even when it comes to preventing a person from contracting HIV via sexual intercourse. Sadly, many adults (apparently) don’t know this, as less than 70% of respondents said they realized medications exist to protect people from contracting the virus. Less than 50% of respondents realized people who live with HIV could not pass the virus on if they’re on effective treatment, like PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis).

Though disappointing, perhaps this response isn’t surprising, given that less than half of participants described themselves as being knowledgeable about HIV. People who live in the midwest and south were most likely to report feeling uncomfortable around people living with HIV compared to people in the west and northeast, including the more than 50% of non-queer folks who said they would feel uncomfortable with a medical professional who lives with HIV. About one-third of respondents said they’d feel uncomfortable interacting with a teacher who lives with HIV. More than 40% said they’d be uncomfortable having a hairstylist or barber who lives with the virus.

As perhaps one of the only uplifting points of the 2021 State of HIV Stigma Study, more than 50% of non-LGBTQ respondents report seeing more stories about living with HIV in the media, which is an increase from GLAAD’s 2020 data.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-h ... ar-AAO7Sfz
The country has recorded 40,000,070 cases and 651,690 deaths, according to the latest NBC News tally. On Sunday, the U.S. recorded 35,355 news cases and 279 deaths.

The milestone comes as almost more than 207 million people have received their first dose and more than 175 million people have been fully vaccinated.

There has been a slow uptick in vaccination rates since July, but still no state or territory has passed the 70 percent fully vaccinated threshold among its population, and the country is nowhere close to its peak in April of more than 3 million people getting a shot each day.
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A New Hampshire state representative “reluctantly” switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democratic on Tuesday, citing state Republicans’ opposition to masks and coronavirus vaccines.

Rep. William Marsh said party extremists are edging out moderates like him, and that he had planned quietly to retire but felt his hand was forced by what he called Republicans’ refusal to take reasonable health precautions.

“Politics, I'm afraid, is a team sport,” he told The Washington Post. “You’ve got to work with other people, and if nobody's interested in what you have to say, you might as well go home.”
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Throughout the pandemic, fears about the coronavirus have driven many people to skip doctors’ appointments and avoid hospitals. Now, with the highly contagious delta variant surging across the United States, those worries may be resurfacing. But doctors say that risk can be managed with vaccinations and other safety measures, and there are potentially greater consequences to delaying medical care.

“There are individuals who, with rising rates of covid-19 infection, have been hesitant about coming to the doctor’s office, and that has allowed for missed opportunities to identify a disease early on or to achieve optimal control over chronic diseases,” said Michael Knight, a primary care physician and the associate chief quality and population health officer with the George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates.

Whether it’s time for a routine visit with your primary care physician or you have a medical emergency that needs immediate attention, here are tips for deciding when to see a doctor, where to go for treatment and how to try to stay safe.
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A sea of more than 650,000 white flags is lining the National Mall near the Washington monument in the nation’s capitol to represent the American lives lost so far to Covid-19.

The outdoor art installation titled, In America: Remember, by social practice artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, is scheduled to stand for 17 days from Friday in the shadow of the White House.

“When the numbers get so large, it becomes difficult to really understand them. So, I, as a visual artist, wanted to make the number physical,” the 62-year old artist told ABC News. “I wanted to physically manifest it.”

The white flags will serve as a canvas for family and friends to feature messages remembering the lives of their loved ones.
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American Samoa reported its first coronavirus case, 18 months into the pandemic, after a traveler tested positive after flying to the U.S. territory from Hawaii.

The positive case was discovered during a quarantine period required upon arrival in American Samoa. The traveler was fully vaccinated, according to a news release published Friday by American Samoa’s Department of Homeland Security, and the positive result was confirmed by the Health Department Thursday. Officials say the individual tested negative before traveling. The traveler was asymptomatic when tested, according to the news release, and will continue to be monitored.

“The discovery of this positive case during quarantine highlights the importance of why our process is critical to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” Gov. Lemanu Mauga (D) said in a statement. “It further highlights the importance of maintaining our current quarantine protocols.” Mauga was among the passengers on the Monday flight from Hawaii and is in quarantine, according to the Associated Press.
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A Colorado-based health system says it is denying organ transplants to patients not vaccinated against the coronavirus in “almost all situations,” citing studies that show these patients are much more likely to die if they get covid-19.

he policy illustrates the growing costs of being unvaccinated and wades into deeply controversial territory — the use of immunization status to decide who gets limited medical care. The mere idea of prioritizing the vaccinated for rationed health resources has drawn intense backlash, as overwhelmingly unvaccinated covid-19 patients push some hospitals to adopt “crisis standards of care,” in which health systems can prioritize patients for scarce resources based largely on their likelihood of survival.

UCHealth’s rules for transplants entered the spotlight Tuesday when Colorado state Rep. Tim Geitner (R) said it denied a kidney transplant to a Colorado Springs woman because she was not vaccinated against the coronavirus. Calling the decision “disgusting” and discriminatory, Geitner shared a letter that he said the patient received last week from UCHealth’s transplant center at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus in the city of Aurora.

The letter said the woman would be “inactivated” on a kidney transplant waiting list and had 30 days to start coronavirus vaccination. If she refused to be vaccinated, it said, she would be removed.

UCHealth declined to discuss particular patients because of federal privacy laws, and The Washington Post could not independently verify the woman’s story. But the health system confirmed Tuesday that nearly all of its transplant recipients and organ donors must get vaccinated against the coronavirus, in addition to other vaccinations and health requirements. A spokesman, Dan Weaver, said that other transplant centers in the United States have similar policies or are transitioning to them.
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IMHO a correct decision when handling scarce resources, here transplant parts. Patients get to live with medicines that suppress autoimmune reation that prevent the new tissue from getting rejected. While I am not a biologist nor a MD, I belive that is the reason why these patients are at risk to covid when not vaccinated in advance. Note also that it seems the patient reported did not seem to reject other kinds of vaccination.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... -caregiver
While the US has been engulfed in a heated battle to prevent people from contracting and dying from Covid-19, another pandemic has been raging behind closed doors among children who have lost one or both parents, or their caregivers, to Covid.

A new study, published on Thursday in the journal Pediatrics, estimated that from April 2020 through June 30 this year, more than 140,000 children under the age of 18 lost their mother, father, or grandparent who provided their housing, basic needs and daily care to the disease.

The study reveals that Covid is not only disproportionately killing adults from communities of color, but the children in these communities are bearing the brunt of the aftershock of this “hidden pandemic” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (Nida), which co-funded the study.

Although people of racial and ethnic minority groups make up 39% of the US population, the study shows approximately 65% of minority Hispanic, Black, Asian and American Indian/Alaska Native children have lost a primary caregiver as a result of Covid. Thirty-five percent of white children have also lost a primary caregiver.
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A large study of Pfizer’s experimental antiviral pill, paxlovid, has found that the drug can cut hospitalisations and deaths from Covid by nearly 90%, the company has said.

The US firm’s encouraging results, which are described in a press release but not yet peer-reviewed, suggest oral pills that can be taken at home are poised to take an increasing burden off hospitals that are still overstretched with Covid patients.

The company released the study data on Friday, a day after the UK medicines regulator announced it had approved molnupiravir (Lagevrio), a drug developed by Ridgeback Biotherapeutics and Merck Sharp and Dohme, as the first oral antiviral pill for Covid.

Under deals announced in October, the UK expects to receive 480,000 doses of molnupiravir this year, with 250,000 courses of paxlovid due in late January. Paxlovid is a combination of an antiviral drug with ritonavir, a drug usually used to treat HIV/Aids.
Although too many people are still dying of Covid, it does seem as if there are a lot of options for treatment now. Too bad more people aren't taking advantage of the option for prevention.
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Volkonski wrote: Sun Aug 22, 2021 10:42 am Bad. Very very bad. :eek:
For those who weren't here at the time, Volkonski was the first person here to alert us to the coming pandemic, and his first post on the subject was on January 9th, 2020, weeks before the national media finally began to pay serious attention to it. :shock:

That thread, alas, was lost when our hosting company messed up the original Fogbow, but I had committed the date to memory because it was so impressive. If you were reading Fogbow, thanks to V and lots of other people here, you saw this thing coming and had more notice, and hence, more time to prepare and plan for how you and your family would survive the deadly pandemic, more time than 95% of your fellow Earthlings. And as a result, 750,000 Americans are dead (probably more), but AFAIK, nobody on this forum has passed from the virus.

I don't celebrate anyone's death, but I sure as hell celebrate our membership staying alive. ;)

That happens more often than you think around this joint. I am humbled to be a part of it. :smoking:
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If you were reading Fogbow, thanks to V and lots of other people here, you saw this thing coming and had more notice, and hence, more time to prepare and plan for how you and your family would survive the deadly pandemic, more time than 95% of your fellow Earthlings. And as a result, 750,000 Americans are dead (probably more), but AFAIK, nobody on this forum has passed from the virus.
That's absolutely true. I remember being out there and stocking up and starting to prepare when no one else around me was.
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