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South Carolina giving up on some contact tracing efforts
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's health department says it is giving up on trying to contact trace each individual coronavirus case in the state. The Department of Health and Environmental Control said Thursday that it was switching from a “containment” to a “mitigation”...
Jailhouse nurses suspended following inmate's death
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Two nurses have been suspended for failing to properly care for an inmate who died after being found unresponsive in his cell, a sheriff's office in Ohio said. An internal affairs report released Tuesday by the Lucas County Sheriff's Office upheld internal charges of...
Nurses at Hawaii medical center vote to strike over safety
HONOLULU (AP) — Nurses in Hawaii have voted to authorize a strike over concerns that management practices have endangered staff and patients at an Oahu hospital. Many of the nurses said the hospital’s protocols put staff and patients at unnecessary risk for exposure to COVID-19. The Hawaii Nurses'...
California is desperate, but volunteer health corps dwindles
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California desperately needs more medical workers at facilities swamped by coronavirus patients, but almost no help is coming from a volunteer program that Gov. Gavin Newsom created at the start of the pandemic. An army of 95,000 initially raised their hands, and just 14 are now...
The Latest: 2 Chinese cities urge people to stay at home
BEIJING — Chinese authorities are asking residents in two cities south of Beijing to stay home for seven days as they try to stamp out a coronavirus outbreak in which more than 300 people have tested positive in the past week. According to official notices on social media, the cities of Shijiazhuang and...
For nurses, California's virus outbreak has a personal toll
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — For Caroline Brandenburger, the coronavirus outbreak that has overwhelmed California hospitals comes with a very personal toll. “Just today we had two deaths on this unit. And that’s pretty much the norm,” said Brandenburger, who works on the COVID-19 unit at...
VIRUS TODAY: Pfizer says vaccine can work against variants
Here’s what’s happening Friday with the pandemic in the U.S.: THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY — New research suggests the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech can still work against a mutated coronavirus. Two easier-to-spread new variants of the virus have the world on edge. One was...
California bypasses tough nurse care rules amid virus surge
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nerissa Black was already having a hard time tending to four COVID-19 patients who need constant heart monitoring. But because of staffing shortages affecting hospitals throughout California, her workload recently increased to six people infected with the coronavirus. Black, a...
California virus deaths rocket higher as ICU space tightens
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration and the state’s hospital association are at odds over how best to create space for critically ill coronavirus patients at already strained medical facilities that soon could be overwhelmed by the expected surge of new...
Hospitals say California officials too slow in virus crisis
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California reported its second-highest number of daily coronavirus deaths Wednesday with 459 lives lost, bringing the death toll to 2,504 in the last week as more than a quarter-million new weekly cases portended a continued overwhelming crush on hospitals and intensive care units...
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