Clinical

Covid Cases Plummet 83 Percent Among Nursing Home Staffers Despite Vaccine Hesitancy

Mar 16, 2021 at 01:40 am by pj

  By Melissa Bailey and Shoshana Dubnow, Kaiser Health News Joan Phillips, a certified nursing assistant in a Florida nursing home, loved her job but dre.... Read More

Did CDC Delays in Up-To-Date Masking Advice Cost Health Workers’ Lives?

Mar 16, 2021 at 01:31 am by pj

  By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News Since the start of the pandemic, the most terrifying task in health care was thought to be when a doctor put a breathing.... Read More

One Year In: How Covid’s Toll Compares With Other Causes of Death

Mar 11, 2021 at 12:04 pm by pj

  By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact, Kaiser Health News Now that the coronavirus has been in the United States for roughly a year, new numbers are revealing the scale.... Read More

High Obesity Rates in Southern States Magnify Covid Threat

Mar 11, 2021 at 11:58 am by pj

  By Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News  In January, as Mississippi health officials planned for their incoming shipments of covid-19 vaccine, they assesse.... Read More

Testing Quarantined Students Before Returning to School Helps Prevent Asymptomatic Cases from Re-entering Classroom

Mar 11, 2021 at 10:23 am by pj

  By Jill Pease Many high school students on day nine or later of their COVID-19 quarantine period tested positive for the virus, a University of Florida study publishe.... Read More

What Childhood Vaccine Rates Can, and Can’t, Teach Us About Covid Vaccines

Mar 11, 2021 at 12:50 am by pj

  By Rae Ellen Bichell, Kaiser Health News   Polls show Americans are increasingly interested in getting vaccinated against covid-19, but such surveys are l.... Read More

Without a Pandemic Safety Net, Immigrants Living in US Illegally Fall Through the Cracks

Mar 09, 2021 at 09:47 am by pj

  By LJ Dawson, Kaiser Health News Ana’s 9-year-old son was the first in the family to come down with symptoms that looked like covid-19 last March. Soon aft.... Read More

Push Is On for States to Ban Organ Transplant Discrimination

Mar 08, 2021 at 07:48 pm by pj

  By Sara Reardon, Kaiser Health News Griffin Dalrymple is an energetic 7-year-old who loves going to school in Eureka, Montana. But two years ago, the boy describ.... Read More

AdventHealth, Seminole County Open Doors of Innovative Treatment Center for Opioid Addiction

Mar 08, 2021 at 03:45 pm by pj

    The Hope & Healing Center in Sanford, part of a wide-ranging partnership between AdventHealth and Seminole County to address the opioid crisis, offers a ra.... Read More

Pandemic Fatigue: Its Real and Affecting Us All 

Mar 06, 2021 at 12:19 am by pj

  By APRIL BOYKIN   Exhausted? Distracted? Experiencing brain fog?  Sad or lonely?  A year into the pandemic and we are all frayed around the edges. Dis.... Read More

Coronavirus Deranges the Immune System in Complex and Deadly Ways

Mar 04, 2021 at 04:07 pm by pj

  Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News  There’s a reason soldiers go through basic training before heading into combat: Without careful instruction, green recruits.... Read More

Reopening of Long-Term Care Facilities Is ‘an Absolute Necessity for Our Well-Being’

Mar 04, 2021 at 03:58 pm by pj

  By Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News For nearly a year, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been mostly closed to visitors. Now, it’s time for t.... Read More

Accidentally Trashed, Thawed or Expired: Reports of Covid Vaccine Spoilage

Mar 04, 2021 at 03:51 pm by pj

  By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Kaiser Health News As the speed of covid vaccinations picks up, so do the reports of doses going to waste. And it&rs.... Read More

Children’s Hospitals Grapple With Young Covid ‘Long Haulers’

Mar 04, 2021 at 03:42 pm by pj

  By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News    A slumber party to celebrate Delaney DePue’s 15th birthday last summer marked a new chapter &.... Read More

When Your Chance for a Covid Shot Comes, Don’t Worry About the Numbers

Mar 01, 2021 at 10:02 pm by pj

  By Arthur Allen and Liz Szabo,  Kaiser Health News    When getting vaccinated against covid-19, there’s no sense being picky.... Read More

Rabies Alert Issued for East Orlando

Feb 26, 2021 at 05:09 pm by pj

    ORLANDO – The Florida Department of Health in Orange County is issuing a rabies alert for east Orlando. This rabies alert is for 60 days and is.... Read More

Young Transplant Patient Thriving After Journey Through COVID-19 Pandemic to a New Heart

Feb 25, 2021 at 08:46 pm by pj

  AdventHealth Transplant Institute physician: ‘This is the most rewarding part of my job’   ORLANDO  - On the same day Savannah Nissel lear.... Read More

Moderna Ships Doses of Variant Specific Vaccine to NIH for Testing

Feb 25, 2021 at 11:35 am by pj

February 24, 2021   Company also provides update on strategy for addressing SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern CAMBRIDGE - Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a.... Read More

Have a Case of a Covid Variant? No One Is Going to Tell You

Feb 25, 2021 at 11:21 am by pj

  Christina Jewett and JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News and Rachana Pradhan     Covid-19 infections from variant strains are quickly spreading across the.... Read More

COVID-19: What Have We Learned, Where Are We Going? 

Feb 24, 2021 at 12:00 pm by pj

  By JANELLE HOM   Let’s take a moment to step back in time to the beginning of 2020. We knew pretty much nothing about the virus that would come to rule ou.... Read More