My pager wakes me at 4:00 a.m. Its from Jill, a nurse on the medicine floor. Mr. M is on 4L of oxygen. I think he needs to go to the ICU. Please come assess. A few minutes later, I am outside the patients room, going through the laborious but essential proce…
Terrified of losing re-election President Donald Trump is plowing forward with a plan to re-open the nation for business regardless of how many lives will be lost to the coronavirus as a result. The Washington Post reports on the plan, calling it “a public h…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —As hospitals across the country combat the novel coronavirus, UC Davis Health is trying to prevent the spread by warning cancer patients now. Doctors at the UC Davis Cancer Center are starting to send letters to current and former smoker…
AUSTIN, Texas If a nursing home patient in the Austin area has COVID-19, they're brought to Hearthstone Nursing and Rehab in Round Rock for isolation and treatment. It's the only nursing home isolation facility the City of Austin has in place right now. N…
The Utah County Health Department has been operating with all hands on deck since the outbreak of COVID-19 more than a month ago. Everyone is feeling a lot of stress, said Aislynn Tolman-Hill, public information officer. I can see it on peoples faces. Its to…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…