In this case, waiting for a stable baseline would have meant withholding the therapy from traumatized young people who were highly distressed, were experiencing lengthier than usual waiting times due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and who often struggle with engagement. Therefore, it was decided that ...
If you are on deaths doorstep and your governor sticks infected patients into your nursing home, you are probably going to die with Covid, not from Covid. According to how they have classified other deaths, George Floyd died of Covid, not the fentanyl overdose that really killed him. The ...
I’m sorry that our extra pay has angered you. While we are all at risk it is not in the same capacity. As a respiratory therapist i am actively intubating these covid patients, putting tubes down their airways, they are coughing all over me, these very positive covid patients. If my...
Nationwide long-term facilities house three times the number of patients U.S. hospitals do. Wasserman said more buildings need to be turned into skilled nursing facilities for seniors with COVID-19. "If we push older adults out of hospitals and ICU's into nursing homes that will be overwhelm...
About 2 million people are living in nursing homes and other U.S. long-term care facilities. Those patients and the staff members who care for them have accounted for 6% of the nation's coronavirus cases and a staggering 39% of the deaths, CDC officials say. ...
In Ecuador and Italy, we helped hospitals deploy AI-assisted CT scan screening systems to expedite the diagnosis of potential COVID-19 patients and reduce the strain on their healthcare systems. In Namibia and Argentina, we helped install infrared thermometers in crowded places to prevent the ...
Although patients like Wu feel great using it, the surgery is actually a dangerous one. Healthy people shouldn’t use it, or it may hurt their bodies.1. What does the underlined word “depression” in the first paragraph mean in Chinese? A.肥胖症 B.抑郁症 C.高血压 D.心脏病2. What ...
California officials said they have to show the federal government that the waiver is "cost-neutral," with average spending per patient no higher than for institutional care for the same kinds of patients. When the state sought federal approval for the latest round of the program, it said part...
Katherine Rushfirth is the Associate Chief Midwife at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She lives with her husband Jared and infant son, Henry. Rushfirth has been on the frontlines caring for patients during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic for weeks. Her neighbors wanted to show their ...
An institutionalist at his core, this goodbye for Biden — performing his duty in executing the peaceful transfer of power — is an important moment for the 82-year-old career politician, who just four years ago was taking the oath of office in the height of the...