6 hours 27 minutes 44 seconds ago Thursday, April 16 2020 Apr 16, 2020 April 16, 2020 8:11 PM April 16, 2020 in News - Local Cameron County confirmed its fourth coronavirus-related death on Thursday. According to a release, the patient was an 82-year old female from the Veranda Nursing Home in Harlingen and passed…
CORONAVIRUS Multiple employees have told ABC10 over the past week that Safeway's new actions to prevent COVID-19 spread at the warehouse are "too little, too late." TRACY, Calif. — After announcing a new executive order that allows front-line essential workers to take a supplemental paid sick leave, Governor Gavin Newsom referred to the Safeway Distribution…
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Workers at a Southeast Portland nursing home that has now reported 14 coronavirus deaths failed to wash their hands, got only one mask per shift and weren’t trained on how to control the spread of infection, the state said Thursday.Healthcare at Foster Creek has become the site of the largest known cluster of coronavirus cases…
A nursing home in northern Illinois has become one of the latest US care facilities to report a deadly outbreak of COVID-19. Twenty-two residents and one staff member at the Symphony of Joliet have died after testing positive for coronavirus, a spokeswoman for the facility announced Wednesday. More than 4,810 deaths have been linked to coronavirus outbreaks…
KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed federal policy on vaccine research, vaping, and drug access on Science Friday on May 8. Rovner also discussed the Supreme Court decision on the abortion pill mifepristone on NPR’s Morning Edition on May 5. Click here to hear Rovner on Science Friday. Click here to hear
Here in Washington, we’ve been hearing about tensions between the White House and one of its most controversial — but, at least in some circles, most popular — figures: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Polling of likely voters indicates that the Health and Human Services secretary can be an asset to Republicans when he’s talking about improving the nation’s food supply or labeling ultraprocessed foods. But when he’s talking about removing recommendations for routine childhood vaccinations, he can be a detriment. So, when I
Several states have joined President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts and are taking federal reporting requirements to immigration authorities a step further — by using their public health agencies as arms of enforcement. North Carolina, in late April, became the latest member of a growing group of Republican-led states to require their public health agencies to