COVID-19 and now San Antonio doctors are observing what could be described as the “COVID cliff.”According to University Health System, the so-called cliff can occur when a patient who has been battling COVID-19 for a week to 10 days begins to recover, but then hits a setback just as they were starting to feel better.…
City of San Antonio’s COVID-10 website. (Find the mobile version of the below dashboard here.)RELATED: Map: Track COVID-19 cases in Texas, county-by-county updatesWhat we know about COVID-19 related deaths in Bexar County:In Bexar County, COVID-19 has taken 48 lives.About 39% of the deaths in Bexar County — 18 in all — occurred among residents at…
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have