More US hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face an expected but still nasty post-holiday spike in flu, Covid and other illnesses. While many experts say this season likely will not prove to be as deadly as some other recent winters, it could still mean hundreds of thousands of hospital admissions […]
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Hospitals in at least four U.S. states have reinstated mask mandates amid a rise in cases of COVID, seasonal flu and other respiratory illness. Healthcare facilities in New York, California, Illinois and Massachusetts have made masks mandatory among patients and providers. New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan told […]
NEW YORK (AP) — More U.S. hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face an expected but still nasty post-holiday spike in flu, COVID-19 and other illnesses. While many experts say this season likely won’t prove to be as deadly as some other recent winters, it still could mean hundreds of thousands […]
Local hospitals share pictures of 2024′s first babies In the first hours of the New Year, families across the Carolinas welcomed the first babies of 2024. A family from Fort Mill, S.C. had one of the first girls of the year. Nivi Rolla was born at 12:39 a.m. at Novant Health in Ballantyne. READ MORE: […]
As COVID-19 and other respiratory infections rise across the country, some major health systems are bringing back mask requirements to stop the spread of infections. This week, Mass General Brigham, the largest health system in Massachusetts, said it will require masking for health care staff who interact directly with patients in clinical care locations starting […]
Tens of thousands of civilians in the Gaza Strip are seeking shelter from the war in hospitals, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The Shifa Hospital in Gaza City is crowded with 50,000 people, and the Al-Amal Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip with 14,000, the health organization said on X, the platform formerly […]
Fourteen people were taken to hospitals after their van was involved in a crash on Interstate 75. The wreck happened just before 6 a.m. at mile marker 155, in Punta Gorda, near the county line with Lee County, according to a Florida Highway Patrol incident report. Troopers said the van was traveling on the outside […]
Dec. 20—WASHINGTON, D.C. — Georgia’s U.S. Senators, the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, both Democrats, pressured Senate leadership to allow Georgia’s 51 Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospitals to maintain their status for two years as the state’s health care system stabilizes. Disproportionate Share Hospitals serve larger numbers of low-income patients and receive support through federal […]
Hospitals and emergency rooms could be forced to ration care by the end of this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday, saying recent trends in COVID-19 and influenza are now on track to again strain America’s health care system. The new COVID variant JN.1 is making up an increasing share of […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — In this seaside resort, where $5 billion worth of in-person and online gambling gets done each year, there still is not a supermarket. People who live in Atlantic City must either drive off the island to a mainland store, take public transportation — whose cost eats away at the amount left […]