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The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unequal impact on different racial and ethnic groups in the United States, resulting in new disparities of health outcomes as well as exacerbating existing health and economic disparities . The pandemic struck the United States in March 2020, causing almost 2 million known cases by June 1, 2020. [ 1]
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted healthcare workers physically and psychologically. [1] Healthcare workers are more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection than the general population due to frequent contact with infected individuals. Healthcare workers have been required to work under stressful conditions without proper protective equipment, and ...
Here are five big takeaways. 1. Heart disease and cancer are still the leading causes of death. For more than 100 years, heart disease has been the number one No. 1 cause of death in the U.S, and ...
New York: Health authorities recommend health facilities stop testing non-hospitalized patients, in part because of a shortage of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) for health care workers. [374] The state had announced initial tests will begin Tuesday, March 22 to see how effective three drugs are against COVID-19.
The researchers discovered that 6 percent of adults hospitalized after being infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, during that time were health care workers. Of those, 36 ...
The use of face masks also is crucial for health workers and other people who are taking care of someone infected with COVID-19 in close settings (at home or in a health care facility).”
Home care worker and labor organizer United States (Long Branch) Jim Cross: 87 Ice hockey player and coach United States John Paul Eberhard: 93 Research architect and academic United States (Gaithersburg) Jim Henderson: 79 Politician Canada (Toronto) Daniel S. Kemp: 83 Organic chemist United States (Concord, MA) Ralph McGehee: 92
New research finds the COVID-19 vaccine lowers the risk of long COVID by up to 72%. The findings support health agencies’ recommendations. Long COVID treatments still have a long way to go.