Category: Public Health

Mount Sinai Health System launches center for COVID-19 recovery

By Becker's Hospital Review - Healthcare News in Becker's Hospital Review, Channels, Featured, Public Health
May 14, 2020

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Wisconsin’s stay-at-home order overturned; COVID-19 ‘may never go away,’ WHO official says — 6 updates

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May 14, 2020

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Despite Pandemic, Trauma Centers See No End To ‘The Visible Virus Of Violence’

By Giles Bruce in COVID-19, guns, Kaiser Health News, Public Health, states
May 14, 2020

A steady stream of gunshot victims continues to flow into a trauma center on Chicago’s South Side and many other metropolitan trauma centers. This puts a strain on hospitals already busy fighting COVID-19.

Trump’s Comparison Of COVID-19 Death Rates In Germany, US Is Wrong

By Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News in COVID-19, Kaiser Health News, KHN & PolitiFact HealthCheck, Public Health, Trump Administration
May 14, 2020

Experts agreed that Trump’s statement is not supported by the data.

Under COVID Cloud, Prisons In Rural America Threaten To Choke Rural Hospitals

By LJ Dawson in COVID-19, Kaiser Health News, Prison Health Care, Public Health, states
May 14, 2020

A rural Montana county of 5,000 people lays claim to the state’s highest COVID-19 infection rate. The community risks additional spread, though, because of a private prison situated there. If the virus infiltrates the prison and just a fraction of inmates get sick, the area’s limited health resources may not endure.