Month: September 2020

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious diseases physician and medical director of the Special Pathogens Unit at Boston Medical Center, said many people often don’t realize that the flu shot doesn’t confer immediate protection, that your body needs a few weeks to build up the immunity afterward. So her advice this season is for most people to get the flu vaccine on the early side, in the coming weeks. “Our priority should be to reduce flu activity as early as we can in communities so flu doesn’t get out of control,” Bhadelia said. Nationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates the flu last season was responsible for as many 740,000 hospitalizations and 62,000 deaths. In Massachusetts, the state health department last season reported about 60,000 emergency room visits for ...

by: The Associated Press and Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Sep 10, 2020 / 07:23 AM EDT / Updated: Sep 10, 2020 / 07:23 AM EDT (NEXSTAR/AP) — Employers are generally not required to tell workers when someone in the workplace has tested positive for the coronavirus. President Trump talking about coronavirus: ‘I wanted to always play it down’ The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that companies monitor employees for symptoms and alert those who may have been in contact with an infected person. Some states may order businesses to follow such guidance. Employers have the right to take employees’ temperature and ask about symptoms or if they have been exposed to or diagnosed with the virus. If an employee doesn’t...

Mr. Vertu, 33, the dietary aide, said he gets paid about $9.80 an hour, a salary he says has remained roughly unchanged since he started working 14 years ago. Ms. Julceus, who is a certified nurse, earns about $12 an hour. Sheryl Carlos, 56, works three jobs seven days a week in Port St. Lucie, north of West Palm Beach. One is at a nursing home and another at a retirement community; she earns extra income caring for a couple of people in private homes. She makes about $13 an hour. “Let me tell you something, I don’t have a life,” she said recently as she drove back home in the early morning after finishing a nine-hour shift. “If some jobs were paying you enough, you wouldn’t have to be working like that.” Nursing home advocates say that most facilities have little control over what other ...

Agents with the N.C. Alcohol Law Enforcement visited a number of privately-owned bars Wednesday in Winston-Salem, informing their operators that the businesses must close under a pandemic-related executive order from Gov. Roy Cooper, two bar owners said. Cooper's order extending restrictions on late-night service of alcoholic beverages went into effect at 11 p.m. on Aug. 31. The order will remain in effect until 11 p.m. on Oct. 2 unless Cooper rescinds it.  An ALE spokeswoman didn't respond to phone calls and an email seeking more information about the agency's enforcement actions in Winston-Salem and elsewhere in Forsyth County.  ALE agents talked to the operators at a number of bars in the city, said Tony Stevens, the owner of the Whiske...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - CoxHealth is mourning the loss of an employee at a Branson clinic who died from COVID-19. Marie Brumbaugh served as a medical clinic assistant. She was 40-years-old. In a statement to KY3 News, CoxHealth reports it does not know the source of the infection with certainty. There is a possibility she may have contracted the virus while caring for a patient undergoing routine clinic care unrelated to COVID-19. The patient needed to be unmasked for a short time during the course of treatment, and tested positive for COVID-19 after the clinic visit. It is also possible she acquired it in the community as the prevalence has been high in and around Taney County. Read the entire statement here: Please see the following message from Steve Edwards, president and CEO of Cox...