Month: November 2020

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“I plead for everybody to stay home,” said Alexa Aregonez, whose 57-year-old mother was hospitalized with COVID pneumonia. ARLINGTON, Texas — It was just going to be a small, casual get-together - a Nov. 1 birthday party with fajitas and cake for a cousin of Alexa Aregonez. Alexa didn’t attend, but she gave her 57-year-old mother a ride to the party. A total of 12 members of the Aregonez family were there. Within days, all of them had COVID.  “The ent...

And with winter coming, health experts say it's only going to get worse, as more people gather indoors to avoid cold weather. How else can you protect yourself and those you love? Here's a refresher on the basics. Wear a mask properly It's simple, but wearing a mask properly is one of the most important ways you can protect yourself and those around you, health experts say. A recent report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington found that if 95% of Americans wore masks, almost 70,000 lives would be saved. N95 masks offer the best protection, but they are in short supply, and the CDC is asking people not to go out and buy them, because they are urgently needed by health care workers. Washable, breathable cloth masks will do the job,...

In Iowa, as of Friday night, the new number of daily COVID-19 cases is near record highs with more than 4,000 people testing positive in a 24-hour-period. With so many Iowans getting COVID-19 and needing care in a hospital, many health care workers are working overtime to care for COVID-19 patients.Nick Klein is in his sixth year of being a registered nurse. He spoke to KCRG and says this year is unlike anything he’s ever faced. "We didn’t really know, it seems like, what to expect and what we were getting ourselves involved with. Our unit became the COVID unit... it’s completely different physically, mentally, and emotionally,” Klein said.He works in the medical ICU at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, treating up to two COVID-19 patients a day, depending on how critical...

Wherever you look, the coronavirus numbers in New Jersey are only going one way. The week of Nov. 12-18 marked the third straight week that every county in New Jersey saw an increase in new coronavirus cases over the week prior. It was just a couple months ago that adding five or six cases per 10,000 residents was enough to land a county at the top of the state. This week, no county had fewer than 13.8 new cases per 10,000 residents. CORONAVIRUS RESOURCES: Live map tracker | Businesses that are open | Homepage On the whole, New Jersey added 29.3 cases per 10,000 residents. A figure that was once a mere fraction of the U.S. as a whole has nearly caught up. There were 33.5 cases per 10,000 residents nationally during the course of the week. Is the map not displaying? Click here. The...