Month: December 2020

Vaccines intentionally removed from refrigerator at Grafton hospital Advocate Aurora Health says person no longer employed Updated: 8:05 PM CST Dec 30, 2020 The person who left 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine out of a pharmacy refrigerator at Aurora Medical Center- Grafton, did so intentionally, Advocate Aurora Health said. Continuing Coverage: Coronavirus in WisconsinAfter an internal investigation, it was first believed to be human error.The person in question Wednesday admitted that they intentionally removed the vaccine from refrigeration. That person is no longer employed, Advocate Aurora Health said in a news release. More than 500 doses of t...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 2,614 on Wednesday, with 21 more deaths reported, according to an update provided by the Utah Department of Health. The new COVID-19 case numbers indicate a 1% increase in positive cases since Tuesday. The rolling seven-day average number of positive cases per day is now at 2,033, according to the health department. The positive test rate per day for that time period is now 25%. There are now 484 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Utah, state data shows. Of the 21 new deaths, nine were from Salt Lake County and five were from Utah County, but the department reported new deaths from across the state. Utah now has 271,940 total confirmed cases, with 10,873 total hospitalizations and 1,256 total deaths from the diseas...

On the same day that California reported by far its highest number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said that L.A. had breached its own grim threshold. On Wednesday, the county crossed 10,000 lives lost to Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. Specifically, Los Angeles County recorded 274 deaths from the virus in the previous 24 hours for a total of 10,056. The 14-day average number of daily deaths for the virus according to Ferrer was about 150. That’s “about equal to the number of deaths from all other causes, which is about 170,” said Ferrer. “Most heartbreaking is that if we had done a better job reducing transmission of the virus, many of these deaths would not have happened.” Related S...

A covid-19 patient lies in a bed at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles on Dec. 22, 2020. Photo: Jae C. Hong (AP) New research out today looks to bring us closer to understanding how covid-19 can cause brain damage. The study suggests that while the viral infection may not directly reach the brain in most cases, it can spark the sort of destructive inflammation that’s seen with other neurological conditions, like stroke. The research was conducted by U.S. government scientists at the National Institutes of Health and is published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The team studied the brains of 19 people who died after contracting covid-19, using highly sensitive MRI scans as well as looking at brain tissue underneath a microscope. T...