Month: February 2021

When the ambulance driver pulled to the top of the hillside, Simbota, too weak to move, was left on a stretcher at the main entrance of the red brick building. The minutes wore on, his bare chest expanding, and then cratering as he took struggled breaths through a blue surgical mask. His stretcher parked in quiet corner, away from foot traffic and staff members who gathered near the reception desk. After more than an hour in the searing midday heat, Simbota's family pulled up to the entrance in a small hatchback. Four of them struggled to pull him off the stretcher and squeeze him into the back. His wife cradled his head, covering his feverish body with a green and black blanket. A dramatic second wave of Covid-19 in Malawi, fueled by the new variant first discovered in neighboring Sou...

Health News of Monday, 8 February 2021 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2021-02-08 Coronavirus cases in Ghana have been rising Dr. Samuel Kojo Amoakohene, a Portland-based anesthesiologist, has waded into the debate that hydrogen peroxide can be used to prevent or treat the coronavirus, stating that it is not factual. Rather, he has suggested that people use halodine, a drug also known as povidone-iodine, since it is a more effective medication against the prevention and treatment of the virus. Speaking on JoyNews’ Newsfile on Saturday, February 6, 2021, Dr. Amoakohene said that according to a study, the use of halodin has been proven to be safer to use. He added that an experiment undertaken by his team to test the efficacy of the product has proven safe and efficient w...

“That is a tragedy,” Dr. Nida Qadir, co-director of the medical intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center, said of the M.L.K. statistic. Her hospital had mortality levels “a lot lower than that,” she said, though the hospital had not publicly released the figure. A new study of patients at 168 hospitals found that about half of Covid patients on ventilators died, and survival varied widely among hospitals. Dr. Theodore J. Iwashyna, a critical care physician at the University of Michigan, said the differences in hospital outcomes reflected a “system choice.” He and others have studied patients with complex pulmonary conditions and found that those treated at smaller hospitals with fewer resources and less experience in managing them tend to have poorer survival rates. “...

Los Angeles County’s daily coronavirus case numbers continued to decline Sunday, but health officials remained concerned about the recent detection of more contagious variants in the region and the potential for Super Bowl gatherings to trigger another surge. The county’s Department of Public Health announced 3,123 new coronavirus cases and 89 related deaths, some of the lowest numbers reported in recent days. The numbers of daily hospitalizations and the positivity rate — a seven-day average — also have declined steadily in the last week. But health officials cautioned that the decline in both categories may be due in part to reporting delays. To date, more than 1.1 million confirmed coronavirus cases have been reported among county residents, including 464,000 in the city of Los Angel...

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