Month: April 2021

A third of coronavirus patients were found to suffer from psychiatric or brain problems within six months of their COVID-19 diagnosis, according to a study published Tuesday. Researchers analyzed the health records of 236,379 COVID patients, mostly from the US, and found that 34 percent had been diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric disorders six months on. About one in eight of the patients, or 12.8 percent, were diagnosed for the first time with such an illness, the study showed. Anxiety, at 17 percent, and depression or mood disorders, at 14 percent, were the most common diagnoses, according to the research. Instances of post-COVID cases of stroke, dementia and other neurological disorders were rarer, but still significant — especially in pe...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Tuesday that 80% of all teachers, school staff and childcare workers in the U.S. have received at least the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Roughly 8 million pre-K through 12th grade workers had been vaccinated by the end of March, following President Biden’s March 2 directive to make all school staff and childcare workers eligible to receive the vaccine. CALIFORNIA TEENS CAN GO TO AN AMUSEMENT PARK BUT CAN'T GO TO MATH CLASS "Our push to ensure that teachers, school staff and childcare workers were vaccinated during March has paid off and paved the way for safer in-person learning," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday. "CDC will build on the success of this program and work with our partners to continue exp...

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SALT LAKE CITY — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, new research has revealed that Utah women are experiencing burnout more than they feel hope. It comes as income decreased and hours increased in some industries. The data from the Utah Women & Leadership Project was recently released as the pandemic has raged for more than a year and brought with it death, economic crises and mental health problems for residents. "We need to do specific things in our communities to raise hope and bring down (feeling) burned out," Susan Madsen, founder and director of the UWLP, explained. "Because our burnout is higher than our hope right now." A total of 3,542 Utah women responded to the survey, exceeding the original goal of 2,000 respondents. Tuesday's report is the first of several upcoming brief...