Month: April 2021

A salmonella outbreak that has sickened people on the West Coast is linked to songbirds, the CDC says. SEATTLE — At least six people in Washington state are among more than a dozen people who have become sick due to a salmonella outbreak linked to wild songbirds. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says eight people have been hospitalized out of 19 reported illnesses in eight states, including Oregon and California. People who have become sick age in range from 2 months to 89 years old. The CDC says that...

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Volunteers working on an outdoor public art installation in Washington DC. created by Suzanne Firstenberg, December 2020. The white flags are meant to represent each life lost to covid-19 in the U.S. The covid-19 pandemic drove a horrifying surge in U.S. deaths last year, new research published Friday has shown. According to the study, over half a million more people died than would have been expected during the last 10 months of 2020. Most of these deaths were directly attributed to the viral illness, but some could also represent delays in health care and other indirect consequences of the pandemic. From the very start, scientists and public health agencies have been tracking excess deaths—total reported deaths above the average number seen in recent years—as a way to more accuratel...

Black Americans experienced highest per capita excess death rates, while regional surges contributed to higher excess death rates from COVID-19 and other causes, a VCU-led Journal of the American Medical Association study finds. Extended surges in the South and West in the summer and early winter of 2020 resulted in regional increases in excess death rates, both from COVID-19 and from other causes, a 50-state analysis of excess death trends has found. Virginia Commonwealth University researchers’ latest study notes that Black Americans had the highest excess death rates per capita of any racial or ethnic group in 2020. The research, publishing today (Friday, April 2, 2021) in the Journal of the American Medical Association, offers new data from the last 10 months of 2020 on ho...

The Maine Center for Disease Control is reporting the largest increase in daily cases in two months.There were 402 new cases reported on Friday, which is the most since Feb. 1.The 402 new cases bring the total since the beginning of the outbreak to 51,189. The seven-day average jumped to 252.9.The Maine CDC also reported one new death, bringing the total to 744. The new death was reported in York County.The state reported that 288,590 Mainers have received their final vaccine dose, which represents 21.47% of the population.MAINE CORONAVIRUS DATA: Deaths: 744 Total cases: 51,189 Confirmed cases: 39,153 Probable cases: 12,036 Cumulative positivity rate: 2.67% 14-day positivity rate: 2.3% Currently hospitalized: 75 Patients in inte...