Month: June 2021

Opioids crisis Deaths from fentanyl overdoses have jumped by more than 2,100% in five years as the powerful drug has flooded the state Mon 14 Jun 2021 06.00 EDT When San Francisco police seized seven kilos of powder-filled baggies containing the deadly opioid fentanyl last week, the city’s police chief warned the bust contained “enough lethal overdoses to wipe out San Francisco’s population four times over”.But drug addiction experts say the haul may represent just a tiny fraction of the massive volume of the powerful synthetic drug that is flooding California, after being mostly an east coast phenomenon for years. The evidence is in the rapidly surging death rates. The number of deaths from fentanyl overdoses jumped by more than 2100% in California in five years, state figures show. O...

People gather for a beer garden, food and charity auction after a group ride to benefit veterans with PTSD at the American Legion Post in Rock Springs, Wyo., on June 12, 2020. Rock Springs is in Sweetwater County, where the coronavirus caseload remains high and few residents are vaccinated. (Kim Raff for The Washington Post) States with higher vaccination rates now have markedly fewer coronavirus cases, as infections are dropping in places where most residents have been immunized and are rising in many places people have not, a Washington Post analysis has found. States with lower vaccination also have significantly higher hospitalization rates, The Post found. Poorly vaccinated communities have not been reporting catastrophic conditions. Instead, they are usually seeing new infe...

Coronavirus Health experts emphasize need for even those who have had disease to get inoculated Associated Press Sun 13 Jun 2021 17.13 EDT New cases of Covid-19 are declining across most of the US, even in some states with vaccine-hesitant populations.But almost all states where cases are rising have lower-than-average vaccination rates and experts warned on Sunday that relief from the coronavirus pandemic could be fleeting in regions where few people get inoculated.Case totals nationally have declined in a week from a seven-day average of nearly 21,000 on May 29 to 14,315 on Saturday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.For weeks, states and cities have been ending virus restrictions and mask mandates, even indoors.Experts said some states were seeing increased immunity bec...

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