Month: June 2021

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 343 on Thursday, with three more deaths and 9,713 vaccinations reported, according to the Utah Department of Health. The health department estimates there are now 5,473 active COVID-19 cases in Utah. The rolling seven-day average number of positive cases per day is now at 208, according to the health department. The positive test rate per day for that time period calculated with the "people over people" method is now 6.6%. The positive test rate per day for that time period calculated with the "test over test" method is now 4%. There are now 140 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Utah, including 54 in intensive care, state data shows. About 72% of all intensive care unit beds in Utah are now occupied, including abo...

An Indiana county on Wednesday voted to end a needle exchange program that health officials say has been responsible for significantly reducing the spread of HIV in the area.  The Scott County commissioners decided in a 2-1 vote that the district should phase out the program that provides access to and disposal of sterile needles and naloxone, as well as other emergency recovery and medical services.  Commissioners Mike Jones and Randy Julian defended their votes striking down the program Wednesday by arguing that access to needles has caused more drug overdoses in the county.  "I know people that are alcoholics, and I don't buy him a bottle of whiskey, and ... I have a hard time handing a needle to somebody that I know they're going to hurt theirself with," Jones said, accordi...

“He brought his culture of innovation,” Dr. Emond said. “And his personal capability, his ability to work for long hours, never quitting, never giving up, no matter how difficult the situation, carrying out operations that many would deem impossible.” In his first year at Columbia, Dr. Kato and his team operated successfully on a 7-year-old girl, Heather McNamara, whose family had been told by several other hospitals that her abdominal cancer was inoperable. The surgery, which involved removing six organs and then putting them back in, took 23 hours. More and more patients from around the country, and around the world, began seeking out Dr. Kato for operations that other hospitals could not or would not perform. He had also begun making trips to Venezuela to perform liver transplants for ...

RELEASED AS COVID-19 VACCINE RATES PLATEAU POLK COUNTY IS CONSIDERING OFFERING INCENTIVES TO PEOPLE TO GETHE T COVID-19 VACCINE JOINING OTHER GOVERNMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND THE WHITE HOUSE KC’I'S CHRIS GOSSNER IS LIVE WITH THE PLANNING THAT’S GOING ON RIGHT NOW, CHRIS. WELL PLANNING IS THE OPERATIVE WORD HERE STACY THE OFFICIALS OF POLK COUNTY. DON’T EX. KNOW WHAT THEY WANT TO DO JUST YET. THEY JUST WANT TO DO SOMETHING. AN ALL-AMERICAN SUMMER THAT THIS COUNTRY DESERVES AFTER AON LG LONG DARK WINTER THAT WE’VE ALL ENDURED ON WEDNESDAY PRESIDENT BIDEN CALLED FOR A MONTH OF ACTION TO REACH THE ADMINISTRATION’S GOAL OF 70% OF AMERICANS VACCINATED AGAINST COVID-19. BY INDEPENDENCE DAY OFFERING INCENTIVES TO GET OVER THE HUMP INCLUDING NATIONWIDE PARTNERSHIPS TO PROVIDE FREE CHI...

Slipping two servings of fresh fruit into your daily diet can lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by over one-third, a new study suggests. But, in this study, not all fruit is created equal as the benefits of eating whole fruit were not seen for those who drank fruit juice.  The study, conducted by Edith Cowan University (ECU) and published in the Journal of Clinical and Endocrinology and Metabolism, found that people who ate at least two servings of fruit per day had higher measures of insulin sensitivity than those who ate less than half of a serving, according to a news release posted on EurekAlert.org.  In fact, among the data analyzed from 7,675 Australians who had partaken in the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute’s AusDiab Study which assessed fruit and fruit juice int...