Month: August 2021

Some parents and school district employees are worried about the safety of students as COVID cases surge with the delta variant. PORTLAND, Ore. — For many students in Portland, next week means back to school. While there is excitement around the prospect of going back to in-person learning, there’s also apprehension. Steffanie Audel is an elementary school librarian in the Portland Public School District (PPS). She is glad about the district’s mandate that all employees must get the vaccine. But she doesn’t think that’s enough. Audel is hoping the district considers starting the year remotely or in a hybrid model. ...

SEARCH THE HOSPITALS ARE DEALING WITH DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE BUSIER THAN EVER IN THE FIGHT AGAITNS COVID-19. THIS HAS NOT GONE AWAY. YOU KNOW, THE DTAEL VARIANT IS HERE AND IT’S STRONGER CATHERINE. KENNEDY IS A REGISTERED NUERS AND PRESIDENT OF THE CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION. WE’RE SEARCHING, YOU KNOW, I WORK AT ROSEVILLE AND WE ARE CLOSE TO CAPACITY THE COVID-19 PATIENTS ARE OVERWHELMINGLY UNVACCINATED OUR ER WAS INUNDATED WITH PATIENTS TO THE POT INWHERE WE ACTUALLY YOU KNOW, AND THIS IS JUST NOT AT KAERIS BUT OTHER YOU KNOW MEDICAL CENTERS AROUND US HAVING THE TENTS PUTP U BECAUSE THERE’S JUST NOT ENOUGH. YOU KNOW ROOM IN OUR ERS PLACER COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DIRECTOR, DR.OB R OLDHAM CONFIRMS THE SURGE IS COUNTYWIDE THE MOST HOSPITALIZATIONSHA TT WE’VE SEEN IN T...

A nurse holds swabs and test tube to test people for COVID-19 at a drive through station set up in the parking lot of the Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. Paul Sancya / Associated Press University of A...