Month: August 2021

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This July 27, 2021, photo provided by Melissa Syverson shows West Melbourne resident Kristen McMullen, 30, feeding her newborn daughter, Summer, at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Fla. Kristen only got to hold Summer for a few moments after giving birth via emergency C-section. The mother, who had COVID-19, was then taken to the ICU, where her condition worsened. She died on Aug. 6, 2021, 10 days after her little girl was born. (Melissa Syverson/AP)

An image of a mosquito. The West Nile virus, which is usually transmitted to humans through mosquito bite, was detected Friday in Cache County. (Shutterstock) HYDE PARK — The West Nile virus was recently detected in a mosquito pool in Cache County for the first time this year, officials with the Cache Mosquito Abatement District said Saturday. The virus was found Friday from a group of mosquitoes caught west of Logan in the community of Benson and tested for the virus. The district's announcement comes a little more than a week after the Utah Department of Health reported that the virus had been found in 114 mosquito pools across Utah this summer. Those confirmed cases involved the Davis, Salt Lake, Summit and Weber/Morgan heal...

Hospitalizations from COVID-19 for people in their 30s hit a record high this week, the Wall Street Journal reports. Why it matters: Adults between the ages of 30 and 39 largely avoided hospitalizations from coronavirus during the early phases of the pandemic, but lagging vaccination numbers and highly active lives are driving hospitalizations in the age group, per the Journal. Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free Driving the news: Adults between 30 and 39 who were admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 hit about 2.5 per 100,000 people as of last Wednesday, compared with the previous peak of roughly 2 per 100,000 people in early January, per The Journal. New hospital admissions of COVID-19 patients in their 30s hit 1,113 a ...

OLYMPIA — COVID-19 cases are “spreading like wildfire” among adults as well as children in Washington and state health officials say they are extremely concerned. The rapid acceleration in cases is demonstrating the delta variant’s potential to unravel the state’s hard-fought progress toward recovery, Department of Health officials said in a news release. Unvaccinated people are being hit hardest, public health officials said, and they are again urging everyone who has not gotten fully vaccinated to do so immediately. “Vaccination progress is continuing, but not fast enough,” state Secretary of Health Umair A. Shah said. “If you are unvaccinated and continue to have questions, we encourage you to speak to a trusted health care provider.” Prevalence is approaching levels seen in the ...

Aug 14 (Reuters) - The number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States hit a record high of just over 1,900 on Saturday, as hospitals across the South were stretched to capacity fighting outbreaks caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant. The Delta variant, which is rapidly spreading among mostly the unvaccinated portion of the U.S. population, has caused hospitalizations to spike in recent weeks, driving up the number of pediatric hospitalizations to 1,902 on Saturday, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Children currently make up about 2.4% of the nation's COVID-19 hospitalizations. Kids under 12 are not eligible to receive the vaccine, leaving them more vulnerable to infection from the new, highly transmissible variant. "T...