Documents obtained under FOIA reveal 'at least 6,212 patients caught COVID in hospital in 24 months...Of those, 586 died...with men dying at a higher rate than women [11% vs 8%].'

Nearly 1 in 10 patients who caught COVID in the hospital died. How can anyone find this acceptable?

Consider making a comment to the US govt to not only require hospitals report on cases, but to REPORT ON HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTION which has at least a 10% INFECTION MORTALITY RATE! This is the norm for other infections, why should this be any different?
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Open for comments! US Health & Human Svcs is proposing a new rule: beginning Oct 1 2024, hospitals would have to electronically report information about COVID, flu & RSV on a weekly basis. This info is critical to tracking/forecasting. Submit your comment: federalregister.gov/documents/2024…

College students 'should be developing collaborative skills' for their work life, said NY Governor Kathy Hochul today, as Errol Louis (@errol.louis on Threads) Inside City Hall noted on Spectrum News NY1.
Does it teach collaboration for cops to bust #StudentProtests with tear gas, zip-ties, even guns drawn?
#encampments

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👉 Get boosted if you can
👉 Test before gatherings
👉 Stay home when you're ill
👉 Wear fitting high filtration masks (especially in healthcare settings)
👉 Avoid crowded indoor areas
👉 Ventilate
Each step is imperfect, so combining layers of protection is essential.

WHO recommends new 💉formulations to target JN.1, which has already been overtaken by its sub-lineage KP.2
JN.1 💉 won’t be available till the fall. Glad TIME @Jamie_Ducharm highlights the layered approach as #PublicHealth advice bit.ly/4bqok6c

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A few have been asking how the Spanish flu ended. The virus that caused the enormous influenza Pandemic that tragically led to an estimated 50 million deaths gradually slowed as it ran out of victims. Some developed immunity but after infection to that strain. That however is not

2/ Employees say conditions in Steward facilities were poor going back years and vendors weren't paid on time as a matter of policy. They say the company's private equity roots were, in part, to blame for operating conditions.
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As American health care prices skyrocket, UnitedHealth’s CEO makes millions despite an antitrust investigation by DOJ and system-disrupting cyberattack. Now, they want to buy Steward’s physician group. We need guaranteed protections for patients & providers—not corporate greed.

55 years ago, 4 college students were killed by the National Guard at Kent State for peacefully protesting the Vietnam War.

Now, our campuses are being militarized in response to students protesting collective punishment in Gaza. We must allow our students to stand for justice.

The FDA just banned labs like mine to create a test for a bird flu. More regs that are anti-consumer but don’t worry there’s an exclusion for academic medical centers like they’re always are. So everybody can wait in line at their local university for an overpriced & slow test.

Care to followup The New York Times
I am not afraid to tell you the whole truth because there is no glimpse of better as long as we're ignored!

Michael Olesen 💉😷🇺🇸🇺🇦 I watch the variants, and the CDC reports proportions of variants weekly. There were regional reports as well, but only if the regions (5 to 8 states) have at least 300 sequences in a 2 week period. There's only one region that meets that criteria. So, yeah, flying blind

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Unless something changes drastically in the next few days, we start flying completely blind on 5/1. The windshield of the aircraft been caked with ice since June, but I think the next plan is to pluck out the eyes of the pilot and copilot.

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The UAW will never support the mass arrest or intimidation of those exercising their right to protest, strike, or speak out against injustice.

There’s a kind of antisemitism in letting people chant “Jews will not replace us” unopposed and then to shut down an encampment like this in the name of “protecting Jews”

Obviously there’s antisemitism in letting that march happen at all, but that juxtaposition is another level

New variants rising. May the force be with you.

“I am so glad that Danny’s Pharmacy II has the booster I want. I hope the protection will last longer as some experts suggest.” Debbie Deb Soc - #KeepMasksInHealthCare #StopTheSpread!, MPH, just got her #Novavax . She already had the XBB shot once.

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Tomorrow on #InFocusNY1 , @CherylWillsNY1 is joined by NY State Senator Kristen Gonzalez to discuss how the state legislature is assessing hospital closures in the city. Plus, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez talks about his last five years since being appointed. Watch tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

CIDRAP The trick with this is PCR testing sites have closed throughout the country. And for those at high-risk it can be detrimental to go for urgent care & doctors offices that don’t have any COVID precautions in place because even if they test negative they may then get COVID at visit