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The surge of patients during the summer of 2021 has created a nurse staffing crisis, leading hospitals to pay above typical salaries. Nurses who have been the backbone of the world during the pandemic have had extra pressure to care for the overwhelming influx of positive COVID-19 patients in hospitals.
Almost 1,500 health workers in various health institutions received training in the management of COVID-19 patients. [50] Many countries, including Kenya , adopted other globally trending strategies, such as curfew, lockdowns and increased social distance are being adopted to answer the ideal response to a pandemic.
Ill patients who would normally stay in a hospital for observation are being discharged to make room for sicker patients. Hospitals and emergency services in the Los Angeles region are in crisis ...
The rapidly escalating surge in COVID-19 infections across the U.S. has caused a shortage of nurses and other front-line staff in virus hot spots that can no longer keep up with the flood of ...
A temporary hospital for COVID-19 patients in Santo André, Brazil, in March 2021 On 12 March, several countries stopped using the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine due to blood clotting problems, specifically cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). [ 233 ]
The vessel previously was only expected to take patients from southern California hospitals, to free up space there for COVID-19 patients. [49] Six hundred nurses with infectious disease control training were being dispatched to nursing homes and adult care facilities to contain the disease. [ 49 ]
That nightmare became a reality for thousands of patients at Atrium Health, one of North Carolina’s largest hospital systems; that is until a recent decision to cancel 11,500 liens relieved ...
On January 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it had found at least 52 confirmed cases of the more contagious SARS-CoV-2 variant: 26 in California, 22 in Florida, two in Colorado, and one each in Georgia and New York.