More than 100,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving transplant, and more than 20 people die daily because they didn’t receive the organ they need in time, according to Donate Life America, a nonprofit organization that highlights the need for donated organs, eyes and tissues.
During Julie Weighter’s eighth-grade year at St. Mary’s in 1962, she became ill and was diagnosed with renal kidney disease, spending four and a half months in Deaconess Hospital in Grand Forks.
Grand Forks County is about 50% of the way to herd immunity, but vaccine hesitancy could be a challenge
The number of people in northeastern North Dakota who indicated that they were unwilling to receive a COVID-19 vaccine could shrink the figurative pool of people Grand Forks County public health workers hope to vaccinate to achieve herd immunity. 9:35 pm, Apr. 19, 2021 ×
The large number of people who have said they are skeptical of a COVID-19 vaccine means Grand Forks County is approaching a ceiling of sorts as public health workers seek to achieve herd immunity.
A total of 21,368 county residents have been fully vaccinated as of Friday, April 16, according to data presented to Grand Forks City Council members on Monday. That’s more than halfway to the mark that public health workers believe they need to achieve herd immunity, which would mean the virus, in effect, runs out of room to spread.
Grand Forks man with transplanted heart reminds community of need for organ donors
More than 100,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving transplant, and more than 20 people die daily because they didn’t receive the organ they need in time, according to Donate Life America, a nonprofit organization that highlights the need for donated organs, eyes and tissues. 7:00 am, Apr. 16, 2021 ×
Retired UND music professor Mike Blake remains grateful for the gift of a donor heart 26 years ago at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Blake, 69, gives 20 percussion lessons a week and walks for 30 minutes six days a week at the Grand Cities Mall. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald