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Stroke Awareness Month
It’s the saddest thing when people you know are incapacitated by stroke. Because May is National Stroke Awareness Month and a Laguna neighbor suffered a recent stroke, this column is dedicated to helping you know how to best protect yourself and loved ones.
A stroke happens when a cerebral blood vessel is blocked (termed ischemic, 87% of strokes) or ruptures (called hemorrhagic, 13% of strokes) causing brain cell damage. It’s a big problem: with roughly 800,000 U.S. strokes annually, it’s the fifth leading cause of death and a major cause of disability.
George Stephanopolous interviews Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar about distribution of the COVID vaccine.
The shift came after results from a poll by O.C. Emergency Medical Services. Thirteen county hospitals revealed more than half of their COVID-19 patients are seniors over the age of 60. That age group makes up 72% of people in the intensive care unit and 72% of those needing ventilators. So you see, our ICU capacity dropped because our most vulnerable population keeps going in for those beds and the thought is if we don t stop this, it will continue to be so, Chau said, adding, We won t get out of the lockdown if we don t do something about it.
Families Face Delays in Burying Dead as State Urges OC Officials to Distribute More Coronavirus Vaccines
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Bodies are stacking up at Orange County hospitals as coronavirus patients keep flooding emergency rooms and intensive care units, while county public health officials are being pressured by the state to distribute more vaccines.
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“When the staff in the office that manages the morgue tells me I don’t have any more space … that was the trigger for us to say okay … we need a second truck,” said registered nurse Gemma Seidl, who is executive director of acute care services at St. Joseph Hospital.