Will face masks become the new normal in medical offices?
Erie hospitals had been offering telemedicine for years, giving patients the opportunity to see a primary-care physician, dermatologist or other medical providers via laptop or smartphone.
A few patients took advantage of the program, but it accounted for less than 1% of all office visits as recently as a year ago, according to local hospital leaders.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic reached Erie County. It clearly had an effect, said Saint Vincent Hospital President Christopher Clark, D.O. Telemedicine was as high as 70% of our visits during the early part of the pandemic, now it s closer to one-third of our visits in December.
Remember to protect your pets in cold weather, the Forsyth County Sheriff s Office warns
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How many industries do you know of that have survived a century pretty much just as they are? Maybe they got a credit card machine and a computer or two to keep the books. But the product, the manufacturing process and the loyalty of customers that spans generations never changes.
Chocolate. Say what you will about Hershey s. Sure they have a theme park and an international distribution network, but do people drive there from Erie the day before Valentine s Day or a week before Easter to stand in line in slushy late-winter weather to get some of what they got from their parents and those parents got from theirs?
Angling for time at Presque Isle State Park s Misery Bay, Horseshoe Pond
About 40 ice-fishing huts dotted Presque Isle State Park s Misery Bay late Saturday morning.
Anglers hauled their sleds filled with huts, augers, heaters, minnow buckets, rods and scoopers onto ice that measured about 4 inches in depth at one of the Erie region s most popular winter fishing venues.
John Kitcho, 40, of Erie, drilled a couple holes in the ice and set up his collapsible ice shanty as his son, John, 5, scooped ice out of the freshly augured holes. It s really why I wanted to get him out here so he could learn a little bit about ice safety, the elder Kitcho said. I keep saying to him, Safety is the only thing that matters in ice fishing. If you catch a lot of fish throughout the years, it s a bonus. That s sort of how I like to look at it.
Liz Szabo
Kaiser Health News
As an emergency physician, Dr. Eugenia South was in the first group of people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. She received her second dose last week – even before President-elect Joe Biden.
Yet South said she’s in no rush to throw away her face mask.
“I honestly don’t think I’ll ever go without a mask at work again,” said South, faculty director of the Urban Health Lab at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. “I don’t think I’ll ever feel safe doing that.”
And although vaccines are highly effective, South plans to continue wearing her mask outside the hospital as well.
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