With the bulk of new COVID-19 infections occurring among the unvaccinated, the pace of Los Angeles County residents being hospitalized due to the virus has begun rising at an equivalent rate of new cases.
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UC Riverside has vaccinated 100 frontline health care workers at Student Health Services for the virus that causes COVID-19 in the first on-campus vaccine distribution.
Student Health Services applied through Riverside County six weeks earlier to inoculate its workers and was notified Jan. 7 that it would receive a shipment of 100 doses of the Moderna vaccine, said William Rall, senior administrative director for the office.
Vaccine allocation is determined primarily by counties. Under the California Department of Public Health vaccination protocol, employees in contact with patients are a high priority.
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The virus has become the country s leading cause of death.
It s just the beginning of the effects of Thanksgiving travel and gatherings, one epidemiologist said. The rate of death probably won t slow anytime soon.
At some hospitals, staff can t keep up, and they say patients are falling through the cracks.
In August, Stacey Singer DeLoye was finally allowed to visit her mother, Marilyn, at her Minnesota nursing home as long as they were outdoors, masked, and distant. She was totally cheerful, Stacey told Business Insider. I was astonished at how happy she was in that place, and I was impressed with how well they did at keeping the pandemic out.
The Thanksgiving surge in coronavirus deaths is here. It s horrifically awful, a hospital chaplain said.
The Thanksgiving surge in coronavirus deaths is here. It s horrifically awful, a hospital chaplain said.
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Dr. Joseph Varon hugs and comforts a patient in the COVID-19 ICU during Thanksgiving at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas.Go Nakamura/Getty Images
More than 47,000 people in the US have died from
COVID-19 since Thanksgiving.
The virus has become the country s leading cause of death.
It s just the beginning of the effects of Thanksgiving travel and gatherings, one epidemiologist said. The rate of death probably won t slow anytime soon.