🚨On Monday, University of Kansas Health System Chief Medical Officer Dr. Steven Stites reported more than 500 employees were out due to COVID-19. kshb.com/news/coronavir…
We have over 500 employees out and that's a big number," chief medical officer Dr. Steven Stites said. "They're both on isolation and people who are quarantined..."
"..it's a challenge because I suspect in our area we have a mix of delta and omicron, I've seen some things that are speculating we're probably on 45% Delta and 50% or 60% of omicron."
"If you want to keep schools open and you want to keep businesses open, you've got to keep people healthy. You're either not going to have enough teachers or enough staff or too many students out in this omicron wave to think that you're going to really have successful schools"
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🧵Nationally, COVID hospitalizations under insurance contracts on avg cost $29,000, or $156,000 for patients requiring ICU care. In the U.S. 29,000 children have been hospitalized for COVID. +1,000 died. COVID is not harmless in children. A few stories #TheySurvivedCovid 1/X
4 month old Grayson Perry is one of 279 children in Texas currently hospitalized for COVID #TheySurvivedCovid 2/X
4 month old, Hudson Hooten was coinfected with COVID and RSV and required intensive care for oxygen therapy at Children's Medical Center in Dallas Texas. #TheySurvivedCovid 3/ fox4news.com/news/north-tex…
"She was afraid, she was very careful, the most careful in the house. She had a small bag with just the mask, alcohol gel, she washed her hands, came home from school and took a shower, sometimes I wanted to go for a walk, and she told me put the mask on."
"I love my daughter a lot. I just want God to comfort my heart more, because it's not easy to lose a daughter. I never imagined losing my daughter, especially to this disease."
University of Maryland Capital Region Health says it's moving three Prince George’s health centers to crisis standards of care amid rising #COVID19 cases and staffing shortages. nbcwashington.com/news/coronavir…
"UM Capital Region Medical Center, the only trauma center in the county and one that serves all of southern Maryland, was on trauma bypass status for more than three hours overnight between Dec. 31 and Jan. 1"
"Trauma patients had to be rerouted to D.C. and Montgomery County. This came as there were multiple serious car crashes and several shootings, in addition to the COVID-19 patient surge."
Tennessee increases the state's COVID death toll by ~2,700 to 20,644
Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey said that the revision was due to lagging data, such as manual death reporting by many health care providers and increased home deaths apnews.com/article/corona…
"She said the additional deaths occurred throughout the pandemic, with about 70% largely linked to the delta variant surge and occurring since Aug. 1."
🇺🇸38 y.o. Adrienne Chandler from Milwaukee #Wisconsin passed away from COVID after giving birth to her fourth child. She was not vaccinated. "She has a beautiful soul and my heart will always belong to her" #SoulsLostToCovidcbs58.com/news/mother-un…
"Adrienne had been expecting her fourth child & super excited to welcome him into the family. Adrienne went in for an emergency c-section that she needed because of worsening COVID and did not make it through. We lost her on Tue Nov 30th. Luckily her baby Roman is healthy. <3"
"We are starting this GoFundMe on behalf of her 4 kiddos who lost their mom WAY too soon. We’d like to raise enough money to be able to help dad David give Moriah, Olivia and Calvin the best Christmas they can have this year given the circumstances." gofund.me/3948d313
She leaves 4 grieving children: Xavier, 15; Demetrius "Meechy," 13, Gabriella, 7; and Cah-ya, 2.
"Everyone else in the family had gotten their shots, she said, including Thomas' husband. They were especially concerned about transmitting the virus to Knowles and Thomas' mother, Deborah Hatswell, who has Stage 3 pancreatic cancer."