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Hospitals Are Sourcing Masks from Auto Body Shops, HHS Inspector General Finds

April 6, 2020 / SELENA SIMMONS-DUFFIN Hospitals are trying to make their own disinfectant from in-house chemicals, running low on toilet paper and food, and trying to source face masks from nail salons. Those are some of the findings from a snapshot survey of how America’s hospitals are handling the coronavirus crisis. The survey was done over …

Inside an ER during the coronavirus outbreak

April 6, 2020 / EXCLUSIVE By Lauren del Valle and Miguel Marquez, CNN Brooklyn, New York (CNN) – One emergency room. Forty minutes. Six patients go into cardiac arrest. Four die before they make it out of the ER. The blare of the critical “CODE 99” from the hospital alert system rings out five other times in less than …

Coronavirus updates: U.S. hospitals forced to cut staff as COVID-19 deaths mount

April 6, 2020 /  CBS NEWS As the United States began what President Trump warns will be the “toughest week” yet of the coronavirus crisis, CBS News has found some cash-strapped American hospitals are forcing staff to stay home at the worst possible time.  As the nation’s death toll nears 10,000, front-line medics at one hospital in hard-hit …

US Coronavirus Updates: ‘Peak Week’ for Deaths, Hospitalizations; AA Cuts NYC Flights

April 6, 2020 / Associated Press/NBC Americans braced for what the nation’s top doctor warned Sunday would be “the hardest and saddest week” of their lives. “This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment,” U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.” The stark warning comes as hospitals, …

Nexxt Spine Announces First Case with Newly Launched Corpectomy System

April 3, 2020- Noblesville, IN- Nexxt Spine, LLC a leading manufacturer of spinal solutions is proud to accomplish the first effective implantation of the Nexxt Matrixx® Corpectomy System following FDA clearance.  Showcasing technology unique to the Nexxt Matrixx® line of products, the corpectomy cage is an intentionally engineered 3D printed porous titanium implant. The surgery …

What Does The Ventilator Do For You If You Have COVID-19 Coronavirus?

April 3, 2020 / Nina Shapiro, Contributor As the COVID-19 pandemic expands worldwide, with the United States now having the highest number of cases and exponentially increasing numbers of cases and deaths daily, the shortage of supplies is becoming paramount. Healthcare workers are in need of personal protective equipment (PPE), which includes N95 masks, surgical …

Ventilator Shortages Loom As States Ponder Rules For Rationing

April 3, 2020 / MARTIN KASTE, REBECCA HERSHER Medical rationing is not something Americans are accustomed to, but COVID-19 may soon change that. The specter of rationing is most imminent in New York City, where the virus is spreading rapidly and overwhelming hospitals with patients. According to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the state has …

Hope, exhaustion, fear: Health workers in quiet areas prep for COVID-19 chaos while colleagues in other cities rush in

April 3, 2020 / Jayme Fraser, Jessica Bliss, Giacomo Bologna, Grace Hauck, and Daveen Rae Kurutz, USA TODAY Network One day last week in New York City, ambulances queued up outside the entrance to the emergency room. Passengers waited, some for five hours, to be triaged. They sat in the lobby hours more before seeing …

First Katrina, Now COVID19: The Louisiana State University Perspective

by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed., April 3, 2020 Louisiana has famously weathered many storms. The psyche of the city of New Orleans, in particular, was forever altered by Hurricane Katrina. We learned that the impossible can happen and that the seemingly impossible—recovery—can happen as well. A new storm has arrived and those at the Louisiana …

Get ready for wartime levels of national debt and tough choices ahead

April 3, 2020 / Analysis by Charles Riley, CNN Business London (CNN Business) – Governments are launching one rescue package after another in hopes of preventing economic catastrophe as the coronavirus pandemic rampages around the world, shutting down entire industries and costing tens of million of people their jobs. In most countries, political opposition to spending increases funded by …

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