Jesus, probably Joseph, and the apostles
WASHINGTON D.C. — As more states report cases of the omicron variant, the World Health Organization says contact tracing will be key to containing it.
States have been contact tracing since the pandemic started but those efforts have had to evolve along the way.
For example, some things like those contact tracing apps from early in the pandemic have faded away because they really didn’t work.
Now experts say more states lean on individuals for help with the process.
The National Academy for State Health Policy is a nonpartisan forum that has been tracking those efforts..
Based on their research, states used three major contact tracing methods: state and local resources, partnering with other agencies, or using contractors.
Executive director Hemi Tewarson said states had the most success when contact tracers were familiar to the communities.
“I think it really has depended on the ability of those contact tracers to be persuasive, frankly, and get people to contact them back. That’s the key part, you have to have a two-way street of communication,” she said.
https://www.wftv.com/news/state-ramp-up-contact-tracing-efforts-delta-now-omicron-cases-rise/JDFGSXXQZVDGBOAZRUOEIQSI5Y/
PITTSBURGH — “I was at work and experienced heart palpitations, and my blood pressure went real high,” Christopher Selley told Channel 11.
He was at work and took an ambulance to Heritage Valley Beaver, where he says he never got a room.
“They did a chest X-ray, EKG, and a CAT scan of my head. They did those tests, then placed me back into the wheelchair in the waiting room,” Selley said.
He told Channel 11 he sat in the waiting room, in a wheelchair, from 4 a.m. until noon. Other patients were there too waiting to receive care.
“There were people laying all over the waiting room and sleeping. (Staff) was coming around handing out blankets just so they could sleep,” he added.
Heritage Valley’s Medical Director for Emergency Services says they have 90 COVID-19 patients at their three hospitals combined, which is close to last year’s peak.
With staffing shortages, wait times could be up to four hours.
They aren’t the only hospital system experiencing these issues. Butler Memorial has the highest number of COVID-19 patients they’ve had since the pandemic started. Right now, they have 70 inpatients, and wait times are up to 6 hours. A dozen COVID-19 patients have died at BMS since Friday, officials said.
https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/western-pennsylvania-hospitals-reporting-high-numbers-covid-patients-rising-number-deaths/JBT7Z6UAWVASBDV44AZE4FJBNI/
The media tried to make everything he said sound foolish. He said a way to get bleach inside the body to disinfect. Public water has chlorine in it to disinfect it so people do consume chlorinated water. He said get light in the body & then there was that research about getting uv light in the body to treat Covid. The media twists everything he says.
But isn’t the purpose of the mask to keep our germs from spreading to other people? I think most germs spread from the nose & mouth when it comes to viruses. That’s why Fauci telling everyone not to wear masks in March 2020 was bad advice.
A number of medical systems in southwestern Pennsylvania say they won’t require staff to be vaccinated for COVID-19 without a federal mandate, which is currently tied up in the court system.
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced last month that all health care workers had to be vaccinated by Jan. 4, 2022, the chief medical officers of southwestern Pennsylvania's 12 health systems released a joint statement saying that they would fully comply with the rule: “We know that widespread vaccination is one key step in controlling this pandemic.”
But after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on the mandate on Tuesday, just two of the signatories say they are going forward with this pledge. Allegheny Health Network’s chief medical officer Dr. Don Whiting said requiring the vaccine keeps patients and employees safe.
“As health care leaders, it shows the community that we believe in the science and we're willing to walk the walk,” said Whiting.
AHN faces no apparent legal risk as there is precedence that allows medical providers to make vaccination a condition of employment. Still, Whiting predicts the federal mandate will eventually be upheld, so arguably AHN is just getting out ahead of the inevitable.
Mary Crossley of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Health Law and Bioethics agrees the mandate will win on appeal. “I think that while it may take going to multiple courts or through multiple levels of the court system, I would predict that the Biden administration is likely to prevail.”
Even so, it appears a majority of southwest Pennsylvania’s dozen medical systems won’t require the vaccine without the mandate. These include Butler, Conemaugh, Excela, Penn Highlands and Washington health systems.
https://www.wesa.fm/health-science-tech/2021-12-03/without-federal-mandate-most-southwest-pennsylvania-hospitals-back-off-covid-19-vaccine-requirement