Tom Inglesby
Director of @JHSPH_CHS, working to protect people from epidemics & disasters. Inf diseases, pub health, research, policy
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More than 1,700 U.S. healthcare workers have died from COVID-19, nurses' union says
More than 1,700 healthcare workers have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, according to a new report from one of the largest nurses' unions in the country.
Tom Inglesby
As of a month ago, more than 1700 health care workers had died form COVID, and that likely underestimates many different kinds of workers within the health care system that are harder to count. 18/x
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WHO warns giving up on efforts to control Covid-19 would be 'dangerous'
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows seemed to indicate the Trump administration has concluded containment of the virus is not possible.
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.@WHO: 'The alternative [to working to contain COVID] is to face a “tsunami of cases” that will put the health and lives of health care workers in jeopardy and cripple health care systems, he said. “You run out of capacity to cope.”
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'We're headed in the wrong direction': Saint Francis uses ad to ask for public's help fighting COVID-19 amid record hospitalizations | Local News | tulsaworld.com
<p>Jake Henry Jr., president and CEO of Saint Francis, said he doesn't think the trend is sustainable for Saint Francis — the largest health care system in Oklahoma — and that it has hired 18 contract registered nurses as the influx rises.</p>
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Hospital in Oklahoma having to take out an Ad to communicate to public that it's at critical capacity. While the governor has no mask mandate or restrictions on gatherings or bars. Local leaders stepping up when state leaders are in absentia.
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Lethal indifference to Florida prisoners dying of COVID-19 | Editorial
Florida prisoners are being infected and dying at dramatically higher rates than the general population, and Gov. DeSantis and the Cabinet are failing to respond, let alone consider a reasonable idea.
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"COVID-19 has killed 154 Florida prison inmates... Florida prisoners are being infected and dying at dramatically higher rates than Florida’s overall population — more than four times higher as to infections, half again as great as with deaths."
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Medical professionals push back after Trump says COVID-19 cases are inflated to 'get more money'
Medical professionals are pushing back after President Donald Trump accused "doctors and hospitals" of inflating COVID-19 patient counts to "get more money" during a campaign rally Saturday in Wisconsin.
Tom Inglesby
"These baseless claims not only do a disservice to our health care heroes but promulgate the dangerous wave of misinformation which continues to hinder our nation's efforts to get the pandemic under control and allow our nation to return to normalcy."
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Despite COVID-19 surge, thousands attend Trump rally in Waukesha
President Trump is not letting the coronavirus get in his way in hopes of winning Wisconsin after he hosted his second rally in the battleground state in the last week.
Tom Inglesby
“In Waukesha, WI, President Trump held a rally at Stein Aircraft Services with thousands of supporters in attendance, many without masks, despite the state ranking one of the worst in the country, shattering COVID-19 records”
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Wisconsin court blocks governors restrictions on indoor public gatherings despite COVID-19 surge
A Wisconsin appeals court issued a temporary block on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers restrictions on indoor gatherings Friday, even as the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in state shattered records for the second day in a row.
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Despite rapidly increasing and record highs in the state’s numbers of COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths, “Wisconsin court blocks governors restrictions on indoor public gatherings”
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Utah hospitals discussing plan to ration ICU care with governor as coronavirus cases surge in the state
Hospitals in Utah could soon be forced begin prioritizing younger COVID-19 patients over older ones in some cases amid surging rate of hospitalizations from the virus in the state, according to a plan presented to Utah's governor on Thur
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“Hospitals in Utah could soon be forced begin prioritizing younger COVID-19 patients over older ones in some cases amid surging rate of hospitalizations from the virus in the state”
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Texas governor requests use of El Paso-area military hospital for non-COVID-19 patients as cases surge
The request comes as COVID-19 cases have been surging throughout Texas and the country.
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TX is one of 39 states w/ rising cases // “Authorities are scrambling to shore up resources in El Paso, where ICUs hit full capacity on Saturday and where covid-19 hospitalizations have nearly quadrupled to almost 800 in less than 3 wks”
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Idaho board repeals mask mandate despite hospitals full with coronavirus cases
Moments after hearing an Idaho hospital was overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients and looking at sending people as far away as Seattle for care, members of a regional health department board voted Thursday to repeal a local mask mandate.
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Idaho is now at weekly all time high in COVID cases // “Gov Little has declined to issue a statewide mask mandate or limit crowd sizes beyond requiring social distancing at large events and in businesses, which is seldom enforced.” 1/x
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COVID-19 Beyond The Numbers: Governor’s advice conflicts with SD Health Department
South Dakota is setting new COVID-19 records just about everyday.
Tom Inglesby
“S Dakota is setting new COVID-19 records...Local leaders and doctors are responding to the surge by urging people to wear masks and social distance. Governor Kristi Noem continues to question whether either of those things will protect you from the virus”
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It Was the Worst Day of the Pandemic. The Nation Is Almost There Again.
The United States reported more new cases of the coronavirus on July 16 than on any other day of the last seven months. The country is now nearing that record.
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“North Dakota this week, hospitals are striving to find available beds. The state now has the worst rate of infection in the country, relative to its population, and it is ending formal contact tracing except in health care settings, schools and colleges.”
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Some doctors fighting the pandemic now have another thing to worry about — CNN
For months Dr. Jinedra Satiya has faced fears on the frontlines of a deadly pandemic, treating coronavirus patients.
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Tom Inglesby
Proposed new immigration rule would threaten 12,000 doctors working in the US — during a pandemic when many have been putting themselves at risk and when hospitals in some places are near capacity. What a terrible proposal - should be rescinded.
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As Governor Resists Mask Mandate, Iowans Sour on the G.O.P.
Gov. Kim Reynolds has adopted President Trump’s defiant attitude toward public health guidance on the coronavirus. But while she isn’t on the ballot, her leadership may be dragging down Republicans who are.
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Iowa has reached record high cases and hospitalizations // Governor Reynolds “has called mask mandates ‘feel-good’ actions and refused to issue a statewide directive...At the same time, she has blocked municipalities from enforcing their own mask edicts.”
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Be the One | Prevent Epidemics
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Tom Inglesby
New valuable and practical recommendations on voting safely, with useful tool kit by preventepidemics.org/covid19/us-res… @ResolveTSL @DrTomFrieden
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The Worst Virus Outbreaks in the U.S. Are Now in Rural Areas
Rural counties of fewer than 10,000 people are seeing more coronavirus cases than at any other time during the pandemic.
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Tom Inglesby
One major vulnerability in some rural areas is the distance to a hospital(s) that can provide the kind of care needed for very sick COVID patients
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All 62 Residents in a Kansas Nursing Home Have Been Infected With COVID-19—And 10 Have Died
One person is currently hospitalized, and the rest are being quarantined in their rooms.
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Influenza doesn't do this and neither does any other infection: 100% of a nursing home infected w/ 10 of 62 having died so far
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Interim Commission Report - Welcome
Tom Inglesby
See new COVID Commission report from Council on Criminal Justice, chaired by Attorneys General Lynch and Gonzalez, counciloncj.foleon.com/covid19/report… that makes important recommendations on how to reduce transmission @CouncilonCJ 2/x
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Tom Inglesby
See new COVID Commission report from Council on Criminal Justice, chaired by Attorneys General Lynch and Gonzalez, counciloncj.foleon.com/covid19/report… that makes important recommendations on how to reduce transmission @CouncilonCJ 2/x
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More than 70 inmates and 16 workers at Cecil County jail test positive for COVID-19, a sharp increase, state says
Over 70 cases of COVID-19 have been reported inside of Cecil County jail, according to the state health department.
Tom Inglesby
Largest jail or prison outbreak in Maryland since start of pandemic. baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs… Need to do all possible to reduce COVID transmission in the criminal justice system. 1/x
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The false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19
Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course — embraced by Donald Trump’s administration and others — could bring “untold death and suffering”.