While many people are fortunate enough to ignore Covid or try to put as much distance between themselves and the life altering pandemic, others, including people throughout Long Island, are battling long Covid symptoms that affect the quality of their lives.
U.S. measles cases grew by 25% in a week to reach 378 this year, adding to an outbreak that has already outpaced last year's total. The CDC reported 77 new confirmed cases on Friday. The outbreak has now spread to 17 states. Last year's total cases were 285. Texas reported 30 additional cases on Friday, bringing its total to 309. West Texas is home to the epicenter of the US outbreak, and had the first confirmed measles death in the US in more than a decade. New Mexico, the next hardest-hit state, reported four new cases on Friday, bring its total to 42.
With its measles outbreak spreading to two additional states, Texas is on track to becoming the cause of a national epidemic if it doesn't start vaccinating more people, according to public health experts.
More and more U.S. hospitals are being bought by private equity firms. Sudden closures and layoffs are having a devastating effect on resident doctors' careers.
Healthcare institutions continue to serve foods of poor nutritional quality in their vending machines, cafeterias, and patient meals. If they are really committed to supporting better access to nutritious foods, then they need to remove junk food from their campuses.
In the earliest iterations of federal care for aging and disabled former service members, officials saw achieving a balance between the desire for efficiency and the need to provide American veterans with comfort and good care as not only possible, but essential. When the quest for efficiency upended this balance in the past, previous administrations have listened to veterans who objected. If the Trump Administration begins to focus on maximizing efficiency at any cost, and ignores warnings about how it weakens care, they will be ignoring a formula that has governed since the 19th century.