by Jim Heath | Dec 1, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
A new internal federal government map shows that nearly the entire United States has become one giant coronavirus hotspot. The map, produced by the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (DHHS) and exclusively obtained by Yahoo! News, has...
by Jim Heath | Nov 30, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
Dr. Scott Atlas, a highly controversial member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, has resigned from his post in the Trump administration. Atlas, who had no formal experience in public health or infectious diseases, turned in his resignation letter to...
by Jim Heath | Nov 30, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Joe Biden, Trump
Each week, good news about vaccines or antibody treatments surfaces, offering hope that an end to the pandemic is at hand. And yet this holiday season presents a grim reckoning. The United States has reached an appalling milestone: more than one million new...
by Jim Heath | Nov 29, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
Photographer Go Nakamura has visited a COVID-19 intensive care unit in Houston about 20 times, but he never gets used to what he sees there. Taking photos too graphic to share; seeing patients one day who will be gone when he returns later in the week – there’s...
by Jim Heath | Nov 29, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
The number of COVID-19 patients currently being treated in hospitals across the United States nearly doubled in the last month, hitting more than 91,000 over the Thanksgiving weekend. As of Saturday 91,635 Americans were hospitalized with the virus, according to the...
