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Essentia Cardiologist Talks Heart Attack, Stroke Prevention on Go Red for Women Day
Cardiologist Dr. Katie Benziger Explains Why We Go Red for Women on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021
February 5, 2021
Go Red for Women Day serves to raise awareness for heart attack and stroke among women.
According to the American Heart Association, more women than men die from cardiovascular disease each year.
It’s estimated one in three women will die due to complications with heart disease or stroke.
“Every day in my clinic I see women who suffer from heart disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, all sort of different conditions that affect the heart,” said Dr. Katie Benziger, a cardiologist with Essentia Health in Duluth.
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Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday said Minnesota has a golden opportunity against COVID-19 because a more stable vaccine supply is coming at the same time as the pandemic has dropped below a key measure for severity.
Following a tour of a mass vaccination site in Brooklyn Center, the governor said he was encouraged because the positivity rate of diagnostic testing for COVID-19 had dropped below 5% in Minnesota for only the second time since Sept. 17. The rate peaked at 15.5% on Nov. 10 amid a severe wave that filled hospitals to near capacity. That is a huge win for all of us, Walz said. That means less people are getting it, it s spreading at a slower rate, and more people are getting vaccinated. So we re starting to win that fight a little bit.
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Buildings from Essentia Health-St. Mary s Medical Center (left) and St. Luke s hospital dominate this aerial view of Duluth s Central and East Hillside neighborhoods. (2017 file / News Tribune)
Duluth s two health care systems, Essentia Health and St. Luke s, are now weeks into offering monoclonal antibodies as a COVID-19 treatment for people with mild to moderate symptoms and at high risk of becoming hospitalized.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization of the treatment in November. Shortly after, the federal government began distributing the treatment to states.
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Infectious disease nurse practitioner Sherry Johnson (right), of Duluth, gives infectious disease physician Sara Lund a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine on Friday at St. Luke s hospital in Duluth. Dr. Lund is pregnant and believes she is the first pregnant woman in the Northland receiving the vaccine. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)