For pregnant and nursing women, risks of COVID-19 probably outweigh risk of vaccine, experts say
According to a November study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pregnant women are significantly more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit, to end up on a ventilator, and to die from COVID-19 than women of the same age and health status who aren t pregnant.
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Jack M. Fields, 84, died Dec. 23, 2020, at the Ohio State University-Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. Jack was born Sept. 19, 1936, in Bluffton to the late Robert and Gertrude (Free) Fields. On Aug. 16, 1957, he married Carol Moser Fields who survives.
Jack graduated from Bluffton High School where he was the all-time leading scorer for 44 years with 916 points and will be remembered as an outstanding rebounder.
He played varsity basketball for three years and was a member of the 1955-56 Non-County Championship basketball team. After graduation, he played on Harry Klay s town team in the semi-professional basketball league.
Ison warned that if significant mitigation measures aren’t put in place nationally, the number of cases and deaths will continue to rise.
“The message is for people to keep focused on what is individually within their control and work on countering some of that sadness and loneliness,” said Abigail Turner, associate professor of epidemiology and internal medicine at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. “Find safe ways to be with people. Pull out your blankets and your warmest coats and sit in the winter sunshine … Call and play games over the internet … The end is in sight, but it’s not here.”
Believe it or not, there was more going on in the healthcare universe in 2020 than the response to the coronavirus pandemic and we ve compiled a list of stories to prove it.
Understandably, the coronavirus pandemic dominated the headlines this year, not just with HealthLeaders, but with pretty much every media outlet on the planet.
Still, our savvy pillar editors reported on scores of healthcare stories that were not centered around that dreaded virus.
So, we thought we d share a collection of some of non-COVID-19 content in 2020, if nothing else than to remind us all that we will get through this scourge and life will continue.
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