With COVID cases and hospitalizations rising, Geisinger medical officer warns of consequences if curve is not flattened
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Turbotville, Pa. â Warrior Run School District has managed to keep COVID-19 case numbers down, thanks to mitigation efforts and a partnership with Geisinger Health System.
Dr. Alan Hack, superintendent at Warrior Run School District, credits the low case numbers to their vigilance in mitigation efforts â masking, social distancing, hand washing, and contact tracing.
The district, which has a total of 1,500 students, started the school year with students attending in-person five days per week. They switched to a hybrid model after Thanksgiving, when case numbers in the community started rising substantially. Eighty-five percent of the student body had been attending in-person when the school year began, according to Hack.
Demand is low for COVID-19 antibody drugs but shortages loom
FILE - This photo provided by Eli Lilly shows the drug Bamlanivimab, the first antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19. Antibodies are made by the immune system to fight the virus but it can take several weeks after infection for the best ones to form. This and a Regeneron medication aim to help right away, by supplying concentrated doses of one or two antibodies that worked best in lab tests. (Courtesy of Eli Lilly via AP)
Published December 19. 2020 12:15AM
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer
U.S. health officials are seeing an astonishing lack of demand for COVID-19 medicines that may help keep infected people out of the hospital, drugs they rushed out to states over the past few weeks as deaths set new records.
Demand is low for COVID-19 antibody drugs but shortages loom
Marilynn Marchione
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FILE - This photo provided by Eli Lilly shows the drug Bamlanivimab, the first antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19. Antibodies are made by the immune system to fight the virus but it can take several weeks after infection for the best ones to form. This and a Regeneron medication aim to help right away, by supplying concentrated doses of one or two antibodies that worked best in lab tests. (Courtesy of Eli Lilly via AP) (Eli Lilly)
U.S. health officials are seeing an astonishing lack of demand for COVID-19 medicines that may help keep infected people out of the hospital, drugs they rushed out to states over the past few weeks as deaths set new records.
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