While COVID-19 has claimed more than 13,000 lives in Michigan, many more likely died from cardiac arrest directly and indirectly attributable to the pandemic, researchers report.
A new study examined out-of-hospital cardiac arrest records in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties from March 23 through May 31, 2020. Researchers compared those records to data for the same period in 2019 and found that the number of cardiac arrests that occurred outside of hospitals soared to 1,854 during the early months of the pandemic, a 60% increase over the same period the year before.
Deaths from cardiac arrest also increased to 1,400 cases, a 42% jump from the previous year.
The increase in cardiac arrests and deaths due to cardiac arrests likely is attributable to several factors, both directly and indirectly related to COVID-19, says J. Adam Oostema, an associate professor of emergency medicine in the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and coauthor of the paper in
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Law firm Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge elected Michael E. Doversberger, Krista A. Jackson, Ashley C. Quackenbush, Rachael M. Roseman and Ryne J. Takacs as new shareholders with each representing a variety of practice areas.
“The firm is very excited to welcome these attorneys as shareholders,” Smith Haughey CEO Matt Wikander said. “These five have made exceptional contributions to not only their practice areas and groups but to the firm as a whole.”
Doversberger, who is based at the firm’s Holland office, focuses on business, real estate, intellectual property, franchise and employment law. He has experience in the litigation of commercial disputes, contracts and employment claims.
Michigan coronavirus vaccine mandates unlikely amid shortage and legal, ethical questions
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
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One day, it’s possible that getting a coronavirus vaccine will be more than just a recommendation.
It may, like other vaccines for things like hepatitis, the measles and chicken pox, become compulsory. Should you want to attend university, public schools, daycare, play sports, go to camp, visit your grandparents in a senior living facility or even just work in an office setting, documentation of inoculation or a waiver may become necessary.
But that day isn’t here yet.
“We’re not going to have a mandate that says everybody in the United States has to get this vaccine,” said Dr. B. Keith English, chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development in the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. “But we do have strategies and it could be mandated in certain settings.”
WKAR s Scott Pohl talks with recent MSU College of Nursing graduate Alexis Fox.
Alexis Fox of Clarkston, Michigan, was motivated to become a nurse while observing her mother’s care as a two-time breast cancer survivor. While a student at MSU, she also became her grandfather’s primary care provider during his battle with lung cancer. Fox will start her job in the blood center unit at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver, Colorado in a few months.
COVID-19 has made nursing a different, maybe scarier profession than it was when she and her classmates decided to go into nursing.
Midlander s vaccine PSA garners attention
Shares how it felt to get the COVID vaccine
Dec. 24, 2020
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Third-year Michigan State University medical student and Unionville native, Allison Hoppe, shared a PSA video about the COVID-19 vaccine to help spread accurate information. In just two days, her video received hundreds of engagements from her online community. (Screen photo/Facebook)
With so much misinformation and skepticism surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine, a local third-year medical student wanted to share her knowledge to help educate the community.
So, she created a short, impromptu PSA video about the vaccine and shared it to her personal Facebook page. In just two days, her video received more than 110 shares, more than 150 likes and more than 170 views on YouTube.