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Covid-19 pandemic exposes weakness of medical system Kiyohiko Yoneyama and Masanori Tonegawa, The Japan News Jan. 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail TOKYO - A shortage of hospital beds for covid-19 patients in metropolitan areas has become particularly serious amid the latest surge in novel coronavirus infections. However, the number of infection cases in Japan has been significantly lower than in Western countries, and Japan has the highest number of hospital beds per capita in the world. To make e...

ICU availability dropping in Northeast Florida counties Some medical facilities are preparing to stretch their ICU resources to the limit Updated:  Tags:  As COVID-19 cases surge, many area hospitals’ intensive care units are full or near full. One of them is Baptist Medical Center Nassau, which had no available ICU space as of Monday evening, according to the state Agency for Health Care Administration. By Tuesday afternoon, one ICU bed had become available there, but across Northeast Flor...

Californias vaccination efforts are off to a slow start. Heres why FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Shi He Huang recieves her Moderna vaccination from Ami Li during staff vaccinations at On Lok in S.F.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Barnaby Hall looks for more On Lok staff coming in. About 600 are being vaccinated by a team from Chinese Hospital.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6 Elsa Ng directs Kong Sayarad to the room where staffers were be...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas on Tuesday adjusted its rollout of the coronavirus...

Only. and in california, where many icus are at capacity, the famed santa monica pier has been shut down. the cdc and cities like san francisco urging people to stay home. >> do not celebrate with folks or people outside of your family or people that you do not live together with. >> all right, trevor ault is live from times square. and trevor, as i look at your shot right now, ive reported down there in times square on other new years eve, and it is incredible how quiet, how empty it is. we hav...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The number of people in Arkansas hospitalized because of the...

Are Bay Area hospital numbers flattening? Some see possible signs of a plateau FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Heather Bollinger (left), a registered nurse at San Francisco General Hospital, gives a tour to San Francisco Department of Public Health nurses for possible deployment to an overflow hospital site amid the surge.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Cubicles for patients in a dorm on a tour during disaster training for San Francisco Department of Public Health nurses for possib...

Seven days after taking the second shot. and that data released from the fda about the vaccine being safe and effective really does give a lot of people a lot of optimism about this vaccine being fully authorized for use across the united states in the next few days. david? >> all right, james longman live in london leading us off tonight. james, thank you. and authorities here in the u.s. are warning difficult months are still ahead of us, and as we all await that key fda meeting on thursday,...

Fauci to stay on in the same role in the biden administration. and biden saying when hes inaugurated, hell ask americans to wear masks for 100 days to help save lives. tonight, more than 14 million americans have now tested positive. more than 192,000 new cases in just the past 24 hours. and as i mentioned, more than 100,000 now fighting this virus in the hospital. deaths now surpassing the peak last spring. at least 275,000 american lives now lost. tonight, californias governor with that warnin...

Hospitalized with covid, a new record. >> its because of this virus, okay? >> if my beds are full of covid patients, i cant deal with those patients that need me when they come in with acute heart failure. we dont have staffing, so therefore, we dont have beds. >> reporter: the cdc extending its travel warning through the end of the year, pleading with people to stay home. as cases surge, the holiday season rush on testing continues. this drive through testing site in norwalk, connecticut, many ...