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The Current Status of Addiction Recovery in Pennsylvania
By Stephen LaBar 12/29/20
The pandemic continues to affect virtually every aspect of American life, and that, sadly, also includes those suffering with an addiction - including opioids.
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“The concerns we have are related to the big challenges people are facing right now with COVID: isolation and uncertainty resulting in very high levels of stress.”
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It’s holiday season, 2020. Undoubtedly, a different kind of festive season than normal for many Americans, but… it’s still the holidays,
nonetheless.
However, for many families, there’ll be empty places at the dinner table this year - loved ones missing not because of the dreaded and awful coronavirus pandemic that continues to tragically affect the U.S., but from
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Dr. Don Yealy, UPMC’s chair of emergency medicine, speaks at a virtual news conference Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020.
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Flu cases both locally and across Pennsylvania have remained low compared to the record-breaking case counts seen in the 2019-20 flu season. But doctors cautioned Tuesday it’s still early in the season, and the usual January uptick could coincide with a holiday-driven surge in covid-19 cases.
As of Dec. 19, there have been 767 lab-confirmed cases of influenza reported across Pennsylvania. The official surveillance season for influenza begins the 40th week of the year this season, Sept. 27 and ends the 20th week of the following year. This season will end May 22.
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Sample collection for COVID-19 tests are administered at a Central Outreach Wellness Center testing site in the parking lot of the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium on March 24.
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Director of the Allegheny County Health Department Dr. Debra Bogen speaks during a news conference about the rising number of local covid-19 cases at Point State Park on Nov. 12.
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Chief Quality Officer Tamra Minnier preps the arm of Children’s Hospital Emergency Medicine Physician Sylvia Owusu-Ansah prior to administering Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine to her at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh on Dec. 14. Owusu-Ansah was one of the first UPMC healthcare workers to receive the vaccination.
Seldom is a subject such an obvious choice for story of the year.
But unlike 2001’s 9/11 or 2016’s election, the coronavirus story kept happening day after day after day. Like the virus itself, the story just wouldn’t stop.
It appears it will consume 2021 as well.
From reports of a “new illness” in China in January to the approval and distribution of vaccines in December, the tale of covid-19 is complex. It’s been an incredible, agonizing, frustrating, infuriating, daunting and deadly journey.
Coronavirus’ story actually began in December 2019, when 41 cases were first identified in Wuhan, China. Many researchers believe the virus originated in bats, although further studies are being conducted.