The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average is 15.5 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 4.0 %
HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 16.9 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 201,555
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at a record 124,686 (for the next 9 days this is the number to watch as new cases and deaths will not be accurately reported)
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at a record 3,725
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 0.7% of the population
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â¨As the United States reports record deaths and hospitalizations from COVID-19 in the final days of 2020, we look at how the pandemic that ravaged the country this year has shone a stark new light on racism in medical care. In a viral video recorded by Black physician Dr. Susan Moore, she describes racist treatment by medical staff at a hospital in Indianapolis and says they did not respond to her pleas for care, despite being in intense pain and being a doctor herself. In the video, Dr. Moore says she had to beg to receive pain medication and the antiviral drug remdesivir, and accuses a doctor at Indiana University Health North Hospital of ignoring her pleas because she was Black. “I put forth, and I maintain: If I was white, I wouldn’t have to go through that,” she says. Dr. Moore died December 20, just over two weeks after she posted the video. She was 54 years old.
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Republican Congressman-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.), age 41, died after being hospitalized with COVID-19, the first member or member-elect of Congress to die from complications related to the coronavirus. (Politico)
As of 8:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the unofficial COVID-19 toll in the U.S. reached 19,516,148 cases and 338,656 deaths up 203,580 and 3,605, respectively, since this time a day ago.
The first reported U.S. case of the highly transmissible coronavirus variant was confirmed in Colorado, in a man with no travel history. The strain previously had been reported in the United Kingdom.
(Washington Post)
New Program Helps People With Diabetes Eat Healthy
Article origination WFYI-FM
FARAH YOUSRY - Side Effects Public Media
Standing in her kitchen, Therese Richardson is making her favorite recipe. “The honey dijon roasted pork tenderloin. I like that one,” the 50-year-old Indianapolis woman says.
Richardson has Type 2 diabetes, meaning that cells in her body are resistant to insulin, causing her blood sugar levels to rise. Eating vegetables and other healthy food helps her avoid serious complications and lowers blood sugar levels.
“I didn t like broccoli, but I had to have the cheese on it,” she says. “But if you cook it the right way with different recipes, I can eat it without the cheese on it.”
Indiana hospital CEO has accused a patient who died of COVID of being difficult
Dennis Murphy said Dr Susan Moore may have intimidated her nursing staff
Moore, 52, of Indianapolis, died on Sunday of COVID-19 complications
Moore posted video on Facebook on December 4 alleging racial discrimination
She said medical staff at Indiana Health North in Carmel gave inadequate care
Moore said staffers didn t believe her when she said she was in pain
She accused Dr Eric Bannec of not giving her medication when she needed it
Bannec allegedly told her that he didn t want to give Moore narcotics
After being released from hospital, her fever spiked and blood pressure dropped