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(NEW YORK) A group of moms from across the country celebrated Mother’s Day this year with one wish to find the bone marrow donors who will save their daughters’ lives.
“If she gets the bone marrow transplant, she’ll be a normal baby,” Anessa Haden said of her 8-month-old daughter, True, who has been told by doctors she likely won’t live past the age of 3 without a matching donor. “A bone marrow transplant is literally her hope to a long life.”
True was diagnosed three months ago with congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia (CAMT), a rare disease in which bone marrow no longer produces platelets, which are critical to blood clotting and preventing bleeding, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
County Remains in Orange Tier
Following Tuesday’s tier assessment, Santa Barbara County remained in the orange tier of the state s Blueprint for a Safer Economy.
The county reported an adjusted case rate of 4.6 daily new cases per 100,000 people, a 1.6% testing positivity rate, and a 1.9% health equity testing positivity rate.
Do-Reynoso also shared Public Health’s quarterly COVID-19 report for the months of January through March, highlighting local case, hospitalization, and death trends.
The number of local cases peaked in January, Do-Reynoso said, with the highest number of daily active cases on Jan. 13 at 3,256 cases. Concurrent with the surge in cases, COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths climbed over January and into early February.
Finding a doctor in rural America getting tougher, experts say
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Experts say it is getting increasingly difficult to find a doctor or hospital in rural areas of the United States. Photo by fernandozhiminaicela/Pixabay
Health care in rural America has become ever more scarce during the coronavirus pandemic, with folks finding it increasingly difficult to find a doctor or get to a hospital.
For a decade, rural areas have been losing hospitals to financial problems, forcing residents to either drive long distances or shrug their shoulders and forgo needed care.
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Add to that a nationwide shortage of doctors, and you can see the health care pinch that s been posed for rural parts of the nation.
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Brianna Hickman of West Virginia Northern Community College is counting on zero balances for some studentsâ college costs. Thanks to a federal grant aimed at opioid addiction, students in a substance abuse prevention and intervention program may have all educational costs covered.
WHEELING When Operation Warp Speed took aim at a virus that sprang to Goliath-sized in early 2020 going on to kill more than 500,000 Americans in a single year the big-funding method seemed to work. Vaccines were generated. Clinics popped up like dandelions. The dying slowed.
Yet, that other giant of a healthcare problem an opioid epidemic that has killed about 800,000 Americans since it began in the 1990s continues to rack up deaths, with overdose fatalities accelerating as pandemic deaths slowly fade.