California COVID-19 surge leaves hospital nurses frustrated over staffing shortages The state s nurses union urges Congress to pass President Biden s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
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Roughly a year into the pandemic, healthcare workers across the country are taking care of record numbers of COVID-19 patients, and many are doing so without access to optimal personal protective equipment, testing, safe staffing levels and other infection control policies.
In California, which has surpassed three million cases, nurses are facing an especially daunting task of caring for the more than 20,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients amid dwindling intensive care unit capacities, according to state COVID-19 data.
Black Americans are receiving covid vaccinations at dramatically lower rates than white Americans in the first weeks of the chaotic rollout, according to a new KHN analysis.
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COVID vaccine distribution in the Bay Area: Here s what you need to know
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Respiratory care practitioner Raul Aguilar receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, Monday.Jae C. Hong / Associated Press
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The U.S. coronavirus vaccine rollout has been much slower than anticipated, with only 4 million doses distributed so far versus the 20 million promised. California’s inoculation efforts also are off to a slow start, with less than one-third of the available doses administered so far, officials say.