Updated 5/7/2021 3:09 PM
For the last three years, North West Housing Partnership (NWHP) has paved the way to independence for senior citizens 65 and up to age in place and remain in their homes.
Through the CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders) program, barriers that would otherwise prevent seniors from living independently are addressed through coordinated visits from an occupational therapist (OT), a registered nurse (RN) and a handyperson.
The vital importance of this program was amplified over the last year through the pandemic. It enabled seniors to remain in a safer home environment away from rampant COVID-19 exposures, which were widely publicized in group or assisted living facilities. Additionally, emergency room visits, and hospital stays either decreased or were eliminated entirely - keeping this vulnerable population safely away from healthcare facilities where in some, COVID-19 cases were skyrocketing.
Published 7 May 2021
A mobile app that uses crowd-sourced data on COVID-19 symptoms can accurately identify where local coronavirus outbreaks will appear, according to scientists who developed the app. “COVID Control” using self-reported virus symptom information could predict next outbreak.
A mobile app that uses crowd-sourced data on COVID-19 symptoms can accurately identify where local coronavirus outbreaks will appear, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists who developed the app.
The Johns Hopkins team launched the “COVID Control” app in May 2020 and have been studying how user-reported COVID-19 symptoms can predict potential outbreaks of the virus, enabling public health leaders to enact measures to contain the virus’ spread. Results of the researchers’ findings were published February 25, in
Organ transplant recipients remain vulnerable to COVID-19 even after second vaccine dose: Study ANI | Updated: May 07, 2021 08:47 IST
Washington [US], May 7 (ANI): Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that two doses of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 the virus that causes COVID-19 confers some protection for people who have received solid organ transplants, it s still not enough to enable them to dispense with COVID safety measures including masks and physical distancing.
The findings that were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
This is a follow-up study to an earlier one published in March in JAMA, in which the researchers reported that only 17 per cent of the participating transplant recipients produced sufficient antibodies after just one dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine regimen.
Yet even as public health mandates continued to relax across most of the state, they acknowledged during a news conference that declines in daily COVID-19 cases early in 2021 had leveled off and were ticking upward again.
On April 29, data from the state health department showed the seven-day average of daily cases at 227, slightly over the state s goal of 210. The spread rate, which measures new infections per case, sat right at the state s target of 1:05.
Vaccinations were outpacing new infections by a ratio of 50:1, according to state Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase, but that ratio has declined from a previous high of 72:1.
The Eatonville School District in Washington state already hosted its own vaccination clinic for high school students soon after eligibility expanded to include everyone over the age of 16.
Ahead of the on-site vaccination day, information was sent to 350 families in the district. Of the 100 parents that followed up, only 50 said they would allow their child to be vaccinated. On the day of the clinic, just 27 of those students showed up.
Although the district will strongly encourage all students to get vaccinated as soon as they are eligible, vaccine hesitancy remains a significant hurdle, according to Eatonville s superintendent, Krestin Bahr.
That is part of the reason the school district would stop short of mandating vaccinations before returning to school in the fall, Bahr said.