Quality of Minnesota’s COVID data for Hmong questioned
Over the course of the pandemic, health educator Chao Yang spent months talking to key contacts about COVID-19 in the Twin Cities Asian community, but efforts to get an Asian-targeted approach from state and local governments ended in a roadblock.
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Frederick Melo / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 6:22 am, May 7, 2021 ×
Eagan, Minn., resident Sithoeun Chem discusses his next COVID vaccination appointment with registered nurse and volunteer vaccinator Mai Pa Vang at the Hmong Medical Association’s clinic at Hmong Village Shopping Center on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. Emma Gottschalk / St. Paul Pioneer Press
Quality of Minnesota’s COVID data for Hmong questioned
Over the course of the pandemic, health educator Chao Yang spent months talking to key contacts about COVID-19 in the Twin Cities Asian community, but efforts to get an Asian-targeted approach from state and local governments ended in a roadblock.
Written By:
Frederick Melo / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 6:22 am, May 7, 2021 ×
Eagan, Minn., resident Sithoeun Chem discusses his next COVID vaccination appointment with registered nurse and volunteer vaccinator Mai Pa Vang at the Hmong Medical Association’s clinic at Hmong Village Shopping Center on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. Emma Gottschalk / St. Paul Pioneer Press
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This plastic debris was typical along a channel which connects Lake Michigan and Duck Lake north of Muskegon.
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There’s been a lot of news about the amount of plastic debris in the oceans. But plastic pollution is also affecting the Great Lakes. A study out of the Rochester Institute of Technology estimates 22 million pounds of plastic debris enters the Great Lakes from the U.S. and Canada each year.
Lynn Knopf with Duck Creek Watershed Assembly snaps a photo of some of the volunteers who showed up to pick up trash at Duck Lake State Park along Lake Michigan.
Inaccurate Death Records Obscure Pandemic’s True Story
Overwhelmed public health departments and front-line workers have for months failed to record accurate health histories for COVID-19 victims, a review of California’s internal pandemic death records found.
May 03, 2021 • (TNS) - When California looks back on the COVID-19 pandemic the most significant health crisis in modern history, with tens of thousands of deaths so far medical researchers will find some of the most basic details remarkably incomplete.
Overwhelmed public health departments and front-line workers have for months failed to record accurate health histories for COVID-19 victims, a Sacramento Bee review of the state s internal pandemic death records found.
It s shocking. How inaccurate California death records obscure pandemic s true story
Sacramento Bee 2 hrs ago Jason Pohl, Ryan Sabalow, and Phillip Reese, The Sacramento Bee
May 3 When California looks back on the COVID-19 pandemic the most significant health crisis in modern history, with tens of thousands of deaths so far medical researchers will find some of the most basic details remarkably incomplete.
Overwhelmed public health departments and front-line workers have for months failed to record accurate health histories for COVID-19 victims, a Sacramento Bee review of the state s internal pandemic death records found.
The records show a Fresno County man in his 60s died of COVID-19 with an otherwise clean medical history. But that s not necessarily because he didn t have underlying conditions that contributed to his death; more likely, no one bothered to enter those conditions into a state disease surveillance database.