Osterholm urges caution this holiday season
By Erica Bouska
This is not the time to let our collective guard down.
That’s the statement from Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and newly appointed member of President-Elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board.“
This is the most dangerous moment in public health since the 1918 swine flu,” said Osterholm in a Thursday, Dec. 10 Driftless Journal interview.
The Waukon native and Luther College graduate said limiting physical contact with others and the number of people you see are necessary to remain safe this holiday season and beyond. To protect yourself and others from COVID-19, wear a face mask, practice social distancing and avoid breathing the same air space as people you aren’t in daily contact with. “People just have to understand this is not some hoax or politically motivated issue,” Osterholm said.
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Jean Hyde has been a good sport since the start of the pandemic.
She didn t complain when her adult daughters chalked Mother s Day wishes on her Woodbury driveway instead of taking her to brunch. She spent solo weekends at the family cabin, painting the porch instead of picnicking with her family. She listened to her 3-year-old grandson roar like a dinosaur on FaceTime instead of cuddling him on her lap.
After months of stoic rule-following, Hyde and her three daughters and their husbands were yearning to find a way to celebrate Christmas together. One of my daughters is pregnant and one of my sons-in-law has an autoimmune disorder. It s four different households, but I think we found a safe way to do this, Hyde said. We all work at home, so we are quarantining for two solid weeks.
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It is believed as people get older they are at higher risk of having chronic diseases.
December 11, 2020
The rapidly aging population has health professionals worried this could have major impacts.
Clinical experts are calling it the “Silver Tsunami.”
It is believed as people get older they are at higher risk of having chronic diseases.
As the population ages, more than three-quarters of individuals in the state are expected to have at least one chronic disease and a third is expected to have four or more.
“This is really robbing people of their quality of life, their independence, their ability to enjoy their retirement. On top of that, it’s really hard on the healthcare systems as well,” said Dr. Laura Niedernhofer, the director of the Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
KARE 11 Investigates: Unethical record of Minnesota’s largest jail health care provider
Led by a doctor reprimanded by the state medical board, a KARE 11 investigation finds MEnD Correctional Care now faces multiple federal lawsuits over inmate deaths Author: Brandon Stahl (KARE11), A.J. Lagoe, Steve Eckert Published: 7:18 PM EST December 10, 2020 Updated: 11:35 PM EST December 10, 2020
Dr. Todd Leonard sat before the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice, ready for his punishment.
An investigation by the state Attorney General’s office revealed a long list of what the board would call “unethical and unprofessional conduct.”
Among them: records show he repeatedly prescribed narcotics without documenting if his patients actually needed them; if he put them on the drugs, he often failed document their risk for suicide or addiction, then failed to see if they actually worked or if his patients were stealing the drugs.
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