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WATERTOWN, Mass., June 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ One thing has remained constant with U.S. healthcare: it keeps getting more expensive. The American Medical Association reports
1 that medical expenditures increased by 4.6% in 2019 to $3.8 trillion. This followed a 4.7% jump in 2018 and 4.6% increase in 2016. At the same time, medical waste is one of the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., according to Alan Robin, MD, emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins University, and studies
2 show that one staffed hospital bed alone produces more than 30 pounds of waste per day.
These interrelated issues are flash points for consumers, who are concerned with paying more for less healthcare and increasingly outraged about climate change. To enable hospitals to save money
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WATERTOWN, Mass., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A new study
1 published by JAMA Network proves that individuals, in this case, young, healthy, male basketball players, who tested positive for COVID-19 but were asymptomatic, did not spread the virus despite being in a closed, isolation bubble over a period of months.
Over approximately four months, nearly 4,000 basketball players, staff, and vendors interacted in indoor, unmasked, close contact activities that involved direct exposure between persistent positive cases and noninfected individuals. All the people in the closed environment participated in a regular, supervised testing program. The study concluded that recovered individuals who continued to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 following discontinuation of isolation were not infectious to others.
Coronavirus update: Vaccination totals still rising, Los Angeles ready to loosen restrictions
Study findings show that there’s a lot of potency in that first shot 05/05/2021
Total U.S. confirmed cases: 32,514,808 (32,477,368)
Total U.S. deaths: 578,524 (577,671)
Total global cases: 154,469,379 (153,676,825)
Total global deaths: 3,230,336 (3,216,016)
Despite slowdown, U.S. vaccination numbers still rising
The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus (COVID-19) has slowed, but the numbers continue to steadily rise. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 44.5% of the U.S. population has received at least one shot of vaccine and 32% are fully vaccinated.
Most of the population that’s 65 and older 82.9% have received at least one shot, while 69.8% have completed the vaccination process. Health officials believe that is one reason case counts and deaths have fallen in recent weeks.
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