Pandemic exposes social inequities, creates backlogs of care, Mayo specialists say Over the past year, COVID-19 testing sites proliferated across Arizona, including this one at ASU’s Tempe campus. (Source: Cronkite News) By Samantha Molina | February 5, 2021 at 1:29 PM MST - Updated February 5 at 1:30 PM
PHOENIX – From the importance of personal protective equipment to dealing with the harsh isolation of quarantined patients, the medical community learned countless lessons during the first year of COVID-19, a pandemic unprecedented in modern times.
“Limiting it to one (lesson), it is how profound it is that social inequity kills people,” said Dr. Andrew Badley, infectious diseases specialist and head of the COVID-19 Research Task Force at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
A panel of Mayo Clinic specialists reflected on the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the medical community’s response, sharing lessons they learned along the way.
La Crosse County employees have the opportunity to roll up their sleeves and get a COVID-19 vaccine this week
February 3, 2021 5:05 PM Isabella Hulsizer
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) This week, the amount of COVID-19 positive cases in La Crosse County decreased to about two positives to every ten. And although the community risk remains in the High level, hope is on the horizon for some La Crosse County workers. And now, some county employees will have the opportunity to roll up their sleeves on Friday.
The time for La Crosse County workers to receive the Covid-19 vaccine has come.
“We this week got our first 100 doses, and we’ll start administering them on Friday,” said Rachel King, a Health Educator for the La Crosse County Health Department.