Dr. Selina Mahmood: I was scared. . I wavered. (Photo: Facebook) The first year of Selina Mahmood s neurology residency at Henry Ford Health System was scary, historic and unusually instructive. Daily experiences were so vivid as Covid escalated rapidly that the physician-in-training kept a journal and turned it into a book, A Pandemic in Residence: Essays from a Detroit Hospital. It’s part-diary of an eventful March through December last year, and part-essays with philosophic reflections and literary references. Quotes and namechecks include Yeats, Joan Didion, Noam Chomsky and Vladimir Nabokov. Dr. Mahmood recalls the chilling reality of a turning point last spring:
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Covid-19 vaccines and infertility
Even with 330 million Covid-19 shots in arms and 114 million people fully and safely vaccinated, many folks are still hesitant to get a jab. Among the reasons? Misinformation on social media and elsewhere that the vaccine may cause infertility or bad pregnancy outcomes.
Three major medical organizations say there s no evidence to back this up, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), they stress that vaccines are safe.
Despite the experts all agreeing that the vaccine is safe for women who are pregnant or wanting to get pregnant, people still have questions. Here s what you need to know about Covid-19 vaccines and infertility.
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NextCycle Michigan to spark the state s recycling and recovery economy
Date: May 11, 2021
In the biggest recycling announcement in Michigan since the bottle bill in 1976, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy said the largest collaborative effort in state history will spark the state s recycling and recovery economy.
Leaders of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy joined with the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, bipartisan lawmakers and Meijer to announce NextCycle Michigan, a unique public-private partnership designed to attract end markets for recyclable materials through new companies and new jobs in Michigan, leveraging state dollars with private investment.
Dr. Selina Mahmood: I was scared. . I wavered. (Photo: Facebook) The first year of Selina Mahmood s neurology residency at Henry Ford Health System was scary, historic and unusually instructive. Daily experiences were so vivid as Covid escalated rapidly that the physician-in-training kept a journal and turned it into a book, A Pandemic in Residence: Essays from a Detroit Hospital. It’s part-diary of an eventful March through December last year, and part-essays with philosophic reflections and literary references. Quotes and namechecks include Yeats, Joan Didion, Noam Chomsky and Vladimir Nabokov. Dr. Mahmood recalls the chilling reality of a turning point last spring:
It felt like a war. And the doctors, nurses and health care workers at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing were losing.
“We’re battling out there, but no new troops are coming,” said Dr. Paul Entler, Sparrow’s Vice President of Quality and Performance Improvement.
It was March, and Michigan’s third COVID-19 surge seemed to have no end in sight: 3,000, then 4,000, eventually more than 7,000 new daily cases on average at the peak in April.
Sparrow Hospital in Lansing.
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Sparrow was running out of space. “It was really a grim situation . We re looking at capacity, beds, our staffing models. And you always worry about the health care workers, where they just keep absorbing these blows,” Entler said.