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By Carey Goldberg, WBUR Reporter February 18, 2021 Carey Goldberg, WBUR Reporter Dr. Daniel Solomon wasn’t just scared of a bad flu season. With the coronavirus still circulating, he was scared of even a normal flu season. “I was concerned about overwhelming our hospital capacity,” he said. “Our ICUs have been running on a thin margin, and I was concerned that if there was an additional surge of influenza, we just wouldn’t have the resources to care for patients.” Solomon is an infectious diseases doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he and colleagues review the flu num...

Infectious disease specialists had feared a double hit from both flu and COVID-19, but it appears that measures to stem COVID have also kept the flu at bay.

Health experts agree that the best way to end the COVID-19 pandemic is to vaccinate our way out of it. Unfortunately, Americans' willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine is waning, even as a punishing third wave claims well over 1,000 U.S. lives each day. The latest evidence for this appears this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and it shows that skepticism toward the vaccines is on the rise among Americans of all stripes. Regardless of age, race or sex, U.S. adults were significantly less likely to say they'd get vaccinated in late November and early December than they w...

Into the space between the two trains and was lying on the tracks. miraculously she was awake and conscience. i think she was a little bit in shock. she was confused and lethargic but i started talking to her. she even started to give me her hand. another good samaritan and i pulled her into the train and passed her off to the triage area that had sort of just erupted and that's when i started going over all of the other injured. she was lethargic and confused and she had a weak pulse and i was concerned that she was the most significantly injured and another woman who had been pulled out look...

People to kind of apply pressure to cervical spines. was it an issue of a lot of broken bones or for the most part people who were very shaken? >> well, as i mentioned, i think the most significant injuries were fractured ribs and a pretty badly broken pelvis. then there was another young lady that had a pretty severe bilateral fracture dislocation of her ankle. it was fairy horrific to look at but she had strong pulses in her feet and was able to move her toes so i think that after an open reduction she's going to be okay. >> well, thank goodness you were there. i know a lot of folks who were...