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ICU capacity shrinks at hospitals as they scramble to find enough staff to manage COVID surge Email to a Friend Physicians assistant Brendan Smith cared for a patient in a COVID unit at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff Hospitals in some parts of Massachusetts are watching their intensive-care capacity shrink at a worrisome pace, as they struggle to find enough staff to care for the rising number of severely ill COVID-19 patients. While ICU beds remain open in many hospitals, the number of available spots has been declining and hospitals expect capacity t...

Elderly Floridians will get vaccine before essential workers, DeSantis says “We are not going to put young, healthy workers ahead of our elderly, vulnerable population,” DeSantis said.     Gov. Ron DeSantis watches people be vaccinated for COVID-19 during a news event in The Villages on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. [ The Florida Channel ] Published Dec. 22, 2020 Updated Dec. 22, 2020 TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday declared elderly Floridians will be next in line to get vaccinated for COVID-19, before essential workers and younger people with underlying health condi...

Panel is set to recommend new guidelines for vaccine rollout this weekend Members have signaled they will prioritize essential workers over the elderly   UPenn professor Harald Schmidt explained, 'older populations are whiter'  Remarks drew backlash, but Schmidt denied favoring 'race-only prioritization'  He also argues that older people can more easily isolate than essential workers CDC director favors vaccinating those over 70 living with younger people   Ultimately, each state will decide how it rolls out the vaccine to residents 

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination campaign has begun, and the few available doses are mostly going into the arms of health care workers and nursing home residents. But what about in January, February and March, when more shots are expected to become available? Who should get those doses? (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) Photo: Associated Press By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Deciding t...

'Older people are whiter': Ivy League prof's logic in vaccine rollout Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com and Associated Press © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo The debate over who should receive COVID-19 vaccines next has intensified following suggestions that the elderly should be de-prioritized because they are more likely to be white. 'Older populations are whiter,' explained Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, in an interview with the New York Times. 'Society is structured in a way that enables them to live long...