(CNN) — Hospitals across the United States have been facing a crisis. As of Monday morning, more than 96,000 hospital beds are filled with Covid-19 patients nationwide — contributing to the 77% of all hospital beds across the country being currently in use, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services. […]
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[bc_video video_id=”6231014977001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”rJpklujDf” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” playsinline=”” picture_in_picture=”” max_width=”640px” mute=”” width=”100%” height=”100%” ] After almost 4 decades of healthcare service in the Coachella Valley Desert Aids Project is changing with the times. They are rebranding as “dap Health.” Steven Henkie shares how exciting and inclusive the pivoting process was with Sandie Newton […]
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[bc_video video_id=”6225856447001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”rJpklujDf” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” playsinline=”” picture_in_picture=”” max_width=”640px” mute=”” width=”100%” height=”100%” ] In 1984, a group of volunteers founded Desert AIDS project to fight against the HIV epidemic. “It was an opportunity to provide health care to people, bring meals to people’s homes, and fight the isolation they were facing, and connect […]
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[bc_video video_id=”6168426916001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] “So, my day begins at about 4:45.” Andrew Kassinove is the Chief of Staff at JFK Medical Center and the Medical Director of the Emergency Room. “Get here by 6,” Kassinove said. “Then take over from the doctor getting off who’s been here since […]
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[bc_video video_id=”6148500546001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] David Brinkman the CEO Desert AIDS Project, the non-profit whose mission it is to provide resources and medical care to people fighting HIV AIDS and the disenfranchised, tested positive for COVID-19. “Everybody at Desert AIDS Project has been working 12 hours a day […]
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Five more deaths due to coronavirus were reported Friday in Los Angeles County, raising the total to 26, and the county’s mortality rate from the illness rose above the levels seen across the country and in New York City, which has been particularly hard-hit by the virus. Barbara Ferrer, head of the county Department of […]
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Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, said Tuesday that he has introduced legislation that would require health care plans to fully cover treatment for the novel coronavirus. The Care for COVID-19 Act was introduced Thursday and aims to force health care companies to foot the bill for expenses including diagnostic services, supportive care, vaccines, prescriptions and […]
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(CNN) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is arming consumers with a list of disinfectants that people can use to protect themselves from the novel coronavirus. The federal agency released a five-page list of chemicals and products Thursday that it says are strong enough to ward off “harder-to-kill” viruses than SARS-CoV-2, the virus that’s responsible for the disease. […]
