At one Los Angeles hospital, there are so many patients coming in that some are being put in the gift shop, a chapel or a conference [email protected] they won’t turn patients away, but may have to employ wartime techniques for assessing care. https://t.co/L7kUAkx091 … [Read more...] about REPORT: Los Angeles Hospital Using Gift Shop To Treat Overflowing Coronavirus Patients
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This crowdsourced website tracks where you can get vaccinated in California
Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the vaccination process had opened up to a new tier: Californians 65 and older can now get vaccinated in the state. But most counties, including in the Bay Area, did not have systems in place, leaving people scrambling to find out which health care providers in the Bay Area were accepting appointments. … [Read more...] about This crowdsourced website tracks where you can get vaccinated in California
No charges against Wisconsin police officer who shot Jacob Blake
Officer Rusten Sheskey’s shooting of Jacob Blake on Aug. 23, captured on bystander video, turned the nation’s spotlight on Wisconsin during a summer marked by protests over police brutality and racism. More than 250 people were arrested in the days that followed, including 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, a self-styled medic with an assault rifle who is charged in the fatal shootings of two men and the wounding of a third. … [Read more...] about No charges against Wisconsin police officer who shot Jacob Blake
China keeps promising its African allies that coronavirus vaccines for the continent are a priority. But where are they?
If the vaccines aren't forthcoming, it will be hard for China to continue peddling the narrative that it shares "weal and woe" with its African brothers when those on the continent remain exposed to the virus, and thus trapped within their own borders, as millions in China attempt to put the pandemic in the past. … [Read more...] about China keeps promising its African allies that coronavirus vaccines for the continent are a priority. But where are they?
What we know about Asia Pacific’s Covid-19 vaccines
Cambodia has secured doses for 3.2 million people under the COVAX initiative, but no details have been released on when those will arrive. Additional doses will be ordered from unspecified vaccine providers, said the prime minister, according to national press agency Agence Kampuchea Press. … [Read more...] about What we know about Asia Pacific’s Covid-19 vaccines