On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) stated that he wants to get vaccines into arms quickly, “But we’re also holding our providers accountable that we want those arms to look like North Carolina’s population.” Cooper stated that during the early part of the vaccine rollout, “we did not hit enough of our people of color in underserved communities. And that’s why, in North Carolina, we created our own database to have 100% of the vaccinations, we will know who those vaccinations go to. Our goal is to get those vaccinations off the shelves and into arms, but we also want those arms to reflect the makeup of our population, making sure that we get our vaccines to black North Carolinians, to Hispanic North Carolinians, and we want to make sure that we do that, and we’re getting help from the feds now, and that has been critical.” He later added, “Every single day I’m working on vaccine distribution in North Carolina. It’s not simple, though, when you have millions of people who need it, but not enough vaccines for all of them. So, then you’ve got to decide how to distribute it. Our motto is fast and fair. We want those vaccines off the shelves and into arms before the next shipment comes. But we’re also holding our providers accountable that we want those arms to look like North Carolina’s population. And that’s not as easy as it sounds. Because we want to be fair about this, but the most important thing we need to do is to make sure that we get those vaccines in arms and we want more and more. So delighted that 80,000 doses of J&J vaccine, with the one shot, coming to North Carolina. We’re going to get those out there quickly, and, hopefully, get a lot of uptake on that, as well.” Cooper further stated, “So, first, we targeted our 65-and-over population.” Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett ...
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New Treatment Gets Young People With Knee Problems Back In Game
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — There is a new treatment that is getting young people with knee problems back in the game. “I was playing in my regional championship game for Slippery Rock roller hockey. I felt the pop. At first, I thought it was an ACL, MCL, meniscus. It was my last Nationals ever. So I really just wanted to play it off until the end of the season. That Monday, I still couldn’t walk. I was dragging my right leg behind me. Tuesday, I went to get out of bed, still could barely walk,” said Nick Smith. READ MORE: Pa. House Republicans Call For Investigation Of Wolf Administration's Handling Of Nursing Homes During Coronavirus Pandemic Smith’s knee was worn out. “In the back of my knee, I had, pretty much, a hole. And my bone was chipping,” Smith said. “I was getting really bad spurts of pain.” “They get achy pain, they can have some catching, popping. A lot of times, a lot of pain along the joint line. And they can’t really go through with the activities they want to do,” said Dr. Brian Mosier, an orthopedic surgeon at AHN Forbes Hospital. His doctor first wanted to see if it would heal itself. But the problem was bigger than that. He had something like a pothole in his cartilage called a defect. “If you have a pothole in the road, you want to fix that by filling it,” says Dr. Mosier. It’s the same idea for an operation called an allograft. Think of it as patching potholes in your knees, but instead of asphalt, doctors use a plug of cartilage and bone from a cadaver. Turns out Smith was the perfect candidate for this type of procedure. “A young, active person with kind of a focal cartilage defect on the weight-bearing surface of their knee,” Dr. Mosier said. READ MORE: Boat Sinking On Pittsburgh's North Shore As River Levels Rise But in order for it to work, the surrounding cartilage must be healthy. And the stakes are high. “If the graft fails, then it would require a big revision,” said Dr. Mosier. After the allograft, he started ...
Biden’s trumped-up rescue plan is a solution looking for a problem
The Biden administration hit the ground running with an explosive agenda focusing on three crises that require immediate attention without delay: first, the COVID-19 pandemic; second, the related purported weak economy, especially COVID-related job losses that require a stronger stimulus than we have seen so far, in President Biden Joe Biden Biden offers support to union organizing efforts Senate Democrats nix 'Plan B' on minimum wage hike Kavanaugh dismays conservatives by dodging pro-Trump election lawsuits MORE ’s opinion; and third, the economic inequality crisis. The trilogy of crises follows former White House chief of staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel’s famous adage: Never let a crisis go to waste. President Biden has invented three to focus his attention and build voter support, in part because three is more compelling than one. Current emphasis is mainly on the second leg of the trilogy — the economic fallout from the coronavirus — probably because it is the most likely to quickly disappear without the opportunity to spend a massive sum, $1.9 trillion, to truly shock voters with the size of the problem and its solution. The third leg of the trilogy stool — the war on economic inequality — is longstanding and Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan does not directly address it. Biden’s proposal, termed the American Rescue Plan , is bound for the Senate after House passage early Saturday. It comes on top of three laws passed in March 2020, costing more than $1.9 trillion and addressing the same subjects while deaths from the virus rapidly surged. A fourth bill signed into law on Dec. 27, 2020, restored federal unemployment assistance to $300 per week (down from $600 from mid-March 2020 through July, and $400 from August to about mid-September) in January 2021 through mid-March, and provided a new one-time payment of $600 to couples earning less than $150,000 per year and lesser amounts to individuals, as well as other extensions. This ...
COVID 1-Year: A Look Back On What’s Been Lost And How Tri-State Has Persevered
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been felt around the globe. More than 114 million cases have been reported worldwide, and 2.5 million deaths. The United States has seen 28 million of those cases, and more than half a million people have died. That’s higher than American death tolls for World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War combined. In New York City, there are more than 600,000 confirmed cases, and nearly 25,000 deaths. The city was one of the first hard hit in the country. From March to May, it was the epicenter of the virus. As CBS2’s Aundrea Cline-Thomas reported, it was a devastating period that changed the city profoundly. FLASHBACK: Health Care Worker Tests Positive After Returning From Iran, Husband Awaiting Results The first COVID patient in the Tri-State Area was a 39-year-old health care worker who had recently returned from a trip overseas. She recovered at home. Medical professionals and politicians had been preparing for that moment, but at the time, no one truly knew what was in store. “We didn’t go to any places, cooked food at home and everything. It was very scary times,” Astoria resident Marianna Obushko told Cline-Thomas. “I don’t know how much more graphic we could be… Go past a hospital — a neighborhood hospital here, Mt. Sinai — and see the morgue tractor trailer.” By the time the first reported case of the coronavirus was identified in March of 2020, the virus was already spreading, unknowingly, in the Tri-State Area. “I already knew it was coming. I already bought masks. I told all of my American friends. Nobody wanted to believe me,” Astoria resident Joanne Wang said. “We have told New Yorkers from the beginning: Get ready, here it comes, we’re all going to be able to deal with it together,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said on March 2, 2020. CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Ask CBS2’s Dr. Max Your Vaccine Questions COVID Vaccine FAQ From CDC Vaccination ...
The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – Trump teases on 2024 run
Presented by Facebook President Trump Donald Trump Sacha Baron Cohen calls out 'danger of lies, hate and conspiracies' in Golden Globes speech Sorkin uses Abbie Hoffman quote to condemn Capitol violence: Democracy is 'something you do' Ex-Trump aide Pierson planning run for Congress MORE " width="580" height="387" data-delta="1" /> Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. Today is Monday, the start of Women’s History Month! Happy March! We get you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver are the co-creators. Readers can find us on Twitter @asimendinger and @alweaver22. Please recommend the Morning Report to friends and let us know what you think. CLICK HERE to subscribe! Total U.S. coronavirus deaths as March 1 begins: 513,091. As of this morning, 15 percent of the U.S. population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 7.5 percent is fully vaccinated, according to the Bloomberg News global vaccine tracker . For better or worse, Donald Trump is back. The former president made his public return on Sunday with a raucous address to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), teasing a potential 2024 presidential bid, panning President Biden Joe Biden Biden offers support to union organizing efforts Senate Democrats nix 'Plan B' on minimum wage hike Kavanaugh dismays conservatives by dodging pro-Trump election lawsuits MORE ’s first month in the White House, preaching unity within the GOP ranks, and shortly thereafter attacking those who voted to impeach or convict him, vowing to defeat them all. Multiple times throughout the 90-minute speech, Trump hinted at a third bid for the presidency, drawing massive cheers from the crowd of conservative activists who convened for the three-day gathering in Orlando, Fla. He also insisted he defeated Biden ...
