THURSDAY, Feb. 25, 2021 — In a hopeful turnaround during a long pandemic, U.S. nursing homes that were once the epicenter of coronavirus infections are now seeing both cases and deaths fall steeply as the country’s vaccination rollout starts to take hold. From late December to early February, new cases among U.S. nursing home residents… Read More: COVID Cases, Deaths Plummet in Nursing Homes After Vaccine Rollout »
There’s one new case of locally acquired COVID-19 in NSW and seven cases in returned travellers in hotel quarantine. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said there had been 14,382 tests in the 24 hours until 8pm on Tuesday, but urged more people to get tested. The new local case was a household contact of another case in… Read More: One new local COVID case in NSW »
“A junior doctor I spoke to the other day was talking about what a difficult time she’d found in another hospital,” says Dorothy Wade, a psychologist at University College Hospital in London. “And I said, ‘Didn’t you have anything like this at the other hospital?’ And she said, ‘No, absolutely nothing. There was nothing on… Read More: Covid: The NHS workers ‘still recovering’ as second wave looms »