National Quarantined Health Workers Compound Staffing Shortages At California Hospitals With a spike in COVID-19 infections, hospitals in California's San Joaquin Valley are suffering from a staffing shortage. It's made worse because hundreds of health care workers are quarantined. Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Health More WA Covid-19 hospitalizations, more deaths, and plans for a vaccine rollout ‘As we speak, in Washington there are over 1,000 people in the hospital with Covid. That's double what it was about a month ago.’ Kim Malcolm Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Health Health care workers are tired, frustrated with Covid complacency as cases surge ‘Having people die from a disease that the staff feel could have been prevented, having to watch them die, and hold their hand while they die, while they're alone, is really challenging.’ Paige Browning Andy Hurst
National U.S. Hospitals Targeted In Rising Wave Of Ransomware Attacks, Federal Agencies Say An alert warns hospitals and health care providers that there is "credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat." Shannon Bond Vanessa Romo
Business How Feds Decide On Remdesivir Shipments To States Remains Mysterious The federal government is in charge of distributing one of the few treatment options for COVID-19: the antiviral drug remdesivir. But how are decisions made about which states need it most? Sydney Lupkin
Health Overlake hospital said it follows safety gear guidelines, but its policies show otherwise If you want to move to Phase 2, Washington state says healthcare workers can’t wear their N95 respirator or surgical mask for longer than one shift. Policies at Bellevue’s Overlake Medical Center say workers should wear them for up to five shifts. Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Health What these nurses see on the Covid ICU in Seattle The air turns over every 20 to 25 minutes on the Covid ICU at the University of Washington Medical Center, but no one breathes easy. Isolde Raftery
Health Doctors In Training Learn Hard Lessons During The Pandemic There are some 130,000 medical residents in the U.S., and many are pulling long shifts in emergency departments and ICUs treating patients infected with the coronavirus. Will Stone
Health New Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Patients On Ventilators Usually Survive Early reports suggested death rates as high as 90% for COVID-19 patients on ventilators. But some hospitals are now reporting mortality lower than 30%. Jon Hamilton
Health Hospital ICUs Are Adapting To COVID-19 At 'Light Speed' With COVID-19 becoming a critical focus in hospital intensive care units, nurses, doctors and other caregivers have had to shift gears to protect staff and save patients. Jon Hamilton
