Idaho’s COVID crisis becomes Washington hospitals’ problem
Surgeries to remove brain tumors have been postponed. Patients are backed up in the emergency room. Nurses are working brutal shifts. But at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, the calls keep coming: Can Idaho send another patient across the border? Continue reading at The New York Times. (Sgt. Kaden D. Pitt / U.S. Army)
Unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to die of covid-19, CDC report finds
People who were not fully vaccinated this spring and summer were more than 10 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 11 times more likely to die of covid-19, than those who were fully vaccinated, according to one of three major studies published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that highlight the continued efficacy of all three vaccines amid the spread of the highly contagious delta variant. Continue reading at The Washington Post. (Matt McClain)
Second ‘Murder Hornet’ nest in Whatcom County destroyed, but ‘our work is not complete’
For the second time this year, the Washington State Department of Agriculture destroyed a nest built by Asian Giant Hornets — commonly known as “Murder Hornets” — over the weekend and found a third nest in Whatcom County that it plans to eradicate soon. “The second Asian giant hornet nest of 2021 has been eradicated. It had four combs,” a Department of Agriculture Facebook post Saturday, Sept. 11., read. Continue reading at The Bellingham Herald.
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