A rapid rise in Covid-19 hospitalizations in parts of the country with lagging vaccination rates is causing alarm. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Readers and Tweeters Connect the Dots on Topics From Vaccine Development to Long Covid
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. A Concerned Taxpayer Takes Stock of Vaccine Efforts Your recent article ... [Continue Reading]
After 18 Months, Sutter Antitrust Settlement Finally Poised for Formal Approval
More than 18 months after Sutter Health agreed to a tentative settlement in a closely watched antitrust case joined by the California Attorney General’s Office, the judge presiding over the case indicated she would sign off on the terms, ... [Continue Reading]
Fauci vs. Rand Paul on Vaccines: No ‘Bromance’ Here
"It is clear that Dr. Fauci will not allow himself to be used as a punching bag," a reader writes. Also: Climate change; unvaccinated hospital workers; reconnecting in a national park. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Is N.Y.C. Doing Enough to Slow 3rd Virus Wave? Experts Raise Doubts.
On Wednesday, the city announced that all public hospital employees must be vaccinated or face weekly coronavirus testing. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Indonesia Extends Restrictions During Eid al-Adha
The country surpassed India and Brazil with the largest number of daily cases in the world, establishing it as an epicenter of the virus. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
How Covid-19 Has Upended Life in Undervaccinated Arkansas
While much of the nation tiptoes toward normalcy, the coronavirus is again swamping hospitals in places like Mountain Home, in a rural county where fewer than one-third of residents are vaccinated. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story ... [Continue Reading]
How Indonesia Became the Coronavirus Pandemic’s New Epicenter
The suffering that ravaged places like India and Brazil — with deaths soaring, hospitals overwhelmed and oxygen running out — has reached Southeast Asia. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
The Pandemic Has a New Epicenter: Indonesia
The suffering that ravaged places like India and Brazil — with deaths soaring, hospitals overwhelmed and oxygen running out — has reached Southeast Asia. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Hospital ‘Trauma Centers’ Charge Enormous Fees to Treat Minor Injuries and Send People Home
The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary. Sutter Health Memorial ... [Continue Reading]
Indonesia Caseload Skyrockets, Setting Daily Records
Hospitals in the country are overflowing and residents have scrambled to buy medical oxygen to treat family members at home. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Death Toll Rises to 92 in Fire That Gutted Iraq Hospital Coronavirus Ward
The blaze, caused by an electrical short in a ventilator, was the second such fire in three months in a country where corruption and mismanagement have left basic government services barely functioning. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story ... [Continue Reading]
Effort to Decipher Hospital Prices Yields Key Finding: Don’t Try It at Home
A federal price transparency rule that took effect this year was supposed to give patients, employers and insurers a clearer picture of the true cost of hospital care. When the Trump administration unveiled the rule in 2019, Seema Verma, then chief ... [Continue Reading]
The Real Toll From Prison Covid Cases May Be Higher Than Reported
Some deaths were not counted as part of prison virus tallies because hospitalized inmates were officially released from custody before they died. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
For Surprise Medical Bills, It’s the Beginning of the End
Last winter, Congress banned a much-hated practice. Now regulators have to figure out exactly how to make the law work. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Hospital Prices Must Now Be Transparent. For Many Consumers, They’re Still Anyone’s Guess.
A colonoscopy might cost you or your insurer a few hundred dollars — or several thousand, depending on which hospital or insurer you use. Long hidden, such price variations are supposed to be available in stark black and white ... [Continue Reading]
Virus Surges in Myanmar After Coup
With doctors and other health care workers already on strike to protest the coup, Myanmar’s health care system may buckle under the outbreak. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]