A Covid-19 ‘senior wave’ is driving up hospitalizations | CNN
CNN — When Linda Stewart felt a tickle in her throat a few weeks ago, she got worried. She’s a...
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Amid brutal season of viral infections, children’s hospitals brace for impact of holiday gatherings | CNN
CNN — Children’s hospitals are already full of sick kids and bracing for a potential increase in respiratory illnesses after...
Don’t send Grandma to the ICU this Christmas | CNN
CNN — It started with one person releasing a long, productive unmasked cough into the stale, recycled air on the...
More than 7 million incorrect diagnoses made in US emergency rooms every year, government report finds | CNN
CNN — A new study finds that nearly 6% of the estimated 130 million people who go to US emergency...
Hospitals in the US are the fullest they’ve been throughout the pandemic — but it’s not just Covid | CNN
CNN — Hospitals are more full than they’ve been throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a CNN analysis of data...
A family death during the holidays prompts questions and reflection | CNN
CNN — It wasn’t the Thanksgiving holiday any of us had expected. Two weeks before, my 94-year-old father-in-law, Melvin Zax,...
Measles outbreak in central Ohio grows to more than 50 children, driven by ‘lack of vaccination’ | CNN
CNN — A measles outbreak in central Ohio is growing, sickening more than 50 children, with many of them needing...
Research helps seniors make informed decisions about risks, benefits of major surgery | CNN
Nearly 1 in 7 older adults die within a year of undergoing major surgery, according to an important new study...
Their preemie was already a fighter. Then at 3 weeks old, she caught the virus that’s packing hospitals across the US | CNN
CNN — As Abhishesh Pokharel carried his 3-week-old daughter into the emergency department, her fingers and toes were turning blue....
Children’s health leaders call for emergency response as respiratory viruses continue to spread across the US | CNN
CNN — Seasonal flu activity is “elevated across the country,” with “high” or “very high” respiratory virus activity in more...
