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Most states have curbed public health authority since pandemic began: analysis | TheHill (Me: How stupid have many elected officials been about Covid? Way too many!)

Legislators in all 50 states have proposed bills that would limit some of the power given to public health officials at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

At least 26 states have passed laws that weaken the government’s public health authority, according to an analysis by Kaiser Health News.

The report said at least 17 states have banned coronavirus vaccine mandates or created loopholes, and nine states have prohibited or limited mask mandates.

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At least three states have used an executive order, ballot initiative or state Supreme court ruling to limit the power of public health officials, the report said.

Source: Most states have curbed public health authority since pandemic began: analysis | TheHill

Six unvaccinated members of Florida family die of COVID-19 | TheHill

In just three weeks, six unvaccinated members of a Florida family died after contracting COVID-19.

After attending the funeral for 48-year-old family member Tyrone Moreland, 89-year-old grandmother Lillie Mae Dukes Moreland was hospitalized with the virus and died just 24 hours later, according to The Palm Beach Post.

Three more cousins died shortly after their grandmother, and the family’s most recent loss was 44-year-old Trentarian Moreland, who died on Sunday.

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Surviving family member Lisa Wilson said she believes she can trace at least two of the family’s deaths to a food pantry where her relatives had worked, but she is unsure where the others contracted the virus, the Post reported.

Wilson had spent weeks going door to door in Belle Glade, Fla., encouraging people to get vaccinated. She had unsuccessfully attempted to persuade her family members to get vaccinated prior to their deaths.

“I was in their ears almost every day. ‘You’ve just got to do this,’” Wilson said to the Post. “I’m beating myself up. Should I have pushed harder?”

Source: Six unvaccinated members of Florida family die of COVID-19 | TheHill

North Dakota hospital executive: ‘We really are in a crisis’ | TheHill (Me: Fake “freedom” to not vaccinate is infringing on other people’s right to medical care…)

All staffed ICU beds are full, Griffin said. The average age of hospitalization, including critical care, has dropped into the 50s, Griffin said, and 90 percent of the people hospitalized with COVID-19 are unvaccinated.

Griffin also bemoaned the region’s low vaccination rate and said the state’s hands-off approach of pleading with people to get vaccinated isn’t working.

“We still have a firm number of people that are entrenched, that don’t want to receive the vaccine,” Griffin said.

Source: North Dakota hospital executive: ‘We really are in a crisis’ | TheHill

Study: Farmworkers at 4 times risk of COVID-19 | CIDRAP

study today in JAMA Network Open that found quadruple the risk of COVID-19 in California farmworkers reveals risk factors for current or previous SARS-CoV-2 infection in the group, including outdoor work exposures, crowded living conditions, and high body mass index (BMI).

A team led by University of California at Berkeley researchers analyzed the data of 1,107 adult farmworkers undergoing testing for COVID-19 infection and immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies at federally qualified community clinics and community sites in the Salinas Valley from Jul 16 to Nov 30, 2020.

Source: Study: Farmworkers at 4 times risk of COVID-19 | CIDRAP

Alaska, Idaho using crisis standards of care over COVID-19 | CIDRAP (Me: Where’s the uproar from GOP about GOP states “rationing” medical care?)

Alaska now joins Idaho in establishing crisis standards of care as its largest hospital is now prioritizing treatment to patients most likely to survive COVID-19 infections.

“While we are doing our utmost, we are no longer able to provide the standard of care to each and every patient who needs our help,” Kristen Solana Walkinshaw, MD, chief of staff at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, wrote in a letter addressed to Alaskans and published yesterday.

“We have been forced within our hospital to implement crisis standards of care,” Walkinshaw said. “We have been required to develop and enact policies and procedure to ration medical care and treatments, including dialysis and specialized ventilatory support.”

According to the Associated Press, at Providence, more than 30% of the adult patients who are hospitalized have tested positive. Statewide, 202 patients are hospitalized for COVID-19, including 33 on ventilators.

Last week, Idaho announced similar measures in the northern part of the state after it faced a deluge of COVID-19 cases due to the Delta (B1617.2) variant. Now, some hospitals in southern Idaho announced they will also be rationing care. Idaho has one of the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country.

Source: Alaska, Idaho using crisis standards of care over COVID-19 | CIDRAP

State Supreme Court Overturns Mohamed Noor Murder Conviction (Me: Friends and family of murdered Australian woman who had called for help from police will not be happy with this)

Now, the state supreme court has rejected that decision and ordered that the case go to district court where Noor will be sentenced for second-degree manslaughter. Since Noor has no criminal history, he is likely to be sentenced to about 4 years, the Tribune notes. He has already served 30 months. Source: State Supreme Court Overturns Mohamed Noor Murder Conviction