COVID-19 surge meant cancer patient died without critical care – Los Angeles Times

Billy and Kim Folsom pose next to each other near a bar area Now, the long-feared cratering of Southern California’s healthcare system due to the coronavirus is here — and it’s killing people like Kim, says Billy. He bears no ill will toward the Hi-Desert staff, whom he described “to a person [as] sympathetic, compassionate and very kind to us. … They did all they could.”

Instead, Billy lays Kim’s ordeal squarely on “maskholes.”

“We’re never going to know if she could’ve been saved,” said the 68-year-old, his blue eyes weary yet steely. “There was a surge because people didn’t wear masks. Those who don’t wear it can deny it all they want, but that’s the way it is.

“So, yeah, I’m angry,” he concluded. “Not just for my wife. For all of us.”

Source: COVID-19 surge meant cancer patient died without critical care – Los Angeles Times

Two dead, entire villages destroyed after ‘ferocious’ Cyclone Yasa smashes Fiji

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18:05, Dec 18 2020 .-. Nicole said this latest natural disaster shows the “harsh consequences” of climate inaction. “It’s past time for world leaders to step up their commitments in this climate emergency.”

At least two people have been killed and entire villages reportedly destroyed after Tropical Cyclone Yasa smashed through Fiji overnight.

One man is reported to have died when he was crushed under a wall of his house. Fijian Broadcasting Corporation reported the 46-year-old farmer, his wife and two sons were sheltering in their house near Labasa – the largest town on the island of Vanua Levu – when the building collapsed.

The man’s eldest son was also trapped under the wall and was injured.

Vasiti Soko, the director of the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO), confirmed the fatalities were in the Western and Northern Divisions, The Fiji Times reported.

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As CA COVID-19 rates surge, Sacramento doctor speaks out | The Sacramento Bee

Dear Sacramento: Please, stay home for the holidays. I am making this plea because I’ve seen what can happen if you don’t. I’m a Sacramento Emergency Medicine doctor who volunteered in New York City after COVID-19 devastated that city. Now I’m watching the cases in Sacramento double every two weeks as our healthcare infrastructure nears a breaking point. I’m asking you to stay home because I don’t want to see any more preventable death. I care about you and your loved ones, and I know healthcare providers like myself need your help. Thanksgiving gatherings and quarantine fatigue have poured gasoline on the flames of the pandemic. Sacramento County recorded 280 cases of COVID-19 on Nov. 7 and 1,183 cases on Dec. 7. Nearly all of the hospitals in the Sacramento area are near or at capacity and have enacted surge plans that include opening up new Intensive Care Units, pulling staff from non-emergent services to COVID-19 units and canceling surgeries.

Source: As CA COVID-19 rates surge, Sacramento doctor speaks out | The Sacramento Bee

COVID-19 cluster identified at Hendersonville church | Henderson County North Carolina

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (December 17, 2020) – The Henderson County Department of Public Health has identified a COVID-19 cluster associated with a holiday celebration event at First Baptist Church, Hendersonville over the Dec. 5 weekend.

To date, the Health Department has identified 75 individuals who have tested positive as a result of the event. The Health Department is working to identify any additional close contacts of these individuals. The CDC defines close contact as being within approximately six feet of an infected person with COVID-19 for a cumulative 15 minutes.

Source: COVID-19 cluster identified at Hendersonville church | Henderson County North Carolina

NCDHHS: NCDHHS Reports Highest One-Day Increase of COVID-19 Positive Tests; More than 8,000 Cases Reported

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is reporting the state’s highest one-day number of COVID-19 cases with 8,444 new cases reported today, doubling a record day reported just one month ago on Nov. 19 when the state reported 4,296 new cases.

Source: NCDHHS: NCDHHS Reports Highest One-Day Increase of COVID-19 Positive Tests; More than 8,000 Cases Reported

Memoria del Agradecimiento…

Gratitude is good for health, it stimulates the brain, that part where substances such as dopamine are generated, causing us to feel good, that feeling of satisfaction, which is like a drug, strengthens the health of the body, lowers the levels of the cortisol hormone, making the hypothalamus look favored, as it secretes other substances that improve neuronal functions. But apart from the benefits that it leaves in health, in our human relationships, thanking God, the universe, or whatever you want to call it, in an act of kindness, makes us vibrate high, the more you thank, the more you attract it to your life. same, (it would happen the same if we complain, more of that dose that we do not want would come) As simple as it is to show sincere gratitude, everything is simpler, feel at peace, calm, in harmony being grateful.

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Que pasa con nuestra memoria, que de pronto solo recordamos lo que queremos recordar, o lo que a nuestro parecer es conveniente tener presente…

El hipocampo, ubicado en el lóbulo frontal de nuestro cerebro, que tiene una forma parecida a un caballo de mar (de ahí su nombre) ahí es donde se generan lo recuerdos, están ahí temporalmente y luego son archivados en la corteza prefontal.

“Existen cinco tipos diferentes de memoria: Memoria episódica (hechos personales) Memoria a corto plazo (funcional o de trabajo) Memoria a largo plazo. Memoria semántica (hechos) Memoria procedimental (destrezas)” (selecciones.com.mx.)

Sentada en mi sillón favorito, descalza, mientras tomo una taza con tisana de guayabas, mandarinas, jamaica, jengibre, romero y limón, escuchando a Lara Fabian -PAR AMOUR- reflexiono en las cosas que son importantes de recordar, me parece que una de esas cosas es el estimular la memoria de ser agradecidos, pues de pronto parece que…

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