Public Health

The COVID-19 pandemic is spurring a wave of broken toes and other foot-related injuries, podiatrists and orthopedists told The Washington Post.

Dignity Health's St. Rose Dominican San Martín campus in Las Vegas continues to provide alternate care sites and suspend elective surgeries after issuing a disaster declaration over the weekend, according to statements from the hospital.  

Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and OSU College of Medicine researchers have discovered a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a Jan. 13 news release. 

Rates of pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations rose by 760 percent in 22 states last year from May to November, according to a study published Jan. 11 in JAMA Pediatrics.

The nation's seven-day death average hit a record-high Jan. 12 at 3,299 deaths, with the sharpest spikes occurring in the South and West, according to data from The COVID Tracking Project.

CMS released an official pandemic plan Jan. 12 that details the agency's actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

COVID-19 prevention measures such as widespread mask wearing have helped suppress other common respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, though experts say they could make a vigorous comeback when coronavirus cases eventually decline, The Washington Post reports. 

Louisville, Ky.-based Baptist Health provided the state's health department with an online scheduling tool that didn't specify it was meant only for healthcare workers, allowing members of the general public to sign up, CNN reported Jan. 11.

California plans to ramp up its COVID-19 vaccination effort by transforming stadiums and Disneyland Resort into mass vaccination centers later this week, The Orange County Register reported Jan. 11. The news comes after the state reported a record 695 coronavirus…

COVID-19 cases per capita in the West are rapidly nearing the Midwest's peak from the fall, according to The COVID Tracking Project.