Posts Tagged Long-Term Care
Virginia Nursing Homes Report Lack of N95 Masks, Isolation Gowns
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on May 19, 2020
Credit: CDC
Nursing homes in Virginia continue to have difficulty obtaining personal protective equipment. That’s according to new data published this week by the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association. Mallory Noe-Payne reports.
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From NPR News- 'Satchel' Recalls The Iconic Pitcher Who Helped Integrate Major League Baseball August 7, 2020Hall of Famer Satchel Paige started his career pitching in the Negro leagues and later became a major league star. Author Larry Tye tells his story in Satchel. Originally broadcast in 2010.
- Remembering Pete Hamill, A Journalist With A Whitman-esque Embrace Of NYC August 7, 2020Book critic Maureen Corrigan remembers the veteran NYC newsman, who died Aug. 5, as "a tenement kid and high school drop out who never lost connection to where he came from."
- Biden Backtracks Comments Contrasting Diversity In Black And Latino Communities August 7, 2020In response to a question from NPR about whether Biden would engage with Cuba if elected president, Biden contrasted the diversity of the country's Latino community with that of the Black community.
- Texas Tech Fires Top Women's Basketball Coaches Amid Abuse Allegations August 7, 2020Head coach Marlene Stollings came to Texas Tech in 2018, along with assistant Nikita Lowry Dawkins. They're both out now, after USA Today publishes allegations of physical, mental and verbal abuse.
- Opinion: We Are Africans. Here's Our View Of Beyoncé's 'Black Is King' August 7, 2020Esther Ngumbi, a professor from Kenya, and Ifeanyi Nsofor, a doctor in Nigeria, react to the megastar's movie-length music video — and to criticism from other Africans.
- 'Satchel' Recalls The Iconic Pitcher Who Helped Integrate Major League Baseball August 7, 2020
- From BBC News
- Coronavirus: Stricter measures introduced in Preston August 7, 2020New cases of coronavirus have more than doubled in the city in the space of a week.
- Kerala plane crash: 16 dead after Air India plane breaks in two at Calicut August 7, 2020An Air Indian Express plane with nearly 200 people on board crashes at Calicut airport.
- Virus cases 'may be levelling off' in England, figures suggest August 7, 2020After a low in cases at the end of June, the ONS estimated infections had been rising slightly in July.
- UK weather: Hottest August day for 17 years as temperatures top 36C August 7, 2020Beachgoers are urged to avoid busy areas, as temperatures in parts of the UK reached 36.4C (97.52F).
- Coronavirus: Lockdown restrictions in Preston and beachgoers told to 'head home' August 7, 2020Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Friday evening.
- Coronavirus: Stricter measures introduced in Preston August 7, 2020
