Forty-two percent of the state’s ICU beds, of which few remain open, are occupied by COVID-19 patients, and 85 percent of them are unvaccinated, said Dr. Michael Calderwood, chief quality officer at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
When there are no beds left, hospitals are transferring patients who need acute care, including stroke and heart attack victims, to other hospitals – in and out of state. And some hospitals are limiting or postponing elective but still-serious procedures that require an in-patient stay, such as hip and knee replacements.
Do whatever you can to prevent yourself from getting it, unless you like losing your sense of taste and smell, feeling sore all over, coughing, being chilled and needing to sleep 18 hours a day. If you’re not vaccinated, please get vaccinated. If you’re not wearing a mask indoors in areas where community transmission is high, please start. If you don’t wash your hands regularly, please do so. I don’t want you or anyone else to feel the way I do right now.
While the decision of whether or not to vaccinate is often characterized in partisan political terms, there’s a group of people who are hesitant to get the shot for reasons entirely unrelated to politics.
State health officials are urging people to follow health precautions even once they are vaccinated.
The answer is not to work harder no matter what, not to push through despite your emotional and physical exhaustion. Rather, we’ve attempted to turn to our Lazy Brain in an effort to set new expectations, to create an environment appropriate to the time in which we live.
I find it difficult enough being a man, but it feels twice as hard living as a Black man. About 20-30 days ago I got evicted from my apartment. No warning, no heads-up. No clue that this was brewing behind my back. Ever since, I’ve been struggling hard, man. Yes, you read that correctly. During quarantine, working father of two got evicted.
New Hampshire Rotary clubs and the Common Man Family are partnering as “Mask Up, New Hampshire!” to distribute FREE breathable, washable, and reusable cloth face masks to New Hampshire citizens. 67,000 masks have been donated by the Common Man Family.
Recently, Dean Kaman chartered a plane to bring much needed medical supplies to the Granite State. A noble gesture in
Given the nationwide shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other testing supplies, healthcare providers in New Hampshire must preserve the State’s existing inventory of these materials to care for patients who will develop severe COVID-19 illness, as well as exposed health care providers and exposed first responders.