Excitement in the Air as Seniors Get Their Vaccinations
Vitals staffers Ashley Boarman and Emma Dugas contributed to this story. JoAnn Yuen of San Francisco hasn’t seen her grandchildren since March. But that should change soon. Yuen, 82, was thrilled to be first in line to get her COVID-19 vaccination at a Sutter Health...
Doctors See Parallels Between COVID-19, ‘Spanish Flu’ Pandemics
History provides important lessons for the present and future. The pandemic of 1918-19, called the “Spanish Flu” (which originated in the United States), is a good indicator of what we’re currently experiencing, says Gary Green, M.D., a California infectious disease...
No Vaccine for This Virus, but Advances Have Saved Lives
While COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out to the public less than a year after official reports of the novel coronavirus pandemic in the United States, there is still no vaccine for another deadly virus that reared its ugly head about 40 years ago, accounting for...
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ICU Doc on Vaccine Side Effects: She’d Do It Again
A Northern California ICU physician who was one of the first in the region to get both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine documented her vaccination journey and concluded that, while she experienced some temporary flu-like symptoms, she would do it again and encourages...
Healthcare Staff Now Have Extra Layer of Protection
California is smashing daily records for COVID-19 cases as the post-holiday surge comes to a head. The difference now is that a vaccine exists. Vaccine deployment continues across Sutter Health. The plans developed by its healthcare leaders to vaccinate nurses,...
Hospitals Stand Up Flexible Spaces to Handle Influx
Tents Act as New Front Doors to Help with COVID Care For years, many hospitals stored large, camping-style tents and put them up occasionally as part of emergency drills or surge events. These tents were meant to be a quick, temporary solution to help triage and...
Veteran Appreciates Chance to Be Heard About Disability
This is part of a series celebrating those individuals who define themselves by what they can do, not what they can’t do. Sutter Health Assistant General Counsel Ed Fabi serves as co-lead of the Military & Veterans Inclusion Resource Group. He retired in May...
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Have COVID-19? Here’s When to Head to the ER
So you or your loved one were diagnosed with COVID-19. You’re following doctor’s orders, isolating at home and taking precautions to protect other people from infection. But how do you know when it’s time to seek emergency medical attention for COVID-19, or time to...
Going Back to Basics as Hospitals Reduce C-sections
Dr. Katarina Lanner-Cusin has been passionate about babies since she was a child herself. Now, after more than 25 years as an obstetrician, Lanner-Cusin has teamed up with nurses, midwives, doulas and others to rethink childbirth in hospitals across Northern...
COVID ‘Long-Hauler’ Still in Fog, Off Work. He’s Not Alone
By Kathy Engle Yevgeny, a 37-year-old software engineer, suffered for two weeks with the novel coronavirus, and now, nearly three months later, he is free of COVID-19. But he is far from being recovered. Yevgeny is still off work, suffering from ongoing “brain...
Healthcare Systems’ Plea: Do Your Part to Avoid Surge
As COVID-19 infections continue to surge across the state, California’s leading healthcare systems are offering a prescription to residents to help slow the spread of the virus: Stay home for the holidays. At a Dec. 22 virtual statewide joint press conference,...
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