Latest: Northern Nevada hospitals swamped with COVID cases

RENO, Nev. — The Nevada Hospital Association is urging radical to debar going to exigency rooms but successful existent emergencies, particularly successful bluish Nevada wherever a resurgence successful coronavirus infections is moving treble the complaint successful the Las Vegas area.

Health officials accidental the 30-day mean for regular caller coronavirus cases per 100,000 residents has accrued fivefold successful the Reno-Sparks country implicit the past six weeks — from 354 astatine the opening of August to 1,621 now. The statewide complaint is 951, and it's 720 successful Clark County, which includes Las Vegas.

The caput of the infirmary relation says that arsenic a result, “many infirmary exigency departments successful bluish Nevada are astatine capableness with patients."

State officials said Wednesday that 1,090 radical were hospitalized astatine the opening of the week for confirmed oregon suspected cases of COVID-19, the illness that tin beryllium caused by the coronavirus.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

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— As COVID-19 vaccine mandates rise, religious exemptions grow

— Biden, concern leaders sermon vaccine mandates at White House

— EU pledges 200 cardinal much COVID-19 vaccine doses to Africa

— China imposes section lockdowns as COVID-19 cases surge

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— See AP sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

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HOUSTON — Some of the 15 Texas schoolhouse districts that person been sued successful the past week for defying Gov. Greg Abbott’s prohibition connected disguise mandates are pushing backmost against the lawsuits.

One schoolhouse territory said Wednesday it doesn’t person specified a mandate and isn’t definite wherefore it’s being sued. Another territory that has made masks portion of its pupil formal codification said its request for look coverings has resulted successful its schools having among the state’s fewest COVID-19 absences.

At slightest 8 counties and cities and 87 schoolhouse districts oregon systems successful Texas person imposed disguise mandates hoping to tamp down the pandemic, which has overwhelmed galore of the state’s hospitals with COVID-19 cases.

State Attorney General Ken Paxton began suing schoolhouse districts past week.

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LOS ANGELES — Public wellness officials successful Los Angeles County volition statesman requiring impervious of COVID-19 vaccination for patrons and workers astatine indoor bars, wineries, breweries and nightclubs adjacent month.

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The caller inaugural successful the nation’s astir populous region begins Oct. 7, with impervious of astatine slightest 1 vaccine dose required. According to the county’s Department of Public Health, impervious of afloat vaccination volition beryllium mandatory by Nov. 4.

Health officials powerfully urge the aforesaid precautions for indoor restaurants but person not chosen to mandate impervious of vaccination for them.

The caller restrictions travel up of the vacation season, which brought a monolithic surge successful infections to Los Angeles past year.

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WASHINGTON — U.S. authorities advisers volition statement Friday if there’s capable impervious that a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is harmless and effective.

It’s the archetypal nationalist measurement toward deciding which Americans whitethorn get an other dose and when. The Food and Drug Administration connected Wednesday posted overmuch of the grounds that it volition inquire extracurricular experts to see astatine Friday’s meeting.

But the bureau struck a neutral code successful reviewing the information and discussing the rationale for boosters. That cautious attack is notable fixed that White House officials person been previewing a booster run that they hoped to statesman adjacent week.

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Pfizer is making the statement that portion extortion against terrible illness is holding beardown successful the U.S., immunity against milder corruption wanes determination astir six to 8 months aft the 2nd dose. The drugmaker is pointing to information from Israel, which began offering boosters implicit the summer.

The U.S. already offers an other dose of the Pfizer oregon Moderna vaccines to radical with severely weakened immune systems.

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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — Hundreds of anti-vaccination protesters hurled flares astatine the parliament gathering successful the Slovenian superior connected Wednesday to protestation a caller measurement that mandates a COVID-19 walk for entering astir immoderate shop, work oregon a workplace successful the country.

Police responded with teardrop state and h2o cannons. There were nary contiguous reports of injuries.

The tiny Alpine authorities has seen a surge successful infections with regular cases exceeding 1,300 for 2 days successful a enactment now, levels past seen successful April, portion the 14-day incidence per 100,000 colonisation present stands astatine 533, 1 of the highest rates successful Europe, the authorities STA quality bureau reported.

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The COVID-19 walk is required for entree to astir each services and workplaces and determination person been reports passim the time of store clerks being hassled, the bureau reported.

Many complaints by disgruntled customers were targeted astatine petrol stations aft the largest substance retailer, Petrol, made it mandatory to amusement the walk — that mandates afloat vaccination oregon a COVID-19 trial — earlier radical could capable up their tank.

The walk is besides mandatory for entree to wellness services, but for exigency care. Community wellness centers person instituted a strict argumentation of compliance, portion hospitals person offered on-the-spot investigating for those who bash not person it.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. authorities volition walk $470 cardinal to larn much astir agelong COVID-19, its causes and imaginable treatments.

The National Institutes of Health announced the plans Wednesday with a assistance awarded to NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a extremity of enrolling up to 40,000 adults and children nationwide. The effort, dubbed RECOVER, volition impact researchers astatine much than 30 U.S. institutions.

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‘’This is being taken with the top seriousness… astatine a standard that has not truly been attempted with thing similar this,’’ Dr. Francis Collins, NIH director, said astatine a briefing Wednesday.

Collins says its estimated 10% to 30% of radical infected with COVID-19 whitethorn make persistent, caller oregon recurring symptoms that tin past months oregon possibly years.

Long COVID is an umbrella word for symptoms that linger, recur and amusement up for the archetypal clip 4 weeks oregon much aft an archetypal infection. It besides includes bosom inflammation and multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a uncommon but superior information that tin hap successful children aft a COVID-19 infection.

Pain, headaches, fatigue, encephalon fog, shortness of breath, anxiety, depression, chronic coughs and slumber problems are among the reported symptoms of agelong COVID. Possible causes see the microorganism lingers successful tissues and organs oregon it overstimulates the immune system.

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WASHINGTON — Religious objections were erstwhile utilized lone sparingly astir the state to get exempted from assorted required vaccines. But immoderate are utilizing the loophole to debar the COVID-19 shot.

About 3,000 Los Angeles Police Department employees are citing spiritual objections against the required COVID-19 vaccination. In Washington state, much than 3,800 authorities workers had requested spiritual exemptions. So far, 737 person been approved, but officials stressed that an exemption does not warrant continued employment.

President Joe Biden announced sweeping caller vaccine mandate past week that covers much than 100 cardinal Americans, including enforcement subdivision employees and workers astatine businesses with much than 100 radical connected the payroll.

The medication acknowledges a tiny number of Americans volition usage — and immoderate whitethorn question to exploit — spiritual exemptions. But it says adjacent marginal improvements successful vaccination levels volition prevention lives.

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It’s not wide yet however galore national employees person requested a spiritual exemption. The Labor Department has said an accommodation tin beryllium denied if it causes an undue burden.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota justice has rejected a petition by acrophobic parents to unit a stateside disguise mandate successful each schools.

Ramsey County District Judge Thomas Gilligan said the tribunal was “gravely concerned” astir the risks of COVID-19 for Minnesota children, but said successful his ruling the tribunal lacks the ineligible authorization to bid Gov. Tim Walz to contented the directive that the parents sought.

The longshot ineligible situation was unsocial successful that it sought to unit the politician to state a peacetime authorities of exigency and travel it with a mandate, Minnesota Public Radio reported. In different states, governors who’ve tried to forestall schoolhouse districts from requiring disguise usage person been blocked by courts.

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PORTLAND, Maine — Two of the top-ranking Democratic members of the Maine Senate person tested affirmative for COVID-19 contempt being afloat vaccinated.

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Maine Senate President Troy Jackson tested affirmative for coronavirus, becoming the highest-ranking authoritative successful authorities authorities to declaration the virus. Senate Major Leader Eloise Vitelli besides says she had received a affirmative test.

Jackson says he’s isolating aft investigating positive. He hadn’t experienced symptoms but decided to acquisition a accelerated trial aft learning a adjacent interaction had the virus.

Jackson said helium was grateful to beryllium vaccinated since vaccines person proven to beryllium effectual successful preventing terrible symptoms and hospitalizations. Vitelli says she was experiencing lone mild symptoms connected Wednesday.

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STORRS, Conn. — There’s been a premix of coronavirus requirements astatine universities and colleges successful the U.S.

At astir of the largest nationalist universities, students aren’t obligated to beryllium vaccinated against COVID-19. Some schools bash necessitate vaccines, but with leniency for those who opt out. Still others person expelled students who don’t comply.

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An investigation by The Associated Press shows 26 of the nation’s 50 largest nationalist universities aren’t requiring the vaccination.

Universities with vaccine mandates are concentrated successful the Northeast and California. Most without mandates are successful states that restricted the quality to instrumentality vaccine requirements, including Florida, Texas and Arizona.

As a caller semester begins amid a resurgence of the coronavirus, administrators and module nationwide spot precocious vaccination rates arsenic cardinal to bringing immoderate normalcy backmost to campus. Where mandates look governmental opposition, schools are relying connected incentives and outreach to get much students vaccinated.

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ST. LOUIS — A kid has died of COVID-19 successful Missouri arsenic the coronavirus sickens grounds numbers of youths successful the state.

According to officials with the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, the kid died past week successful the St. Louis area. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports task unit officials wouldn’t uncover much information, specified arsenic the child’s age, citing privateness concerns.

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The decease brings the full fig of Missouri children younger than 18 who person died from COVID-19 to six, according to authorities wellness section spokeswoman Lisa Cox.

On Sept. 7, determination were a grounds 1,133 affirmative trial results for Missouri children younger than 18, topping 940 acceptable connected Nov. 9, according to an investigation released Tuesday by the Missouri Hospital Association.

Some section wellness departments successful the St. Louis country person reported up to a 3rd of caller cases are among children.

Dr. Clay Dunagan, main objective serviceman for BJC HealthCare, cited the much infectious delta variant and schools not taking steps to trim spread, specified arsenic requiring masks. Children younger than 12 aren’t eligible for vaccines, and vaccination rates among teens lags that of adults.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has invited CEOs and concern leaders to the White House to sermon COVID-19 mandates.

The gathering Wednesday follows Biden’s announcement past week that the Labor Department is moving to necessitate that businesses with 100 oregon much employees bid their workers to beryllium afloat vaccinated oregon taxable a antagonistic COVID-19 trial astatine slightest weekly. Biden said 100 cardinal workers would beryllium taxable to the requirement.

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Some concern groups, including the Business Roundtable, welcomed the president’s announcement.

“America’s concern leaders cognize however captious vaccination and investigating are successful defeating the pandemic,” Josh Bolten, president and CEO of the Business Roundtable, said successful a statement.

Numerous corporations, including Amtrak, Microsoft, United Airlines and Walt Disney issued vaccine mandates for their workforces earlier Biden’s announcement past week.

Some Republicans accused Biden of overstepping his authorization and person threatened to writer the medication implicit the vaccine mandate.

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