Infections also have risen among government employees, with the city of Bloomington reporting Thursday that 14 city workers had tested positive in the first six days of the year. That included one employee at the police department and three at the fire department. However, the infections have forced the city to close the Banneker Community Center through Jan. Health, city and university officials said they worry the situation will get worse before it gets better because the more contagious omicron variant likely has yet to fully engulf the state.
They urged people to get vaccinated, get booster shots, get tested if they feel sick, to wear masks when indoors and to remain at least 6 feet apart from others. The rising number of cases also is making it difficult to get testing appointments and very difficult to find at-home tests. Penny Caudill, administrator of the Monroe County Health Department, urged people who have symptoms to find a testing site and make an appointment through the Indiana State Department of Health website: tinyurl.
The high number of tests also is overwhelming the laboratories that analyze the tests, which may prolong the turnaround times, Caudill said. People may have gotten used to getting their results within 24 hours, but they now may have to wait 48 or even 72 hours.
People who are symptomatic and do not have access to a test right away should assume that they have COVID and should isolate to prevent infecting others. Caudill said people should avoid infections with omicron the same way that they have protected themselves from the other variants. That means good hand washing, staying at least 6 feet apart, getting vaccinated, getting a booster shot when appropriate and wearing masks.
Any mask is better than none, Caudill said, but a quality mask — multiple layers, tight fit, N95 or KN95 — can reduce infection risk even more. She also warned though, that masks must fit tightly, and that a poorly fitting KN95 mask may offer less protection than a well-fitting cloth mask. Aaron Carroll said the metric is misleading, because as more people get vaccinated, more people with vaccinations will get breakthrough cases.
It was to prevent bad outcomes from cases, like hospitalizations and death. Where to get vaccinated: coronavirus. Boris Ladwig is the city government reporter for The Herald-Times. Even more convincingly, we have actual price data with which to compare hospitals, and the East Central Indiana hospital monopoly is ground zero for these shenanigans. There are three hospitals in the region, each owned by IU Health.
Since the Indiana legislature pressured hospitals to report prices into a public database, we can make clear comparisons about their monopolistic pricing practices.
This is profoundly hurtful to local businesses and consumers. Profits grew at nearly five times of the cost of healthcare in Muncie from to Again, these are the data the hospital reports to the Internal Revenue Service. They tend to use other data in their public relations and Op-Ed columns. I will leave it to the reader which data to believe. None of this was necessary. Had Indiana enforced anti-trust laws using federal guidelines, almost no hospital acquisition would have occurred over the past quarter century.
But it gets worse — once the not-for-profit hospital system created its networks, it began to solidify its power and set prices like old school monopolists. It bought physicians practices just like a monopolist seeking to control the upstream markets.
It bought affiliated health providers so it can control the downstream market. Congress, the Department of Justice and the Indiana legislature will surely continue to tighten the oversight of hospitals, but their real fear is civil litigation. There are 6. There are also thousands of frustrated physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers who see the effect of this monopoly on patients and communities.
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