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Take a second to remember what your life was like one year ago. For most of us, it all feels like a distant memory. From how we work to how we learn, who we see and where we can go, our day-to-day has changed drastically. And some of those changes have lasting consequences. In the second episode of our series The Longest Year, we hear the stories of people across the country about how theyve survived the last year: a woman who contracted COVID-19 and now lives with its physical and mental scars, a recent college grad who lost his job and, because of the financial strain, almost lost his marriage, and a mother and her third-grader trying to figure out how to manage work and school from home.
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Covid-19 changed the way we shop. The big question now is which of the new habits will stick once the pandemic recedes.
Instead of lining up on Black Friday for a bargain-priced TV, shoppers ordered from home and picked up curbside. Even those who rarely bought online before the pandemic relied on the internet to bring them everything from groceries to pajamas to fake eyelashes.
Consumers found some of the experiences forced by Covid to be convenient, said Stefan Larsson, the chief executive officer of PVH Corp., which owns Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein and other brands. Anything that they perceive as making their life easier will be here to stay.
Some retailers wont be around to find out. Weaker players such as Lord & Taylor and J.C. Penney Co. filed for bankruptcy protection and closed hundreds of stores, while big companies such as Walmart Inc., Target Corp. , Amazon.com Inc. and Home Depot Inc. consolidated their power.
Those that survived are now experimenting with new ways of doing business. They are streaming virtual shopping events and allowing consumers to book online consultations. They are doing away with traditional cashiers and rolling out contactless payment systems. They are using their stores as warehouses that deliver packages to customers directly.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Friday, March 12, marks one year since the first COVID-19 case was reported in Knox County.
Knox County's first reported COVID-19 case came just one day after the World Health Organization declared it a global pandemic.
Since that day, more than 47,000 people in Knox County have tested positive for the virus, 1,200 have required hospital care and we've lost 593 of our Knox County neighbors, according to our last check.
Healthcare workers on the frontlines everywhere have experienced what is known as "compassion fatigue" from seeing those deaths first-hand.
However, despite everything, they believe there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Currently, more than 34,600 people are on the vaccine waitlist in Knox County.
The Knox County Health Department and UT Medical Center agree things started to look up when those shots arrived almost three months ago.
Though access to COVID-19 vaccines remains limited, polling suggests a slice of Americans want to wait and see how the shots work for other people before they get vaccinated themselves.
But experts say that getting the vaccine as soon as its available to you will be vital for protecting yourself and others, stopping virus variants in their tracks, and resuming some level of normalcy.
The share of people in this wait and see category has declined over time, according to polling by the health-policy think tank Kaiser Family Foundation, dropping from 39% in December to 31% in January. In February, the most recent survey, it stood at 22%. This happened alongside a gradual increase in the share of respondents (most recently 55%) reporting theyd either gotten at least one dose or would get the vaccine as soon as possible.
Black adults (34%), young adults aged 18 to 29 (33%), Hispanic adults (26%), adults without a college degree (25%), and non-health essential workers (25%) had the highest shares of respondents in the wait-and-see group.
The most common concerns in the wait-and-see cohort were the potential for serious side effects; the possibility of getting COVID-19 from the vaccine, which health authorities say cannot happen; the prospect of missing work due to side effects; and the potential need to pay out of pocket for the vaccine, though the vaccines are free. A quarter of wait-and-seers said a one-dose vaccine would make them more likely to get their shot.
Susan Lopez, a hospitalist affiliated with Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, says community members have raised questions about waiting to get vaccinated against COVID-19 during every one of the 12 vaccine-outreach sessions she has done.
I get a lot of questions about long-term effects, like months and years later on, especially with regards to mRNA vaccines since they keep hearing its new technology, Lopez told MarketWatch. Many people also feel overwhelmed by the technological logistics of registering for a vaccine appointment, she added.
Lopez said she tells community members who say they want to wait that shes there to provide them with the information they need to make the decision best for them. But she reassures them that no safety steps were skipped in the vaccine-development process, that all of the vaccines have been studied, and that researchers will continue to gather safety information.
Lopez stressed the importance of asking people why they want to wait rather than assuming. Healthcare professionals should acknowledge that those feelings are valid, she said, while also answering questions and providing information.
About one-fifth of respondents to KFFs latest survey said they definitely wouldnt get vaccinated (15%) or would do so only if required (7%). But KFF chief executive Drew Altman likened the wait-and-see cohort to persuadable swing voters. He reasoned they should be a key focus in efforts to shore up vaccine confidence, especially in Black and Latino communities where the need for building vaccine confidence and addressing information needs and barriers to access is the most urgent.
He also predicted many may get their shots after seeing people they know get vaccinated without incident.
The ones whose minds can be more readily changed are in the wait-and-see group and hopefully all of their minds can be changed, said David Abramson, a clinical associate professor of social and behavioral sciences at the NYU School of Global Public Health who is doing research on vaccine hesitancy and was not involved in KFFs research.
If that was the case, wed get closer to an 80% [coverage] rate, and that would be terrific, Abramson added. Wed be at the herd-immunity rates that wed want to be at.
The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency-use authorization to the two-dose Pfizer PFE, +0.39% -BioNTech BNTX, -0.30% and Moderna MRNA, -3.11% vaccines, as well as the one-shot Johnson & Johnson JNJ, +0.31% vaccine.
As of Thursday afternoon, 64 million people in the U.S. (19.3% of the total population) had received at least one vaccine dose, and 33.8 million (10.2% of the population) were fully vaccinated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Whats the rush to get vaccinated? For starters, the longer you wait, the longer you arent protected from COVID-19, said Alison Buttenheim, a behavioral epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
People tend to have concerns about vaccine safety and efficacy, she added, but many dont appropriately weigh the risks of the disease theyre trying to prevent. Its really easy to only focus on the benefits and potential harms and risks of the vaccine, and just ignore the disease, she said. We all misestimate our risk.
William Parker, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago with firsthand experience caring for patients with severe COVID-19, says he emphasizes to wait-and-see people that they dont want to wind up seeing him in the hospital.
I generally scare them about how bad COVID can be, Parker said. Whats so exciting about the vaccines is they are tremendously effective at preventing these really bad outcomes hospitalizations and deaths.
The virus had killed more than 530,000 people in the U.S. as of Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The urgency stems from a need to starve the virus of hosts, Abramson said. Public-health professionals want to cut down the number of people in a community who are potential carriers and transmitters of the virus, he said, so to the extent that more and more people get vaccinated, that will soon begin to suppress the virus population itself.
Health professionals also want to rapidly suppress the number of people sick with COVID-19, Abramson added and for every day that people wait and do not get vaccinated, thats one more day that they have at least the possibility of getting sick, and in the worst-case scenario, being hospitalized and maybe even dying.
To me, speed is really the answer here, he said.
The threat of COVID-19 variants also makes vaccination a time-sensitive goal, experts say. The variant first identified in South Africa, for example, is more infectious and appears to make coronavirus vaccines less effective. A senior U.K. scientist warned last month that the far-more-infectious variant first identified in the U.K. may sweep the world.
As the virus has more time and more hosts to interact with, there is a greater possibility that additional variants will emerge, or the variants that are currently circulating will get more of a foothold in the population and become more of a serious issue, Abramson said. Its really just a mathematical game of reducing the number of potential hosts.
Lopez added, Every opportunity that we have to protect people earlier rather than later is going to be a chance to save a life or to save someone from having long-term COVID effects.
The CDC said this week that fully vaccinated people can gather indoors and unmasked with other fully vaccinated people. They can also do so with unvaccinated people from one other household, assuming no one in that household is at heightened COVID-19 risk.
(Fully vaccinated people, meaning those who had their second or only vaccine dose at least two weeks earlier, still need to wear masks and practice physical distancing in public settings, the guidance added.)
The CDC guidance, along with any additional state-level guidance, will provide a pathway back to normalcy for many people, Abramson said. The faster people get vaccinated, the faster they will be able to take advantage of changes in distancing protocols, protective measures, etc., he said.
My wife and I are fully vaccinated, [and] one of my colleagues and his wife are fully vaccinated, so we all had dinner together, Parker added. Thats totally acceptable once youre fully vaccinated.
And from a herd-immunity standpoint, Buttenheim said, the quicker we can get to 70% or 80% coverage in the country, the quicker we can pick up our lives again and, if this is important to you, keep vulnerable people safe.
One altruistic reason to get vaccinated as soon as the shot is available to you is to set a visible example for others, particularly if youre from a group thats experiencing high levels of vaccine hesitancy or potential delay, Buttenheim added.
Were really social creatures, and we definitely look around our social environments to get cues on what to do, she said.
Experts have also raised concerns about Americans passing up the vaccine theyre first offered and waiting for a more effective option the result of disparate topline vaccine-efficacy numbers that scientists say shouldnt be directly compared.
The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines boast a roughly 95% efficacy rate, but their trials were conducted prior to rising concerns about coronavirus variants, against which J&Js 66%-efficacious viral vector-based vaccine was tested. The global J&J efficacy figure also obscures the vaccines 72% efficacy in the U.S. and 85% efficacy against severe disease.
While the two mRNA-based vaccines are different from the J&J vaccine in several key ways, all three are effective at preventing severe disease, hospitalization and death the measures that matter most, according to public-health experts.
The information I give [people] is essentially, no matter which vaccine you get, its preventing hospitalization and death so the best one is going to be the one they can get to first, Lopez said.
Buttenheim agreed. We just want people to get the vaccine that theyre offered, she said. Theyre all great.
Also read: Americans debate what COVID-19 vaccine they want, but Fauci says to take whats available to you
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JUNEAU The case of a severely ill Alaska Senate aide is influencing how the Alaska Legislature deals with a senator who has declined to follow the Legislatures pandemic precautions.
As of Thursday, seven people who work in the Alaska Capitol have tested positive for COVID-19 since an outbreak began in late February. An additional 22 people have quarantined in connection with those positive cases. Konrad Jackson, a top aide to Senate President Peter Micciche, is one of the seven cases and has been hospitalized with significant breathing problems.
A spokesperson for Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau confirmed that Jackson is a patient there. Through the spokesperson, Jackson referred questions about his condition to Capitol officials.
Micciche, who had a mild case of COVID-19 in the fall, had been seeking to relax the Capitols COVID-19 testing and screening requirements before the outbreak here.
Yeah, its changed my opinion, he said of Jacksons case. Talking to him now and hearing him struggle makes it real for me.
On Wednesday, Micciche was one of 18 senators who voted in favor of excluding Sen. Lora Reinbold, R-Eagle River, from most in-person legislative activities. Reinbold did not vote, and Sen. Mike Shower, R-Wasilla, voted no.
Legislators and Capitol employees are required to wear CDC-approved masks, take two coronavirus tests per week and undergo daily screening for symptoms and fever.
Reinbold hasnt done that. For the first seven weeks of the legislative session, shes worn a loose-fitting face shield and ignored the testing and screening requirements.
Those testing requirements revealed the Capitols outbreak, and Micciche said that makes them critical for preventing COVID spread in a place where 450 people work in close confines.
Despite Wednesdays vote, Reinbold returned to the Capitol on Thursday and attempted to attend two committee hearings. At the second, she was confronted by Micciche, Senate Rules Committee Chairman Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak; Sen. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage; and Shower.
Everyone else in this building is following the rules. Every single person, Micciche told Reinbold during a tense moment in a Capitol hallway.
My chief of staff is fighting for his life right now, Lora. Im not screwing around anymore. Were done. Youre going to follow the rules or youre going to leave the building. Im never unpleasant but Im getting really bothered. Quit playing games, he said.
One of Reinbolds aides attempted to capture the scene on cellphone video, but Stevens told her to shut off the camera or be fired. Reinbold has put previous confrontations on Facebook.
Reinbold claimed she saw Micciche in a Senate hallway without a mask and said she felt like she is caught in a Catch-22 because she needs to represent her constituents but isnt being allowed to do so. (Micciche said he was exiting an office and putting on his mask when he met Reinbold.)
Stevens and Micciche said all Reinbold needs to do is share proof of a negative COVID test and wear a proper mask. Reinbold said she has taken a test, but Stevens and Micciche said she needs to show proof and hasnt.
Stevens said that if Reinbold enters any committee hearing without a mask that follows the rules, legislative staff will leave and the meeting will be canceled.
Staff will not be in there if you are not wearing a proper mask, he said.
Reinbold eventually agreed to teleconference into the hearing, but without her physical presence, the Senate State Affairs Committee was unable to advance several bills.
Later in the day, Micciche said he is frustrated that someone can look at the risks of COVID and not help protect the others in the building.
Deciding to not follow the rules and put people at risk for a few Facebook likes is not my idea of responsible behavior, especially when youre willing to wear a mask to fly here and youre willing to wear a mask to go on a school tour, he said, referring to instances when Reinbold was seen wearing a mask that met the Capitols standards.
A Facebook post showing Reinbold with a standard mask was deleted from her page.
Were going to do our part to get through this session, keeping people safe. And if folks cant follow the rules, they will not be here, Micciche said.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of March 12, 2021, there have been 2,280,054 total confirmatory laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 134,842 total cases and 2,511 total deaths.
In the past 24 hours, DHHR has confirmed the deaths of a 76-year old male from Kanawha County, a 98-year old female from Randolph County, a 70-year old male from Monongalia County, a 56-year old female from Brooke County, a 74-year old female from McDowell County, a 78-year old female from Morgan County, a 70-year old male from Berkeley County and a 54-year old female from Kanawha County.
As previously noted, there were 168 COVID-19 related deaths that were not properly reported to DHHR. That number now stands at 165 deaths. Wayne Nursing and Rehabilitation Center had been listed with two deaths, but through the quality assurance process two individuals were determined to have recovered from COVID-19 at the time of death. Wayne Nursing and Rehabilitation Center now has zero deaths not properly reported.
Another death was determined to be a duplicate as it was listed with the first name as the last name on the death report. This death was listed as occurring at Berkeley Medical Center. This facility now has zero deaths not properly reported. DHHRs Bureau for Public Health will be investigating each instance of non-reported deaths to determine what occurred.
Those include: a 90-year old female from Ohio County, a 75-year old male from Ohio County, an 86-year old male from Harrison County, an 82-year old male from Wetzel County, a 75-year old male from Kanawha County, a 71-year old male from Mingo County, an 88-year old male from Berkeley County, an 85-year old male from Putnam County, a 55-year old male from Putnam County, an 86-year old male from Greenbrier County, a 78-year old female from Jackson County, a 72-year old female from Raleigh County, a 79-year old male from Mercer County, an 81-year old male from Marion County, a 78-year old male from Tyler County, a 61-year old male from Putnam County, a 91-year old female from Putnam County, a 94-year old female from Mercer County, a 92-year old female from Wetzel County, an 85-year old female from Wood County, a 67-year old male from Jefferson County, an 81-year old male from Wood County, an 85-year old female from Cabell County, a 70-year old male from Wood County, a 92-year old female from Greenbrier County, a 72-year old male from Hancock County, a 67-year old female from Tyler County, an 82-year old male from Barbour County, a 61-year old female from Kanawha County, an 85-year old female from Ritchie County, a 78-year old female from Monongalia County, a 75-year old male from Marion County, a 54-year old male from Kanawha County, a 93-year old female from Kanawha County, an 83-year old male from Jackson County, a 92-year old male from Jefferson County, an 89-year old male from Cabell County, a 73-year old male from Wayne County, an 85-year old female from Wood County, a 93-year old male from Ritchie County, a 66-year old male from Logan County, a 74-year old male from Tyler County, an 87-year old male from Cabell County, an 82-year old female from Greenbrier County, a 92-year old female from Pendleton County, an 87-year old male from Preston County, an 85-year old male from Jefferson County, a 59-year old male from Marion County, a 50-year old male from Greenbrier County, a 98-year old male from Hancock County, a 71-year old female from Wood County, a 90-year old male from Wood County, a 76-year old male from Raleigh County, a 93-year old male from Harrison County, a 93-year old female from Hancock County, an 88-year old male from Jefferson County, a 75-year old male from Brooke County, a 92-year old female from Hancock County, a 78-year old male from Berkeley County, a 90-year old female from Ohio County, an 83-year old male from Lincoln County, a 97-year old male from Putnam County, an 83-year old female from Preston County, a 70-year old male from Fayette County, a 66-year old male from Brooke County, an 80-year old female from Mineral County, a 93-year old male from Kanawha County, an 85-year old female from Monongalia County, a 69-year old male from Marion County, an 86-year old female from Marshall County, a 92-year old female from Monongalia County, a 75-year old female from Kanawha County, a 72-year old female from Wood County, a 75-year old female from Raleigh County, a 69-year old male from Pleasants County, an 81-year old female from Mercer County, an 82-year old male from Tyler County, a 70-year old male from Harrison County, a 50-year old female from Kanawha County, an 81-year old male from Wood County, an 88-year old male from Clay County, a 92-year old male from Greenbrier County, a 76-year old female from Hardy County, a 79-year old male from Wood County, a 73-year old male from McDowell County, a 102-year old male from Wood County, a 96-year old female from Mercer County, a 79-year old male from Harrison County, an 82-year old female from Greenbrier County, a 92-year old female from Cabell County, a 64-year old female from Lincoln County, an 85-year old male from Jackson County, a 71-year old female from Wood County, an 87-year old male from Hardy County, a 74-year old female from Cabell County, an 82-year old male from Monongalia County, a 72-year old male from Lincoln County, a 92-year old female from Wood County, a 74-year old male from Monongalia County, a 91-year old female from Wood County, an 89-year old male from Wood County, a 73-year old female from Harrison County, a 79-year old male from Barbour County, an 81-year old male from Boone County, a 61-year old male from Roane County, a 74-year old female from Marion County, a 92-year old female from Kanawha County, a 53-year old male from Pendleton County, a 42-year old male from Berkeley County, a 92-year old female from Monongalia County, a 79-year old female from Mercer County, a 76-year old male from Putnam County, an 80-year old male from Raleigh County, a 78-year old male from Randolph County, an 86-year old female from Cabell County, an 88-year old male from Marion County, an 82-year old female from Ohio County, a 78-year old female from Wood County, a 70-year old male from Ohio County, an 83-year old male from Kanawha County, a 72-year old male from Kanawha County, a 78-year old female from Kanawha County, a 90-year old female from Kanawha County, a 75-year old male from Marshall County, an 84-year old male from Mineral County, a 75-year old female from Mingo County, an 82-year old male from Kanawha County, a 90-year old female from Kanawha County, a 68-year old male from Fayette County, a 73-year old male from Raleigh County, a 71-year old male from Fayette County, a 99-year old female from Jackson County, a 66-year old female from Kanawha County, a 74-year old male from Kanawha County, an 89-year old male from Wood County, a 26-year old female from Putnam County, a 92-year old female from Marshall County, a 76-year old female from Ohio County, an 84-year old male from Marshall County, a 91-year old male from Wood County, an 88-year old female from Greenbrier County, an 85-year old male from Harrison County, a 61-year old male from Brooke County, a 74-year old female from Kanawha County, an 89-year old male from Monongalia County, a 90-year old male from Mason County, a 91-year old female from Brooke County, an 81-year old female from Monongalia County, an 87-year old male from Tyler County, a 66-year old male from Kanawha County, an 87-year old female from Putnam County, an 87-year old female from Kanawha County, a 77-year old male from Wood County, a 70-year old female from Wyoming County, an 89-year old female from Wood County, an 81-year old female from Webster County, a 47-year old female from Hardy County, an 88-year old female from Wood County, an 81-year old female from Grant County, an 85-year old male from Wyoming County, an 82-year old female from Greenbrier County, a 74-year old female from Hancock County, an 80-year old female from Marshall County, a 73-year old female from Wood County, and a 58-year old male from Kanawha County.
We are devastated to report these additional COVID-19 related deaths. Every life lost to this pandemic is a tragedy, said Bill J. Crouch, Cabinet Secretary of DHHR. Our thoughts go out to the families.
CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (1,283), Berkeley (9,969), Boone (1,633), Braxton (788), Brooke (2,037), Cabell (8,055), Calhoun (234), Clay (380), Doddridge (479), Fayette (2,760), Gilmer (721), Grant (1,124), Greenbrier (2,445), Hampshire (1,558), Hancock (2,595), Hardy (1,308), Harrison (4,943), Jackson (1,697), Jefferson (3,692), Kanawha (12,322), Lewis (1,063), Lincoln (1,269), Logan (2,771), Marion (3,764), Marshall (3,089), Mason (1,805), McDowell (1,385), Mercer (4,276), Mineral (2,601), Mingo (2,185), Monongalia (8,260), Monroe (976), Morgan (943), Nicholas (1,237), Ohio (3,691), Pendleton (623), Pleasants (811), Pocahontas (599), Preston (2,612), Putnam (4,330), Raleigh (4,888), Randolph (2,426), Ritchie (630), Roane (508), Summers (705), Taylor (1,094), Tucker (509), Tyler (638), Upshur (1,717), Wayne (2,616), Webster (338), Wetzel (1,106), Wirt (360), Wood (7,226), Wyoming (1,768).
Delays may be experienced with the reporting of information from the local health department to DHHR. As case surveillance continues at the local health department level, it may reveal that those tested in a certain county may not be a resident of that county, or even the state as an individual in question may have crossed the state border to be tested.
