Health & Fitness

As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the nation and infections and hospitalizations rise, medical administrators are scrambling to find enough nursing help — especially in rural areas and at small hospitals.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, children are dealing with another crisis. Injuries are the leading cause of death and disability to U.S. children from 1 to 18 years old. Every day, 20 children die from preventable injuries, resulting in more deaths than all other diseases combined.

The Trump Administration and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are delivering on their commitment to foster innovation in Medicaid by providing states with new tools to help beneficiaries return home from institutional settings without sacrificing safety or quality of care.

If Donald Trump’s “world-class” treatment for COVID-19 at Walter Reed Medical Center has shown us anything, it is the unequal treatment Americans with the disease have received for their illness. Trump received the best experimental drugs, constant monitoring, and clearly cossetted surroundings — a lot more comfortable than Americans who died at New York City’s Javits Center field hospital or at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, where nurses begged for ventilators and one ER doctor pleaded , “We don’t have the tools that we need.”

California has seen an uptick in coronavirus-related hospitalizations and intensive care admissions in the last two weeks, prompting renewed warnings Tuesday from Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state's top health official even as newly confirmed cases remain well below the recent surge across much of the nation.