Farmworkers face COVID risk as they harvest in California
Jovita Villarruel, a migrant worker from Mexicali, stayed in Mecca while continuing pepper and grape picking during the spring. She contracted COVID-19 in June, one of several cases at the Galilee Center shelter, highlighting the struggle to balance income and health among essential farm laborers in the Coachella Valley.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Jovita Villarruel
Mexicali
California
Villarruel
Coachella Valley
Mecca
Galilee Center
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Monterey County
COVID-19 Linked to Brain Complications in Small U.K. Study
A Lancet Psychiatry report details a three week U.K. survey of 153 hospitalized COVID-19 patients with new neurological or psychiatric diagnoses. Among 125 with records, 57 had strokes and 39 had altered mental states. 10 psychosis and seven encephalitis. Ages ranged 23 to 94, with many affected across ages.
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Lancet Psychiatry
U.K
Benedict Michael
University of Liverpool
Babak Jahrami
Northwestern Medicine
OSHA masks not a serious hazard claim debunked
USA TODAY reports social media claims that masks cause brain damage and low oxygen are largely false. OSHA notes oxygen dropping below 19.5 percent can affect breathing and attention, but cloth and surgical masks do not sharply reduce oxygen in healthy individuals. Medical experts say long-term mask use does not raise carbon dioxide to toxic levels.
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NASA
OSHA
USA Today
Kelli Randell
Aeroflow Healthcare
Health.com
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