The Latest: San Josรฉ returning to Shark Tank in mid-February
(AP Photo/David Zalubowski)The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:___The San Josรฉ Sharks finally know when they are returning home. The Sharks say they need to work out several health and safety issues before returning to the Bay Area. ___UConn says it has postponed its next two men's basketball games, including Thursdayโs scheduled contest with No. ___The University at Albany menโs basketball team has been placed on a temporary pause following a presumptive positive COVID-19 test within the teamโs Tier 1 personnel. Last week, members of the University of Vermontโs womenโs basketball team decided not to continue their season and opted out, disrupting the league schedule.
Exhausted hospital chaplains bring solace to lonely, dying
"I have never seen this much of death and suffering," said Michealsen, who has been a chaplain for 13 years. "I often tell families that I'm holding their loved one's hand when they can't and that I am with them when they are dying when they can't be." Grieving families, unable to enter the hospital because of the deadly virus, watch through the iPad heโs carried into the room with him. Deegan and about a dozen other chaplains cover shifts that extend to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He was sure he'd eventually be infected as COVID-19 patients began pouring into the hospital every day.
Nurses fear what's to come: 'Walk down our unit for a day'
Registered nurse Nicole Grecco looks through a small window while working in a COVID-19 unit at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif., Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. A charge nurse at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angelesโ San Fernando Valley, Carrillo is haunted by the daily counts of COVID-19 patients. In Holy Cross, โHere Comes the Sunโ by the Beatles plays throughout the hospital when a COVID-19 patient is discharged. Holy Cross charge nurse Melanie LaMadrid tends to her patients in 12-hour shifts, holding their hands in her purple gloves. โI wish they could just walk down our unit for a day and look at the faces of some of these patients,โ Carillo said.
Dark days: Experts fear the holidays will fuel the US crisis
Airports also recorded around 1 million travelers on each of the five days between last Friday and Tuesday. Fauci, who turned 80 on Thursday, said he and his wife would be celebrating his birthday and the holidays with their children on Zoom. It took 292 days to reach 1 million cases on Nov. 11. Nurses are exhausted, terrified of whatโs next and angry at those who ignore pleas to stay home and stay safe. Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Missouri, and Shelley Adler in Fairfax, Virginia, contributed to this story.
Metro Detroit religious leaders fight for change in our community
DETROIT Since the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, cities around the country -- including Detroit -- have seen protests against police brutality and racial inequality. As we end the week with more protests and more unrest, a group of religious leaders joined Local 4 for a roundtable to discuss working to be part of change in our community and this country. The congregants at the Cathedral of St. Paul in Detroit and many others are virtually fighting for a change in race relations. My sense is, and Im not alone in this, is racism is primarily a white problem, said Bishop Bonnie Perry, of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan. They force themselves into the fire to steel themselves to fight for change.