September 18, 2020
(Newsweek) – Coronavirus cases in Europe have climbed past five million, with over 300,000 new infections reported last week alone across the region. Between September 7 and September 13, Europe reported 323,536 new COVID-19 cases, according to the latest report … Read More
September 18, 2020
(Bloomberg) – AstraZeneca Plc, the drugmaker working with the University of Oxford on a Covid-19 vaccine, contradicted a report that a volunteer in U.K. tests of the shot developed a rare nerve disease that might have signaled severe safety problems. … Read More
September 18, 2020
(The Guardian) – Iran appears to be in the grip of a “third wave” of the coronavirus outbreak, with the number of new infections above 3,000 a day – as high as at any point since the virus first hit … Read More
September 18, 2020
(ABC News) – A drug company said Friday that a medicine it sells to tamp down inflammation has helped prevent the need for breathing machines in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the first large study that primarily enrolled Hispanics and Blacks. … Read More
September 18, 2020
(Associated Press) – An Associated Press review of medical records for four women and interviews with lawyers revealed growing allegations that Amin performed surgeries and other procedures on detained immigrants that they never sought or didn’t fully understand. Although some … Read More
September 18, 2020
(NPR) – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which regulate nursing facilities, are lifting the ban on visitors, effective immediately. CMS imposed the restriction in March in an effort to control outbreaks of the coronavirus. Advocates for nursing home … Read More
September 17, 2020
(New York Times) – Pregnant women who are infected with the coronavirus and hospitalized are at risk for developing serious complications, and may face an elevated risk for delivering their babies prematurely, according to new studies from the Centers for … Read More
September 17, 2020
(The New York Times) – The biotech company Moderna released a 135-page document on Thursday that spells out the details of how it is conducting the late-stage trial of its coronavirus vaccine, and how safety and efficacy will be determined. … Read More
September 17, 2020
(Science) – Even a world-class orchestra will produce a cacophony if its strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion sections don’t play in harmony. Similarly, the sophisticated human immune system can fail to beat back a pathogen if its many players don’t … Read More
September 17, 2020
(Medscape) – More than 7000 healthcare workers worldwide have died of COVID-19, according to a new analysis released this month by Amnesty International. The group called it “a crisis on a staggering scale.” Mexico has had the most healthcare workers … Read More
