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
(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 18, 2020
(The Conversation) – Ultimately, hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. and billions globally are going to need a coronavirus vaccine – and potentially two doses of it. This mass vaccination effort is going to require a complex vaccine … 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
(The Wall Street Journal) – The U.S. government plans to begin shipping the first Covid-19 vaccine within 24 hours after regulators authorize its use, federal health officials said. Shipments of the first vaccine cleared for use would start soon after … Read More
September 17, 2020
(Medscape) – Refusing to wear a mask triggers anger from many people worldwide. In an extreme case recently, eight people in East Java, Indonesia who refused to wear face masks in public were punished by being ordered to dig graves … Read More
September 16, 2020
(Kaiser Health News) – More than 20 states either don’t release or have incomplete data on the rapid antigen tests now considered key to containing the coronavirus, which has sickened more than 6 million Americans. The lapses leave officials and … Read More
September 16, 2020
(STAT News) – A drug being developed by Eli Lilly helped sick patients rid their systems of the virus that causes Covid-19 sooner and may have prevented them from landing in the hospital, according to newly released data. The drug … Read More
September 16, 2020
(CNN) – If you choose not to have your child vaccinated, your pediatrician may refuse to treat your family. More than half of pediatricians’ offices in the United States included in a new study published in the medical journal JAMA … Read More
September 16, 2020
(ABC News) – As the possibility of a widely available COVID-19 vaccine steadily approaches, initial limitations in supply have left experts worldwide asking: Who gets the vaccine first? The World Health Organization and its appointed Strategic Advisory Group of Experts … Read More
