August 7, 2020
(UPI) – People who have a severe heart attack are more than twice as likely to die during the COVID-19 pandemic than they would have been in 2018-19, before the disease impacted the United States, according to an analysis published … Read More
August 7, 2020
(CNN) – Covid-19 patients not showing symptoms may have similar amounts of the novel coronavirus in their bodies as those who do show symptoms, according to a new study from South Korea. This would suggest that they could still spread … Read More
August 6, 2020
(Science) – Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly and extensively to most countries in the world, resulting in considerable mortality in Europe and the United States, as well as in numerous upper-middle-income countries in South America and Asia. Experts … Read More
August 6, 2020
(New York Times) – Most of the evidence for asymptomatic spread has been based on observation (a person without symptoms nevertheless sickened others) or elimination (people became ill but could not be connected to anyone with symptoms). A new study … Read More
August 6, 2020
(FiveThirtyEight) – Given the urgency to find a vaccine for COVID-19, these kinds of trials are attracting a lot of attention from researchers, bioethicists and the public at large. It’s encouraging that there are tens of thousands of people like … Read More
August 6, 2020
(The Conversation) – Across the United States, prisons and jails have become hot spots for COVID-19. Governments at the state and federal level are being pressed to release inmates before the end of their sentence in order to minimize the … Read More
August 6, 2020
(The Guardian) – Healthcare workers of color were more likely to care for patients with suspected or confirmed Covid-19, more likely to report inadequate or reused protective gear and nearly twice as likely as white colleagues to test positive for … Read More
August 5, 2020
(STAT News) – But we need to be realistic: A vaccine is not a silver bullet. Even if one (or more) is proven safe and effective, vaccines are notoriously difficult to make and distribute. People will continue to contract the … Read More
August 5, 2020
(Associated Press) – On America’s southern doorstep, the Rio Grande Valley, the U.S. failure to contain the pandemic has been laid bare. For nearly a month, this borderland of 2 million people in South Texas pleaded for a field hospital, … Read More
August 5, 2020
(ABC News) – U.S. testing for the coronavirus is dropping even as infections remain high and the death toll rises by more than 1,000 a day, a worrisome trend that officials attribute largely to Americans getting discouraged over having to … Read More
