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	health Daily update ⋅ March 31, 2020
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	The New York Times William Helmreich, Sociologist and a Walker in the City, Dies at 74 The New York Times This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. When William B. Helmreich was 9 years old, his father, a Polish-Jewish refugee from the Nazis who was curious about his latest haven, New ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR CDC Director On Models For The Months To Come: 'This Virus Is Going To Be With Us' NPR When infectious pathogens have threatened the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been front and center. During the H1N1 flu of 2009, the Ebola crisis in 2014, and the mosquito-borne outbreak of Zika in 2015, the CDC has ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Coronavirus and Sex: Questions and Answers The New York Times These are not sexy times. As an obstetrician and gynecologist in the Bay Area, I've been caring for my patients via telemedicine for the past three weeks because of the new coronavirus pandemic. When I ask patients about new sex partners — a standard ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Pregnant Women Worry About Pandemic's Impact On Labor, Delivery And Babies NPR Among the people whose lives are being turned upside down by the coronavirus are many pregnant women. As they prepare for one of the most intense and emotional experiences of their lives, they face the possibility of delivering babies in hospitals filled ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post CDC considering recommending general public wear face coverings in public Washington Post Should we all be wearing masks? That simple question is under review by officials in the U.S. government and has sparked a grass-roots pro-mask movement. But there's still no consensus on whether widespread use of facial coverings would make a ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Restrictions Are Slowing Coronavirus Infections, New Data Suggest The New York Times Harsh measures, including stay-at-home orders and restaurant closures, are contributing to rapid drops in the numbers of fevers — a signal symptom of most coronavirus infections — recorded in states across the country, according to intriguing new data ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape COVID-19: More Hydroxychloroquine Data From France, More Questions Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. A controversial study led by Didier Raoult, MD, PhD, on the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in patients with COVID-19 was ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Coronavirus symptoms: A list and when to seek help CNN (CNN) What are the telling signs that you may have the novel coronavirus which causes Covid-19? Quarantine: How to prepare for possible coronavirus infection. The main list of acute symptoms at this time is actually quite short and can appear anywhere ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Why are the Gwent valleys a hotspot? BBC News Why have Newport and the Gwent valleys become a "hotspot" for coronavirus? Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, which is responsible for running hospital and NHS services in the area, is fast becoming the frontline in Wales' fight against the pandemic. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN New Covid-19 listener questions answered: Dr. Sanjay Gupta's coronavirus podcast for March 31 CNN (CNN) As cases of Covid-19 rise, so do questions and uncertainties about it. In this episode, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta responds to some of the e-mails and voice messages listeners have shared. You can listen to this episode in ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Days After a Funeral in a Georgia Town, Coronavirus 'Hit Like a Bomb' The New York Times It was an old-fashioned Southern funeral. There was a repast table crammed with casseroles, Brunswick stew, fried chicken and key lime cake. Andrew Jerome Mitchell, a retired janitor, was one of 10 siblings. They told stories, debated for the umpteenth time ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN What is coronavirus and Covid-19? An explainer CNN (CNN) Coronavirus. Just the word strikes fear into our hearts. "Novel coronavirus" is the proper term for this brand-new virus wreaking havoc on our unprepared world. Coronavirus symptoms: A list and when to seek help. But you can also call this nasty villain ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Topol: US Betrays Healthcare Workers in Coronavirus Disaster Medscape The year 2020 started with American physicians, nurses, and the whole healthcare workforce dispirited, in a deep state of burnout, with the worst rates of clinical depression and suicides that have been recorded. Indeed, this was not confined to the United ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Selma Blair gives comforting advice amid coronavirus in conversation with Miley Cyrus USA TODAY Selma Blair has been vocal about her health through the years, and she's continuing to use her voice to offer advice and comfort amid the coronavirus pandemic. The actress on Monday (virtually) sat down with Miley Cyrus for a new episode of the singer's ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News World Health Organization Antimicrobial Expert Explains Transmission Of Coronavirus NPR NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Dr. Hanan Balkhy, assistant director-general for antimicrobial resistance at the World Health Organization, about the transmissibility of the coronavirus. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The World Health Organization says ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post FDA authorizes widespread use of unproven drugs to treat coronavirus, saying possible benefit outweighs risk Washington Post The Food and Drug Administration has given emergency approval to a Trump administration plan to distribute millions of doses of anti-malarial drugs to hospitals across the country, saying it is worth the risk of trying unproven treatments to slow the ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Stress eating these days? Here's some help CNN (CNN) Stress eating is something that many people struggle with on a regular basis, when things are "normal." But with the coronavirus pandemic challenging us in different ways each day, it seems to have become an equal opportunity problem, affecting ... Flag as irrelevant
	TIME We Must Act Now to Protect America's Most Vulnerable from Coronavirus TIME By now, most of us are aware of what it's going to take to break the cycles of transmission of COVID-19 from person to person. We need to stay at least six feet away from each other. We must not gather in crowds. We should diligently wash our hands. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN California doctors 'cautiously hopeful' early shelter at home measures are working CNN (CNN) Two weeks after San Francisco issued the country's first shelter-in-place order for residents to prevent spread of the novel coronavirus, hospital emergency rooms throughout the region appear to be seeing the early effects. "The surge we have been ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Coronavirus could be airborne, study suggests Fox News Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. It may be possible for the novel coronavirus to transmit through the air, a new study released over the weekend suggests. In a joint study by the University of Nebraska ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY In a crisis 'you want to be with people you love, and we can't.' Grandparenting goes digital. USA TODAY A few weeks ago, Debbie Cameron saw her grandsons most days, playing the piano, making after-school snacks or singing nursery rhymes with the baby in her Chandler, Arizona, home. Then the cornavirus crisis hit and the boys were suddenly gone. Flag as irrelevant
	NPR FDA OK's Addition To Stockpile Of Malaria Drugs For COVID-19 NPR Over the weekend, the Food and Drug Administration granted two malaria drugs "emergency use authorization" for the treatment of COVID-19. The move makes it easier to add the medicines to the strategic stockpile, which can be drawn upon in the current ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Odds of Hospitalization, Death With COVID-19 Rise Steadily With Age: Study HealthDay MONDAY, March 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Once infected with the new coronavirus, a 20-something has about a 1% chance of illness so severe it requires hospitalization, and that risk rises to more than 8% for people in their 50s and to nearly 19% for ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Maintaining Cancer Care in the Face of COVID-19 Medscape Medical oncologist Anne Chiang, MD, PhD, is scrambling to maintain cancer care in New Haven, Connecticut, while COVID-19 advances unrelentingly. As deputy chief medical officer of the Smilow Cancer Network, the largest cancer care delivery system in ... Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED The Search for the Next Big Idea in Magnetic Field Mapping WIRED In August of 1905, a strange ship set sail from San Francisco Bay. The wooden brig, called Galilee—also the name of the sea where Jesus, riding in a boat himself, once allegedly soothed a storm—had been retrofitted for a new job: The Carnegie Institution's ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News As health officials feared, coronavirus outbreak invading nursing homes ABC News The coronavirus outbreak raced through four nursing homes over the weekend, infecting hundreds of residents at senior living facilities and killing at least five people. At a press conference Monday, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan called the outbreak in one ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Health Care Workers Falling Ill Amid Lack of Protections U.S. News & World Report SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Confronted with a lack of protective equipment, health care workers treating coronavirus patients are reusing masks that are supposed to be used once and then discarded and are even making their own — and more are getting infected. Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED It's Time to Face Facts, America: Masks Work WIRED When you look at photos of Americans during the 1918 influenza pandemic, one feature stands out above all else: masks. Fabric, usually white gauze, covers nearly every face. Across the country, public health experts recommended universal mask-wearing ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Major Study Casts Doubt on Routine Use of Stents, Bypass HealthDay By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, March 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Folks with clogged arteries do as well with medication and lifestyle changes as they do after undergoing invasive procedures to reopen their blood vessels, a major ... Flag as irrelevant
	Politico Mask mystery: Why are US officials dismissive of protective covering? Politico In recent weeks, facing public uncertainty about coronavirus and a severe domestic shortage of medical-grade face masks, top Trump administration officials offered adamant warnings against widespread use of masks, going so far as to argue that members ... Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED A Creator of the Ebola Vaccine Has Hope for Slowing Covid-19 WIRED When the late Bob Simon interviewed Gary Kobinger for 60 Minutes in 2015, Kobinger was working principally in a space suit in a special clean room behind bulletproof glass. At the time, he was a top virologist at Canada's National Microbiology Lab, where ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Sharp drop in Irish growth rates BBC News There has been a sharp decrease in coronavirus daily growth rates in the Republic of Ireland, down from 33% at the start of the crisis to 15%, the latest figures show. But medical authorities are warning it is too early to be complacent. There have now been 54 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Coronavirus questions answered: Can you be reinfected with the virus after you recover? Fox News Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marty Makary, professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University, joined "Special Report with Bret Baier" to answer more viewer questions regarding the continuing coronavirus outbreak. CORONAVIRUS: WHAT YOU ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Blood Test Could Spot 50 Different Cancers HealthDay By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, March 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A simple blood test for dozens of cancers is in the works. Researchers say their test can detect more than 50 kinds of cancer at early stages and pinpoint their location ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Study: Social Distancing Seems to Be Helping in King County U.S. News & World Report By GENE JOHNSON and RACHEL LA CORTE, Associated Press. SEATTLE (AP) — Public health officials and researchers said Monday social distancing appears to be helping slow the spread of COVID-19 in the Seattle area, where many of the first U.S. ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Men with erectile dysfunction may face a higher risk of early death, study says CNN (CNN) Erectile dysfunction isn't just an issue in the bedroom. It could also be an indication of a man's risk for heart disease and early death. And this holds true, a new study says, regardless of a man's testosterone levels. Erectile dysfunction is defined as the ... Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED Why Life During a Pandemic Feels So Surreal WIRED Maybe it was when you were standing in line at the grocery store—not at the checkout stand, but in front of the grocery store, neatly arranged 6 feet apart from your fellow shoppers. Maybe it was when you visited your grandma at the nursing home but had to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Smithsonian What Scientists Know About Immunity to the Novel Coronavirus Smithsonian Resolving the COVID-19 pandemic quickly hinges on a crucial factor: how well a person's immune system remembers SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the disease, after an infection has resolved and the patient is back in good health. This phenomenon, called ... Flag as irrelevant
	Harvard Health If you've been exposed to the coronavirus Harvard Health As the new coronavirus spreads across the globe, the chances that you will be exposed and get sick continue to increase. If you've been exposed to someone with COVID-19 or begin to experience symptoms of the disease, you may be asked to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Hospitals, nursing homes become battleground as California coronavirus deaths rise Los Angeles Times Hospitals and nursing homes have emerged as the front lines in the battle against the coronavirus in California as the number of cases and deaths continue to rise. In the past four days, the number of intensive care patients in the state has tripled — from 200 ... Flag as irrelevant
	KDAL News Heroic Nurses Need Full Protection Against Coronavirus, Association Says The New York Times GENEVA — More equipment is needed to protect the world's nurses working on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic to save lives, the head of the International Council of Nurses said. "They are heroic, I think there is no other way to describe what they ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus death: Essex GP Habib Zaidi had virus BBC News A GP who died after showing "textbook symptoms" had coronavirus, it has been confirmed. Dr Habib Zaidi, 76, died in intensive care at Southend Hospital, Essex, 24 hours after being taken ill on 24 March. He was one of the first doctors in the UK to die after ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Dad hid coronavirus symptoms to visit his wife in the maternity ward. Now, she's sick too USA TODAY A man who had been exposed to the coronavirus and who was himself feeling sick hid his symptoms from staff at a New York hospital so he could join his expectant wife in the maternity center. He confessed only when his wife began to show symptoms of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Laguna Beach has 22 coronavirus cases as part of 464 across Orange County, new figures show Los Angeles Times Laguna Beach has 22 of Orange County's 464 known cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, county health officials reported Monday. The county's overall cases ticked up by 37 compared with Sunday, though the number of related deaths remained ... Flag as irrelevant
	Newsweek Should We Wear Masks in Public to Protect Against Coronavirus? Here's What Who, CDC and Johns Hopkins Experts ... Newsweek Officials at the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are reportedly reviewing advice on whether people should wear masks, as the debate over the benefit of covering our faces during the COVID-19 pandemic continues. The CDC's guidance ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Famed neurosurgeon Dr. James Goodrich, who separated conjoined twins, dies from coronavirus USA TODAY Famed pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. James T. Goodrich, who separated conjoined twins, died Monday. Einstein College of Medicine in New York City attributed his death to complications associated with COVID-19. He was 73. A pioneer in his field, Goodrich ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Coronavirus outbreaks at nursing homes rise sharply in LA County Los Angeles Times Los Angeles County officials are investigating coronavirus outbreaks at 11 area nursing homes, where elderly residents with underlying health conditions are among the most vulnerable to the deadly new pathogen. That's nearly quadruple the number of ... Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED This Pandemic Is Perilously Boring WIRED When the city of Cleveland instituted a partial lockdown in October 1918, shuttering nearly all businesses after 8 pm, a writer for a local newspaper observed that life had become " just a big vacuum, a great monstrous wad of nothing." To curb the Spanish Flu, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Coronavirus epidemic 'far from over' in Asia: WHO official Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - The coronavirus epidemic is "far from over" in the Asia-Pacific region, and current measures to curb the spread of the virus are buying time for countries to prepare for large-scale community transmissions, a WHO official said on Tuesday. Flag as irrelevant
	Atlanta Journal Constitution Signs of progress in Georgia COVID fight carry a caveat: Our actions Atlanta Journal Constitution One of Georgia's top public health experts has offered a glimmer of hope, leavening the grim news in the state's coronavirus fight. A new statistical model suggests deaths in Georgia from the novel coronavirus should peak April 23, according to Dr. Carlos del ... Flag as irrelevant

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