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	health Daily update ⋅ April 10, 2020
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	The New York Times Should Young Children Wear Masks? The New York Times When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced last week that all Americans should wear cloth face coverings to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, the not-so-crafty parents of young children (myself included) immediately started ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times In Italy, Coronavirus Books Rush to Publication The New York Times MILAN — On Feb. 29, Paolo Giordano went to a dinner party in Rome. He didn't shake hands or kiss anyone's cheek, a serious breach in Italian etiquette. A week earlier, Covid-19 cases had begun to surge in two of the country's northern provinces. Giordano ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Iceland's 'Test Everyone' Goal Has Skeptics, but It May Be Working The New York Times With its small population and isolated location, Iceland has earned praise and headlines for its plan to test as many people as possible for exposure to the new coronavirus. Why, some wondered, couldn't other countries be like Iceland? But critics inside the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape COVID-19: My Social Media Journey Over Cancer Delays Medscape This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello, it's Professor Karol Sikora here, talking not about cancer as usual on Medscape, but about my Twitter account. It is related. About 3 weeks ago, it was clear that policies about COVID-19 as the infection rate ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times 'A Tragedy Is Unfolding': Inside New York's Virus Epicenter The New York Times Anil Subba, a Nepali Uber driver from Jackson Heights, Queens, died just hours after doctors at Elmhurst Hospital thought he might be strong enough to be removed from a ventilator. In the nearby Corona neighborhood, Edison Forero, 44, a restaurant worker ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Inside Chicago's refrigerated warehouse for bodies CNN (CNN) It was a grim precaution. Now, it's an unimaginable reality. Just a 20-minute drive from the heart of downtown Chicago sits a refrigerated warehouse, which is now being prepped as a space to potentially store more than 2,000 bodies amid the increase ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times At the Center of a Storm: the Search for a Proven Coronavirus Treatment The New York Times OMAHA — Beginning every morning at 5:30, Dr. Andre Kalil makes himself a double espresso, runs 10 kilometers, makes additional double espressos for himself and his wife, and heads to his office at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. A deluge ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR CDC Director: 'Very Aggressive' Contact Tracing Needed For US To Return To Normal NPR It's the question on everyone's minds: What will it take for us to come out of this period of extreme social distancing and return to some semblance of normal life? It turns out that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been working on a plan to ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN International Smoking weed and coronavirus: Even occasional use raises risk of Covid-19 complications CNN International (CNN) If you're smoking weed to ease your stress during the coronavirus pandemic, experts say it's time to think twice. Smoking marijuana, even occasionally, can increase your risk for more severe complications from Covid-19, the disease caused by the ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News CDC Director Redfield Speaks On The Potential Arc Of The Coronavirus NPR NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Of the many, many questions raised by the coronavirus pandemic, perhaps the most basic on many of our ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Iceland has tested more of its population for coronavirus than anywhere else. Here's what it learned USA TODAY By Friday, Iceland will have achieved something no other country has: tested 10% of its population for coronavirus, a figure far higher than anywhere else in the world. No country or scientist or doctor has all the answers about the pandemic that has swept the ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times 'How Do I Get Help?' Dying Coronavirus Patient Asked Alexa The New York Times They lived about 20 minutes apart in Michigan, but when a cousin gave the sisters Lou Ann Dagen and Penny Dagen each an Amazon Echo Show last year to make video calls, they would keep each other company for hours on end. The virtual assistant ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape We Still Don't Know How Many People Are in the Hospital With COVID-19 Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Late last month, Vice President Mike Pence sent a letter to administrators of the nation's 6,000 hospitals requesting a favor. He asked them to complete a ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post I'm a doctor on Rikers Island. My patients shouldn't have to die in jail. Washington Post Last weekend, my boss called me at home to tell me that Michael Tyson, a patient in custody in the New York City jail system, had died. He was 53 years old. His was the first covid-19-related death of an incarcerated patient under our care. Rikers Island ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post US advises suspending bat research over concerns coronavirus could infect North American species Washington Post The federal government is recommending that scientists suspend all fieldwork involving bats in North America out of concern that researchers could pass the novel coronavirus to the animals, possibly imperiling bat populations or creating a new reservoir for a ... Flag as irrelevant
	CIDRAP Studies: Smoking, age, other factors raise risk of COVID-19 death CIDRAP The increased risk for COVID-19 pneumonia in people who smoke cigarettes or have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be at least partly explained by increased levels of an enzyme that enables the virus to more easily enter their lungs, ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Covid-19: Can 'boosting' your immune system protect you? BBC News Forget kombucha and trendy vitamin supplements – they are nothing more than magic potions for the modern age. "Spanish Influenza – what it is and how it should be treated," read the reassuringly factual headline to an advert for Vick's VapoRub back in ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News 'Everybody is very scared': Struggle to keep apart on subway ABC News People who must continue working during the coronavirus pandemic are performing a quiet calculus each day as they try to stay safe while commuting. By. TOM HAYS and MARSHALL RITZEL Associated Press. April 9, 2020, 9:17 PM. 5 min read. 5 min read. Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY European travelers brought coronavirus to New York long before first case confirmed, studies suggest USA TODAY The new coronavirus began spreading in New York weeks before the first confirmed case and came to the area via travelers from Europe, not China, new research suggests. Two separate teams of scientists studying the genetics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in ... Flag as irrelevant
	KDAL News Three US Local Governments to Adopt Coronavirus Contact Tracing App: MIT The New York Times OAKLAND, Calif. — Three U.S. local governments plan to sign deals this week to become the first to adopt a location tracking app aimed at preventing new outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-led ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Boston Globe Elderly residents continue to bear the brunt of coronavirus infection in Mass., data show The Boston Globe Elderly residents continue to be disproportionately affected by the new coronavirus in Massachusetts, reflecting what epidemiologists have seen in other countries. In the last two weeks, the confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Massachusetts have concentrated ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Rate of new US hepatitis C infections rises threefold in the past decade, new report finds CNN (CNN) The annual rate of newly reported hepatitis C infections in the United States increased threefold from a rate of 0.3 cases per 100,000 people in 2009 to a rate of 1.2 per 100,000 people in 2018, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease ... Flag as irrelevant
	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Lots of planning, suiting up and being careful: Doctors dealing with a new world at work Pittsburgh Post-Gazette During the weeks of what she called frenzied planning for the arrival of the first COVID-19 patients, Dr. Jennifer McComb would wake up in the night, panicked. "My brain was racing, wondering if we had the right people, the right stuff," she said. Dr. McComb is ... Flag as irrelevant
	Beaumont Enterprise Kansas Health Official Emerges as Leader Amid Virus Outbreak U.S. News & World Report LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — About 20 minutes into a recent press conference, Lee Norman, the man spearheading Kansas's response to the novel coronavirus, coughed. People noticed. "Is he coughing into his hand?" one person asked on a Facebook ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post World of Warcraft experienced a pandemic in 2005. That experience may help coronavirus researchers. Washington Post World of Warcraft was a game truly ahead of its time. So much so, that its players already witnessed the effects of a pandemic more than a decade ago. Now, that pandemic may prove useful to scientists studying covid-19. On September 13, 2005, Blizzard's ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Tarana Burke, founder of #MeToo movement, details partner's 'scary' coronavirus battle USA TODAY Activist Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, is detailing her partner's "scary" battle with the coronavirus. Burke, 46, opened up about her firsthand experience with COVID-19 in a lengthy Twitter thread Thursday to inform others as the virus ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Coronavirus killed a mother and her three sons, devastating their surviving relatives Washington Post When Anthony Franklin Jr. woke up after fighting a fever in mid-March, he missed a call from his father, Anthony Franklin Sr. He returned the call, and learned that his 58-year-old dad's fever had also spiked and he was struggling to breathe in the emergency ... Flag as irrelevant
	Today.com Pregnant actress on COVID-19 symptoms: 'Feels like my head is splitting open' Today.com Broadway star Patti Murin, who is pregnant with her first child, thinks she has the coronavirus, but can't get tested. Murin, who played the role of Anna in the Broadway production of "Frozen," shared a lengthy post on Instagram on Thursday outlining her ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: 'Dedicated' GP Fayez Ayache, 76, dies BBC News A dedicated GP who "felt it was his duty to help" people has died aged 76 with coronavirus, his family said. Fayez Ayache, who worked for the NHS in Suffolk for more than 40 years, was admitted to Ipswich Hospital on 2 April and died six days later. Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Fact check: Early studies show pink eye could be related to COVID-19 but in few cases USA TODAY According to several articles shared on social media, pink eye has been found to be a symptom in some coronavirus patients. One such article by HealthDay News posted on the WebMD website has a headline that reads, " 'Pink Eye' often a symptom of ... Flag as irrelevant
	TIME Why Some Doctors Are Now Moving Away From Ventilator Treatments for Coronavirus Patients TIME (NEW YORK) — As health officials around the world push to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines when they can. The reason: Some hospitals have reported unusually high death ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Hill Scientists Want To Know Why More Men Than Women Are Apparently Dying Of COVID-19 NPR MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Men seem to be hit harder by the coronavirus than women. Around the world, it appears more men than women are dying from the virus. Now, the reason for this is not exactly clear. There are some possible explanations, and ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com Nursing home patient asked Amazon Alexa for help as she lay dying of coronavirus, sister says NBCNews.com A nursing home patient in Michigan with the coronavirus asked Alexa on an Amazon Echo device for help before she died, her sister said. LouAnn Dagen.via WOODTV. LouAnn Dagen died Saturday, shortly after she was transferred to a hospital in Grand ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape SARS-CoV-2 May Confound Seasons, Persist in Warmer Months, Report Shows Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Although conflicting, the available data indicate that SARS-CoV-2 could continue to spread in warmer spring and summer months in the US, according to ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Independent Deaths soar at Britain's care homes as COVID-19 stalks elderly Reuters LONDON, April 9 (Reuters) - Thousands of care homes across Britain were locked down last month to stop COVID-19 from spreading among their frail and elderly residents. For Jamshad Ali, 87, it came anyway. Ali and six other residents at Hawthorn Green ... Flag as irrelevant
	Newsweek Bats Harbouring Six New Types of Coronavirus, Scientists Discover, as Humans Risk Exposure Newsweek A team of researchers has identified six previously unknown viruses that belong to the same coronavirus family as the pathogen responsible for the COVID-19 disease pandemic, known as SARS-CoV-2. The scientists, led by Marc Valitutto with the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline It's Too Early to Know if Hydroxychloroquine Will Help Treat People with COVID-19 Healthline The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine is being widely promoted as a "cure" for COVID-19, but we still lack good data on its true benefits. Some small clinical trials have shown possible benefits. But others have shown the opposite. Anecdotal reports don't ... Flag as irrelevant
	Chicago Tribune Oncologists, patients weigh treatment and coronavirus risk. 'Cancer is a disease that does not wait.' Chicago Tribune As the coronavirus pandemic intensified, so did Catherine Payne's strategies for avoiding infection while undergoing chemotherapy. The 33-year-old West Town woman was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in November and began treatment soon after, ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN CDC issues new guidelines for essential workers who have been exposed to coronavirus CNN Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield issued new guidelines for essential workers who have been exposed to the coronavirus, saying individuals would need to be asymptomatic to return to work. The guidelines, he said, are ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Does COVID-19 Drug Touted by Trump Really Work? New Trial Aims to Find Out HealthDay THURSDAY, April 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A clinical trial to assess the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for adults with COVID-19 is now underway, the U.S. National Institutes of Health said Thursday. The drug, along with a similar ... Flag as irrelevant
	TIME How to Make a DIY Face Mask for Coronavirus TIME Amid a shortage of medical-grade face masks, such as surgical masks (loose-fitting, disposable masks that block large droplets but don't filter small particles) and N95 respirators (tight-fitting face coverings that filter out small particles), the U.S. federal ... Flag as irrelevant
	Tech Times Coronavirus: Bluetooth Apps Are Bad at Discovering New Cases of COVID-19, Experts Say Tech Times Imagine you've been diagnosed as COVID-19 positive. Health officials begin touch tracing to comprise infections, asking you to identify people with whom you've been in near touch. The apparent humans come to mind - your family, your coworkers, or even ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Verge To prevent the next pandemic, scientists search for animal zero The Verge The COVID-19 pandemic that's currently ravaging the world started with a simple virus in an animal. Viruses like this, which can jump from animal to human, are called zoonotic viruses. They account for 75 percent of all the emerging diseases people grapple ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD COVID May Trigger 'Cytokine Storm' in Some Cases WebMD THURSDAY, April 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 has infected over 429,000 Americans and claimed the lives of nearly 15,000 patients, with seniors clearly bearing the brunt of severe disease. But experts warn the virus is proving to be a threat to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Minnesota doctor blasts 'ridiculous' CDC coronavirus death count guidelines Fox News Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota family physician who is also a Republican state senator, told "The Ingraham Angle" Wednesday that the Centers for Disease Control ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Missouri Doctor Sharing Stories to Combat Virus Outbreak U.S. News & World Report KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — After finding that traditional medicine was oftentimes no match against the most severe cases of COVID-19, Dr. Evan Shaw explored a new strategy to help the battle against the raging pandemic. He decided to share stories. Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED The FDA Asks Companies to Stop Selling Ranitidine WIRED With its promise of taming the ravages of stomach acid, ranitidine—best known under the brand name Zantac—was counted among the agents of pharmaceutical salvation, the enduring and reliable drugs that treat intractable diseases and make daily life ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Prisons and jails across the US are turning into 'petri dishes' for coronavirus. Deputies are falling ill, too. CNN (CNN) In the US, the largest known concentration of coronavirus cases outside of hospitals isn't on a cruise ship or in a nursing home. It's at a jail in Chicago. At least 251 detainees and 150 staff members -- mostly deputies -- at Cook County Jail have tested ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Africa Tired and Sick, Spanish Nurse Ponders Coronavirus Missteps The New York Times MADRID — Auxiliary nurse Chelo Megia soldiered on through the toughest weeks of the coronavirus epidemic as it decimated elderly residents of a Spanish care home where she has worked without taking any sick days for 15 years. Finally, like so many ... Flag as irrelevant
	WBUR Scientists Try To Figure Out If Summer Will Slow The Spread Of COVID-19 WBUR The worst outbreaks of COVID-19 so far have been in colder parts of the Northern Hemisphere during winter or early spring. Will warmer weather slow the transmission? Could the Southern Hemisphere see outbreaks intensify as that part of the globe moves ... Flag as irrelevant

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