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Anguished nurses say Pennsylvania hospital risked infecting cancer patients, babies and staff with covid-19 The nurse was pregnant — and worried. But in mid-March, early in the covid-19 crisis, a manager at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pa., assured her she would not be sent to the floor for patients infected with the deadly virus. The risks for expectant ...
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Do face masks really reduce coronavirus spread? Experts have mixed answers. For the first time, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that even seemingly healthy people wear masks over their mouths and noses when venturing out of their homes into places where it is difficult to maintain distance from ...
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Women Say They Are 'Falling Off The Cliff Of Fertility' As Pandemic Puts Treatments On Hold Tens of thousands of women across the country trying to have a baby through fertility treatments are in limbo because of COVID-19: They've had to postpone their appointments indefinitely due to coronavirus recommendations recently issued by the American ...
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Sewage analysis suggests a New England metro area with fewer than 500 COVID-19 cases may have exponentially ... Preliminary findings released this week from a new effort to track the spread of the coronavirus through sewage data suggests that one metro region in Massachusetts that's reported fewer than 500 positive tests actually may actually have exponentially more.
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Fears of 'Wild West' as COVID-19 blood tests hit the market A scientist presents an antibody test for coronavirus in a laboratory of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) at the InfectoGnostics research campus in Jena, Germany, Friday, April 3, 2020. An international team of researchers with the ...
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Fears of 'Wild West' as COVID-19 blood tests hit the market WASHINGTON -- Blood tests for the coronavirus could play a key role in deciding whether millions of Americans can safely return to work and school. But public health officials warn that the current "Wild West" of unregulated tests is creating confusion that ...
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Virus sends Holocaust survivors behind doors, back in time OAK PARK, Ill. — For Olga Weiss, the order to stay at home is about much more than simply locking her door to the coronavirus. It has awakened fears from decades ago when she and her parents hid inside for two years from Nazis hunting down Jews in ...
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Congo marks somber Easter while battling COVID-19 and Ebola BENI, Congo — Congo marked the Easter holiday by bracing to battle both COVID-19 and a continuing outbreak of Ebola, after a second death from that disease was announced in eastern Congo Sunday. Across Africa, Easter was marked at home, with many ...
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Coronavirus outbreak in Chelsea is 'life or death' crisis, official says Chelsea city leaders, who have compared the coronavirus's impact on their community to some of the hardest hit boroughs of New York City, renewed Saturday calls to state officials for help, just as a predicted surge in cases began to reach hospitals in ...
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The Real Reason Veterinarians Gave a Tiger a Covid-19 Test Nadia had a cough. A dry cough, to be specific, and it wasn't just her. The 4-year-old Malayan tiger lives in an exhibit in the Bronx Zoo with her sister, Azul, who had also started coughing at the end of March. Altogether, seven of the zoo's big cats appeared ill, ...
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How the Hunt for a Coronavirus Vaccine Could Go Horribly Wrong Scientists are racing to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, and anti-vaxxers are waiting in the wings. COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, is killing hundreds of Americans every day. So it was reason for optimism on Monday when Inovio ...
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An ICU doctor faces stress of a cancer diagnosis while treating covid-19 patients. I am an ICU doctor. I manage ventilators and care for the critically ill. In the middle of this global pandemic, my city, Chicago, is preparing for a surge of patients requiring intensive care. But I am nowhere near a hospital. I am home with my family. I am on the ...
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Medical Experts Blast Calif. Coronavirus Herd Immunity Theory A Stanford Hoover fellow believes Californians developed herd immunity from early COVID-19 exposure. Medical experts aren't buying it. By Gideon Rubin, Patch Staff. Apr 11, 2020 1:49 pm PT. Reply. 0. Hanson's herd immunity theory has however been ...
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Coronavirus local updates: Health officials report 2nd COVID-19 related death in Stanly Co. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — More than 1.6 million people worldwide -- including more than 466,000 people in the United States – have been infected with the new coronavirus, and the number of deaths from the outbreak continues to rise.
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Death toll rises as coronavirus sweeps through Michigan nursing homes Coronavirus cases have swept through nursing homes across Michigan, putting the state's most vulnerable at risk at a time when elderly residents are isolated from family under rules intended to keep them safe. There have been hundreds of confirmed ...
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Nurse at Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley dies of COVID-19 A nurse at Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley in Littleton has died, the facility announced Saturday, a grim development in the fight against COVID-19 in Massachusetts long-term care facilities where patient deaths now account for nearly 45 percent of all 686 ...
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More than 2200 have died of coronavirus inside nursing homes but feds aren't tracking the numbers: report Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A new tally shows 2,246 people have died inside nursing home deaths from the coronavirus in at least 24 states. The numbers were compiled by NBC News, which ...
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If test says you have coronavirus, believe it. If it's negative, don't be so sure Dr. Anthony Fauci, the national infectious disease expert, says we simply can't know how many Americans have COVID-19 until more of us are tested. But the scarcity of test kits may not be the only reason for the undercount. The testing itself, doctors and ...
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Updated: 240 infected, 5 dead from the coronavirus at state-run psychiatric hospitals The number of people who work or live at the four state-run psychiatric hospitals and tested positive for the coronavirus tripled this week, with 240 cases and five fatalities, according to data the state Department of Health released Saturday. On Tuesday ...
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Stanford Scientists Create COVID-19 Antibody Test Which Could Help Alleviate Shelter-in-Place Orders Scientists in the U.S. have created an antibody test which they say can reveal whether a person has been infected with the new coronavirus. Created by a team at Stanford Medicine, the test can detect antibodies which the immune system creates to attack ...
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Californians Mostly Staying Home for Easter Amid Virus By DAISY NGUYEN and DON THOMPSON, Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Easter egg hunts are out but drive-in religious services may be in as Californians celebrated the holiday weekend mostly by abiding by stay-at-home orders due to the ...
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US now has more coronavirus deaths than any other country, but the worst of epidemic may not be far off The United States has passed Italy to become the country with the most coronavirus deaths. However, as a proportion of the total population in the U.S., virus deaths remain at about one-sixth of those in hard-hit Italy or Spain. More than 19,700 people in the ...
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People who lost their sense of smell weeks ago still waiting for it to return "I woke up and couldn't taste or smell anything. It was the most acute thing I've ever experienced," says Londoner Holly Bourne. Bourne has not had the widely recognized coronavirus symptoms — a cough or high fever — and therefore is not eligible to be ...
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Could the New Coronavirus Weaken 'Anti-Vaxxers'? LISBON (Reuters) - An American mother-of-three is a long-time member of "anti-vaxxer" groups online: a small but vocal global community that believes vaccines are a dangerous con and refuse to immunize themselves or their children. But COVID-19 is ...
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Researchers studying a variety of COVID-19 treatments in the pipeline The puzzle continues over whether much-ballyhooed drugs actually work against COVID-19, including hydroxychloroquine that President Donald Trump has lauded and, eventually, remdesivir, which has shown success against other RNA viruses. But recent ...
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Coronavirus infects nearly 1200 hospital staffers on Long Island: report Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The coronavirus has infected a staggering number of hospital staffers on Long Island, according to a report Saturday. That number totals 1,175 at 13 hospitals in ...
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New signs suggest coronavirus was in California far earlier than anyone knew A man found dead in his house in early March. A woman who fell sick in mid-February and later died. These early COVID-19 deaths in the San Francisco Bay Area suggest that the novel coronavirus had established itself in the community long before health ...
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Oncologist: For many patients and their manhood, the cure seems worse than the disease. As an oncologist who specializes in prostate cancer, my treatments often work extremely well. Most of my patients have lived for years, even decades, after their diagnosis. They often die of something other than their cancer. But my treatments often have a ...
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Clinical Trial Explores Azithromycin, Hydroxychloroquine Combo as COVID-19 Treatment Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has announced that they will be offering a clinical trial exploring whether azithromycin (Zithromax) combined with hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) is better than hydroxychloroquine alone as a potential treatment for ...
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Industry scrambles to stop fatal bird flu in South Carolina DES MOINES, Ia. — An infectious and fatal strain of bird flu has been confirmed in a commercial turkey flock in South Carolina, the first case of the more serious strain of the disease in the United States since 2017 and a worrisome development for an industry ...
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How coronavirus testing will be used to reopen society Soon, Americans may be able to drive into a pharmacy parking lot and, without a doctor's order or delay, get swabbed for the novel coronavirus and receive their diagnosis within minutes. If they test positive, they'll self-quarantine immediately, as will the circle ...
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Treatment of COVID-19 patients at Texas City nursing home draws ethical questions TEXAS CITY — When Larry Edrozo got a phone call from his mother's nursing home in Texas City telling him she was being treated for the novel coronavirus with an unproven pharmaceutical drug, he had two questions: why was she getting the drug if she ...
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Colorado scientists pivot to join worldwide pursuit of coronavirus vaccine Research already underway in Colorado when the coronavirus began its brutal march across the globe may provide a head start in finding a vaccine for the virus. Scientists at Colorado State University who were investigating the human rotavirus, feline ...
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Politics mixes with science as states turn to virus models By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN. State leaders are relying on a hodgepodge of statistical models with wide-ranging numbers to guide their paths through the deadly coronavirus emergency and make critical decisions, such as shutting down businesses and filling ...
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Young infected doctors at Mexico public hospital demand help MEXICO CITY – Interns and resident doctors at a public hospital on the outskirts of Mexico's capital say that 26 of them have tested positive for the COVID-19 disease and request personal protective equipment and better training for all of the hospital's staff.
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US to Trial Japanese Anti-Flu Drug Avigan for Potential Coronavirus Treatment Avigan, the Japanese anti-viral drug being tested in Japan and China for its potential use as a treatment for the novel coronavirus, will also begin its first U.S. clinical trials in Massachusetts, the drug's manufacturer, Fujifilm Corporation, announced. Avigan ...
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Coronavirus can travel up to 13 feet: study Further studies of air samples in hospitals wards treating COVID-19 patients uncovered that the virus could travel up to 13 feet, more than twice the distance current social distancing guidelines mandate. The investigation was conducted by Chinese ...
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Coronavirus cases plateau in Oregon, drop not expected for six weeks, new estimates show Aggressive social distancing restrictions have helped Oregon avert thousands of new cases of coronavirus and hundreds of additional hospitalizations and should continue for at least six more weeks to prevent a resurgence of the epidemic, according to the ...
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A coronavirus vaccine that wouldn't require a shot Louis Falo, University of Pittsburgh. As labs around the world race to develop a vaccine, my colleagues and I are trying to find a better way to deliver it than the standard, cringe-inducing shot. I am an immunologist and dermatologist, and my colleagues and I ...
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How did society emerge after 1918 Spanish flu pandemic? And what can we learn about reopening Ohio after ... CLEVELAND, Ohio — As Ohio contemplates opening back up business and daily life after the coronavirus crisis, you may wonder how we handled life after a pandemic a century ago. During the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, cities closed churches, ...
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RivCo Confirms 81 New Coronavirus Cases, 2 More Deaths Riverside County has 1,431 confirmed coronavirus cases and 41 deaths. If distancing continues, infections could soon slow, officials said. By City News Service, News Partner. Apr 11, 2020 3:49 pm PT ...
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8 Dead In Coronavirus Outbreak At Juniper Village Of Aurora Nursing Home AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – Colorado health officials said on Saturday that multiple people are dead after an extensive outbreak of coronavirus inside a nursing home in Aurora. The coroner confirmed that five people at Juniper Village of Aurora died from ...
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Accuracy of COVID-19 tests coming to market uncertain U.S. regulators have opened the floodgates for millions of COVID-19 test kits to be used on Americans in coming months, but there is little evidence yet that the tests work well and no evidence that one works better than another. Tests that deliver false results ...
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Virus sends Holocaust survivors behind doors, back in time For Olga Weiss, the order to stay at home is about much more than simply locking her door to the coronavirus. It has awakened fears from decades ago when she and her parents hid inside for two years from Nazis hunting down Jews in Belgium. "It is almost ...
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As many as eight COVID-19 deaths at Aurora assisted-living facility as statewide deaths reach 274 As many as eight residents have died of COVID-19, and 49 others living or working at an Aurora assisted-living facility have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, prompting the state to launch an investigation into what prompted the severe outbreak.
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Coronavirus Pandemic Brings Hundreds Of US Clinical Trials To A Halt By Sydney Lupkin | NPR Saturday, April 11, 2020. A phlebotomist draws blood from a patient participating in a clinical trial for a cancer treatment. With hospitals focused on COVID-19, hundreds of studies are being put on hold. Jim West / Science Source.
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This new test from Minnesota health officials will tell us more about the coronavirus and how to fight it. Minnesota health officials are confident emerging blood tests for antibodies that attack the coronavirus will provide much needed new information about COVID-19 and how best to fight it. These so-called serological tests screen blood samples for the ...
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Coronavirus: 8 Deaths, 49 Cases At Aurora Nursing Home AURORA, CO — At least 49 cases of the new coronavirus have been confirmed after an outbreak at a nursing home in Aurora, state health officials said. The Colorado Department of Public Health is working with the Tri-County Health Department to ...
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Are seniors in nursing homes particularly vulnerable to COVID-19? Seniors are particularly at risk from COVID-19, and a recent rash of cases and deaths in Pennsylvania nursing homes has grimly underlined this fact. In Allegheny County, all coronavirus-related deaths to date have been in adults age 65 or older, although that ...
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Coronavirus: Velindre cancer carer dies with Covid-19 A healthcare worker at a cancer hospital in Cardiff has died after contracting coronavirus, Velindre University NHS Trust has confirmed. Donna Campbell, a support worker at Velindre Hospital in Whitchurch, died at University Hospital of Wales on Friday with ...
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