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	health Daily update ⋅ April 15, 2020
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	NPR Where Did The Coronavirus Originate? Virus Hunters Find Genetic Clues In Bats NPR Dr. Linfa Wang, a virologist at the Duke-National University of Singapore, has been working around the clock to help Singapore fight this coronavirus. He hasn't hugged his daughter in over two months. "We're in a war zone right now. Everything comes to me ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Antibody Tests For Coronavirus Can Miss The Mark NPR Dozens of blood tests are rapidly coming on the market to identify people who have been exposed to the coronavirus by checking for antibodies against it. The Food and Drug Administration doesn't regulate these kinds of tests, but even those that meet the ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Coronavirus Outbreak at Virginia Nursing Home Spirals Out of Control as 45 Die The New York Times Even before a single resident tested positive for the coronavirus at a nursing home in Richmond, Va., staff members were worried. Triple rooms were not uncommon. Supplies were hard to come by. And there were not enough nurses for all the aging patients ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times For Runners, Is 15 Feet the New 6 Feet for Social Distancing? The New York Times It may be a good idea to give one another more than six feet of space while exercising outside during the current coronavirus pandemic, according to a compelling new study that looked at how air flows around bodies in motion. The study has not yet been ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Stray dogs and coronavirus: Just a hypothetical theory with no proof CNN (CNN) You're about to hear in the news that stray, feral dogs could be responsible for passing the deadly novel coronavirus to humans. Don't believe it. Coronavirus symptoms: 10 key indicators and what to do. It's a theory, a hypothesis, based on a computer ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay HealthDay Reports: Once You've Had COVID-19 and Recovered, Are You Immune from Coronavirus? HealthDay "Am I immune from coronavirus?" is a common question people might have if they've had COVID-19 and recovered. See what experts have to say about the possibility of gaining coronavirus immunity. Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay VIDEO: Can COVID-19 Be Transmitted to Your Pet? HealthDay Top vets share important information about coronavirus and your pets. Play Video. Play. Mute. Current Time 0:00. /. Duration Time 0:00. Loaded: 0%. Progress: 0%. Stream TypeLIVE. Remaining Time -0:00. Playback Rate. 1. Chapters. Chapters. descriptions ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay HealthDay Reports: How 4 US Cities Helped Slow Coronavirus Spread HealthDay A new study looks at how four cities — New York City, New Orleans, San Francisco and Seattle — worked to slow the spread of COVID-19 in their major metropolitan areas. How 4 U.S. Cities Helped Slow Coronavirus Spread. TUESDAY, April 14, 2020 ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay HealthDay Reports: Annual 'COVID-19 Season' May Be Here to Stay, Scientists Predict HealthDay Experts are predicting that COVID-19 will most likely be around for years to come. Here's what you should know about their prediction. Annual 'COVID-19 Season' May Be Here to Stay, Scientists Predict. TUESDAY, April 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Duke University Developed a Protective Respirator for Doctors to Wear When Treating COVID-19 Patients HealthDay Image courtesy of Duke University. A medical and engineering task force at Duke University has designed and created a protective respirator using 3D printing to help protect doctors when they're treating patients who are thought to have COVID-19. Flag as irrelevant
	TIME Vaccines, Antibodies and Drug Libraries. The Possible COVID-19 Treatments Researchers Are Excited About TIME In early April, about four months after a new, highly infectious coronavirus was first identified in China, an international group of scientists reported encouraging results from a study of an experimental drug for treating the viral disease known as COVID-19. Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay New Clinical Trial Will Evaluate an Antidepressant as a Potential COVID-19 Treatment HealthDay A new clinical trial from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will look at the antidepressant fluvoxamine to see if the drug can be used as a potential treatment for COVID-19, according to a press release. Fluvoxamine is an antidepressant ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR At Least 9000 US Health Care Workers Sickened With COVID-19, CDC Data Shows NPR Nearly 9,300 U.S. health care workers contracted COVID-19, and 27 have died. A majority of those who tested positive (55%) think they were exposed while at work. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released preliminary data on infections ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay HealthDay Reports: Medical Masks May Be Sufficient During COVID-19 Routine Care HealthDay In a meta-analysis, compared with N95s, medical masks did not increase risk for viral infection for routine care use. Medical Masks May Be Sufficient During COVID-19 Routine Care. TUESDAY, April 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Use of medical masks, such ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Coronavirus, diabetes, obesity and other underlying conditions: Which patients are most at risk? USA TODAY Though people of all ages are affected by coronavirus, many of those who develop severe complications after contracting it have preexisting medical conditions. According to a CDC report, nearly 90% of adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the US ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Life in Jail, Made Worse During COVID-19 Medscape Jails provide ideal conditions for the spread of COVID-19, as made clear by the distressing stories coming out of New York City. Beyond the very substantial risks posed by the virus itself, practitioners tasked with attending to the large proportion of inmates with ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay UCLA Joins Nationwide Coalition to Study Potential COVID-19 Plasma Therapy Treatment HealthDay The University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) along with more than 50 institutions across the country, is participating in the National COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project to determine whether plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Annual 'COVID-19 Season' May Be Here to Stay, Scientists Predict U.S. News & World Report By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, April 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 is likely to be around for years to come, haunting humans as either a yearly flu-like illness or as a virus that occasionally resurfaces following ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN 'Such a simple thing to do': Why positioning Covid-19 patients on their stomachs can save lives CNN (CNN) On Friday, Dr. Mangala Narasimhan received an urgent call. A man in his 40s with Covid-19 was in a dire situation, and her colleague wanted her to come the intensive care unit at Long Island Jewish Hospital to see if he needed to be put on life ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News The woman who discovered the first coronavirus BBC News The woman who discovered the first human coronavirus was the daughter of a Scottish bus driver who left school at 16. June Almeida went on to become a pioneer of virus imaging, whose work has come roaring back into focus during the present pandemic. Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Does Widespread Disinfecting Kill the Coronavirus? It's Under Debate The New York Times The images are compelling: Fire trucks in Tehran or Manila spray the streets. Amazon tests a disinfectant fog inside a warehouse, hoping to calm workers' fears and get them back on the job. TV commercials show health care workers cleaning chairs where ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report The Coronavirus Has Left Pediatric Practices Struggling for Survival U.S. News & World Report By Jenny Gold. BERKELEY, Calif. — The silence was striking. On a normal day, the well-child waiting room at Berkeley Pediatrics bustles with children playing, infants crying and teenagers furiously tapping on their smartphones. On a recent Monday, the ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY First Arizona patient on ventilator survives COVID-19 with rare blood treatment USA TODAY PHOENIX — A Phoenix man is the first in Arizona to survive COVID-19 through a rare form of treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy. Enes Dedic, 53, was on the brink of death with a ventilator until his doctors at HonorHealth ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Coronavirus immunity remains big question mark for a country eager to reopen Washington Post It's one of the biggest unknowns about the novel coronavirus, one that determines what comes next for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have endured covid-19 and now appear to be fully recovered. Are they immune? Can they resume normal life ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN US may have to endure social distancing until 2022 if no vaccine is quickly found, scientists predict CNN (CNN) This may be the new normal for quite a while. The US may have to endure social distancing measures -- such as stay-at-home orders and school closures -- until 2022, researchers projected on Tuesday. That is, unless, a vaccine becomes quickly ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News No evidence yet for effective COVID-19 treatments, review shows ABC News Although would-be COVID-19 therapies like the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and the failed Ebola drug remdesivir have drummed up excitement as potentially life-saving treatments, a comprehensive review of available data finds that it's still too early to ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com A desperate scramble as COVID-19 families vie for access to plasma therapy NBCNews.com Stephen Garcia's family is frantic. The auto body worker, just 32 years old, has been on a ventilator in a Los Angeles-area hospital for nearly two weeks, gravely ill with COVID-19, unresponsive — and unaware of the battle they're waging on his behalf. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN FAA bars active pilots from taking chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to prevent coronavirus CNN (CNN) Pilots are prohibited within two days of flying from experimenting with two yet unproven medications to prevent coronavirus infection, the Federal Aviation Administration has determined. "Use of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine to prevent coronavirus ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Search for a COVID-19 vaccine heats up in China, US Washington Post WASHINGTON — Three potential COVID-19 vaccines are making fast progress in early-stage testing in volunteers in China and the U.S., but it's still a long road to prove if they'll really work. China's CanSino Biologics has begun the second phase of testing its ... Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED What if Covid-19 Returns Every Year, Like the Common Cold? WIRED The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to its close genetic cousin SARS-CoV-1. And for good reason: The virus responsible for the early 2000s SARS outbreak is, in many ways, the closest parallel to what we're dealing with now. Researchers ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay California's Wildfires May Have Fueled Cardiac Arrests HealthDay By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, April 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The deadly consequences of wildfires may stretch beyond the people directly in harm's way. Smoke-polluted air may also fuel a spike in cardiac arrests, a new U.S. ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Renowned disease expert charged with killing boyfriend wants release from jail to research COVID-19 USA TODAY CHICAGO – A former Northwestern University professor charged in the murder of his boyfriend was rebuffed by a judge after asking to be released from jail so his research skills can be used to battle COVID-19. Wyndham Lathem asked last week to be freed ... Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com Massachusetts Recruits 1000 'Contact Tracers' To Battle Coronavirus Patch.com Local public health workers across the U.S. are already using this strategy with COVID-19 — a few cases at a time. By Kaiser Health News, News Partner. Apr 15, 2020 10:51 am ET. Reply. 0. Massachusetts is launching an effort to reach everyone in the state ... Flag as irrelevant
	New York Post Respiratory therapist with coronavirus gives birth to a daughter while in a medically induced coma CNN (CNN) Angela Primachenko was 27 years old, 34 weeks pregnant, and days into a fight against the coronavirus when she made the decision, with the advice of her doctors, to go into a medically induced coma. When she woke up, her belly was flat and her ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com New study suggests COVID-19 hopped from dogs to humans. Here's why you should be skeptical. Livescience.com The novel coronavirus likely originated in bats, but the pathogen may have then hopped into dogs before infecting humans, a new study suggests. But not everyone agrees with that hypothesis. One expert told Live Science that "there are a lot of weaknesses" ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report CDC Says More Than 9000 Health Care Workers Have Contracted Coronavirus The New York Times The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Tuesday that 9,282 health care professionals had contracted the coronavirus in the United States as of April 9 and that 27 had died from it. The agency cautioned that the numbers were most likely ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Obesity Ups Odds for Severe COVID-19 in Younger Patients HealthDay By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, April 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- It's clear that age and chronic disease make bouts of the pandemic coronavirus more severe -- and even deadly -- but obesity might also put even younger people at ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters CDC director says 19-20 US states may be ready to reopen May 1 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday he believes 19 or 20 U.S. states have had limited impact from the new coronavirus and their governors believe they may be ready to reopen ... Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com Daily Metro Coronavirus Update For April 14 Patch.com Press release from the City of Nashville: April 14 2020. Mayor John Cooper's office issued the following announcements regarding Metro's citywide coronavirus (COVID-19) monitoring and response efforts in coordination with area hospitals, healthcare ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report More Than 30 Have COVID-19 at Psychiatric Hospital U.S. News & World Report SEATTLE (AP) — The number of staff at a Washington state psychiatric hospital who have tested positive for the new coronavirus increased in April, but only two patients have been tested this month, despite recommendations from health officials. At least 27 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Explainer: What is contact tracing and how can it help fight the new coronavirus? Reuters (Reuters) - Contact tracing has been used for decades to control the spread of infectious diseases. The basic idea is simple: track down infected people, then find everyone who has been near them and encourage those people to stay home until it is clear ... Flag as irrelevant
	Today.com What it's like to be injected with an experimental COVID-19 vaccine Today.com "It's absolutely critical that people in good health step up and voluntarily participate in these clinical trials," he says. Ian Haydon will be monitored over the next 14 months.Courtesy Ian Haydon. Get the latest from TODAY. Sign up for our newsletter. Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: One in five deaths now linked to virus BBC News More than one in five deaths in England and Wales is linked to coronavirus, figures show. The Office for National Statistics data showed the virus was mentioned on 3,475 death certificates in the week ending 3 April. It helped push the total number of deaths in ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: 41 more deaths in Ireland bring total to 406 BBC News Forty-one more people have died with coronavirus in the Republic of Ireland, bringing the total to 406. The total number of confirmed cases has risen to 11,479, according to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre. Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Orange County records 23 additional coronavirus cases; lower increases make officials 'cautiously optimistic' Los Angeles Times Known cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Orange County increased by 23 on Tuesday, with no new deaths reported, the county Health Care Agency said. The update came a day after the county said cases increased by only nine on Monday, the lowest ... Flag as irrelevant
	FierceBiotech Massachusetts recruits 1000 'contact tracers' to battle COVID-19 FierceBiotech Many of the thousands of Massachusetts residents who will receive calls won't know that they may have been exposed to the coronavirus. (Getty Images). Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Print. Massachusetts is launching an effort to reach everyone in ... Flag as irrelevant
	TIME To End this Pandemic We'll Need a Free Vaccine Worldwide TIME Until we end COVID-19 transmission across the planet, we are likely to keep getting multiple COVID-19 "waves"— that is, rolling, recurrent outbreaks. While no public health expert has a foolproof crystal ball, this scenario of repeated waves means that the ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Annual 'COVID-19 Season' May Be Here to Stay, Scientists Predict HealthDay By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, April 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 is likely to be around for years to come, haunting humans as either a yearly flu-like illness or as a virus that occasionally resurfaces following years of ... Flag as irrelevant
	ModernHealthcare.com COVID-19 distancing drives a halt in measles vaccinations ModernHealthcare.com As hospitals and clinics across the country limit "non-essential" healthcare services to stem the spread of the coronavirus, experts worry that the postponement of routine immunizations could lead to an outbreak of vaccine-preventable diseases after social ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Hydroxychloroquine does not clear coronavirus, but can alleviate symptoms, study says Fox News Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A study of COVID-19 patients in China who received hydroxychloroquine showed the anti-malarial drug did not clear the patients of the virus. "The overall 28-day ... Flag as irrelevant

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