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	health Daily update ⋅ April 21, 2020
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	NPR Study Raises Questions About False Negatives From Quick COVID-19 Test NPR The fastest test being used to diagnose people infected with the coronavirus appears to be the least accurate test now in common use, according to new research obtained by NPR. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic tested 239 specimens known to contain ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR What Happens If US Reopens Too Fast? Documents Show Federal Coronavirus Projections NPR Federal health officials estimated in early April that more than 300,000 Americans could die from COVID-19 if all social distancing measures are abandoned, and later estimates pushed the possible death toll even higher, according to documents obtained by ... Flag as irrelevant
	News18 The S11 Dormitory: Inside Singapore's Biggest Coronavirus Cluster The New York Times SINGAPORE — For Habibur Rahman, the only glimpse of life outside the four walls of the cramped Singapore dormitory room he shares with 11 other migrant workers are security guards urging people to stay apart and cleaners scrubbing down communal ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Coogan's Is Closing. This Is the New York That We're Losing The New York Times One month ago, to meet the last payroll before the pandemic shut their restaurant, the three owners of Coogan's in Upper Manhattan got a beverage supplier to take back cases and kegs of beer. Their insurance company would not budge on the quarterly ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay VIDEO: Johns Hopkins Senior Lecturer Explains the Process for Creating a COVID-19 Vaccine HealthDay With the coronavirus pandemic raging on, many people are wondering why a vaccine for the virus won't be ready in the next few weeks or months. Some government officials predict a vaccine in a year to 18 months, while others say that's too soon for a safe ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times As Coronavirus Spreads, Poison Hotlines See Rise in Accidents With Cleaning Products The New York Times As awareness of the coronavirus pandemic has spread throughout the United States, doctors who monitor activity at poison call centers have noticed an alarming trend: a significant increase in accidental exposures to household cleaners and disinfectants. Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay HealthDay Reports: We've Been Here Before — Lessons from the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic HealthDay The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 could provide some insight for the present as our world currently battles with the COVID-19 pandemic. We've Been Here Before: Lessons From the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic. MONDAY, April 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times LA County reports over 1400 additional coronavirus cases amid huge backlog of tests Los Angeles Times Los Angeles County officials on Monday announced more than 1,400 additional cases of novel coronavirus, a huge number resulting from one laboratory's backlog of nearly 1,200 positive test results that were conducted between April 7 and April 14. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Nursing homes still struggle to get protective gear and quick testing CNN (CNN) Even inside nursing homes -- deemed a ground zero for the spread of coronavirus -- health care workers still don't have enough personal protective gear and the facilities can't get testing done quickly enough to effectively fight the virus. At one of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Anxiety is high because of coronavirus. Here's how you can feel better. Washington Post Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at Yale University, says her stress levels have gotten so high she is constantly trying to figure out whether her chest tightness is a symptom of covid-19 or pandemic-induced anxiety. Santos, who introduced a course on ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Small California Town Hopes Testing Will Show How Coronavirus Is Spread NPR A small town in northern California will become the first in the nation to try to test everyone for the Coronavirus, regardless of symptoms, in an effort to better understand how the virus spreads and how antibodies against the disease are built. Researchers at ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Kidney Complications in COVID-19 Send Hospitals Scrambling Medscape After the respiratory consequences of COVID-19 and resulting ventilator shortages, acute kidney injury is emerging as the next healthcare and resource issue in this pandemic. The prevalence of kidney failure in some ICUs is so high that centers are running ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape COVID-19: Testing Times for Everybody? Medscape This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello, it's Karol Sikora here, talking now about antibody testing. We at the Rutherford Cancer Centres, the network of four centres scattered around the UK, decided to test our staff for antibodies IgG [immunoglobulin G] ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com 'You may have been exposed to the virus': What to expect when a contact tracer calls you NBCNews.com From San Francisco to Massachusetts, local and state health departments across the country have begun rolling out efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus by tracing the contacts of those who have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease it causes. Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Deaths at 20-year high but peak may be over BBC News Deaths in England and Wales have nearly doubled above what would be expected, hitting a 20-year high. The Office for National Statistics said there were 18,500 deaths in the week up to 10 April - about 8,000 more than is normal at this time of year. Flag as irrelevant
	The Hindu 2 Types of Testing Look for COVID-19 Infections New and Old The New York Times WASHINGTON — Testing is critical to controlling the coronavirus and eventually easing restrictions that have halted daily life for most Americans. But there's been confusion about what kinds of tests are available and what they actually measure. There are still ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com Brooklyn nursing home ravaged by 55 deaths, most in New York during pandemic NBCNews.com "Right here, we are doing it alone," Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Donny Tuchman shouted Monday to cheering neighbors outside the Brooklyn nursing home. "These people right here," he said pointing to the line of the health care staff in full protective gear ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters The S11 dormitory: inside Singapore's biggest coronavirus cluster Reuters SINGAPORE (Reuters) - For Habibur Rahman, the only glimpse of life outside the four walls of the cramped Singapore dormitory room he shares with 11 other migrant workers are security guards urging people to stay apart and cleaners scrubbing down ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay AHA News: As African Americans Struggle With COVID-19 Disparities, Churches Step In HealthDay TUESDAY, April 21, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- The coronavirus pandemic is hitting African Americans hard, early data suggest. But Sonjia B. Dickerson doesn't need a spreadsheet to tell her that. She lost a beloved uncle to apparent ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Some anti-vaxxers are changing their minds because of the coronavirus pandemic CNN London (CNN) Never has a vaccine been so eagerly anticipated. Scientists are racing to produce a coronavirus inoculation on an unprecedented timescale, and some political leaders have warned that the restrictions on our lives may not be completely lifted ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape COVID-19: UK Experts Call for Mental Health Research Medscape Urgent, coordinated research is needed into the mental health and potential neurological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the rapid roll-out of novel treatments, say UK experts in a landmark paper. In the paper, published by Lancet Psychiatry on ... Flag as irrelevant
	Bloomberg US Confronts New Testing Dilemma: How to Figure Out Who Already Had Covid-19 Bloomberg As the U.S. begins to consider letting people go back to work and lifting social-distancing rules, a new debate over testing is emerging. Researchers are racing to back-fill the gaping holes left by shortfalls in diagnostic tests for currently infected patients, with ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News 'COVID Toes': Could skin conditions offer coronavirus clues? ABC News Months after the novel coronavirus appeared on the world stage, the deadly disease is still prompting medical mysteries, and doctors have identified another odd potential symptom: skin problems. A growing number of prominent dermatologists treating ... Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED New Covid-19 Antibody Study Results Are In. Are They Right? WIRED Last month, residents of Santa Clara County, California, stuck at home and newly reacquainted with the Facebook scroll, may have noticed an unusual proposition pop up in their feed: a targeted ad from researchers at Stanford's medical school offering blood ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Los Angeles study suggests coronavirus much more widespread Washington Post LOS ANGELES — An estimated 320,000 adults in Los Angeles County may have been infected with coronavirus, according to preliminary results of a study that suggests the illness is far more widespread than current testing shows and the death rate is much ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS Denver Coronavirus Curbs Denver's Civic Center Park 4/20 Celebration CBS Denver DENVER (CBS4) – There were plenty of police on hand, but not many others at Civic Center Park in Denver on April 20 — also known as 4/20. Thousands would typically gather at the park to smoke marijuana. "We wanted to come to the 4/20 rally. I've been ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com 'It's coming for you': Detroit 5-year-old dies of coronavirus; parents try to warn others NBCNews.com Two first responders in Detroit who lost their young daughter to the coronavirus hope their grief can be used to warn others to take the pandemic seriously. Skylar Herbert, 5, was a little girl who loved to dance and dreamed of being a pediatric dentist one day. Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Coronavirus very likely of animal origin, no sign of lab manipulation: WHO Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that all available evidence suggests the novel coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was not manipulated or produced in a laboratory. U.S. President Donald ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Children of Leeds nurse say she 'lit up a room' BBC News The family of a nurse who died after contracting coronavirus say they are "100% proud" of their mother but she should have been given better protective equipment on the front line. Josiane Ekoly, 55, lived in Leeds and worked on an NHS coronavirus ward at ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times California Researchers Test Everybody in One Town for Coronavirus The New York Times BOLINAS, Calif. — Researchers began testing an entire town in northern California for the novel coronavirus and its antibodies on Monday, one of the first such efforts since the pandemic hit the United States. Bolinas, a wealthy beach town in Marin County, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Kaiser Family Foundation The Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health and Substance Use Kaiser Family Foundation The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn have negatively affected many people's mental health and created new barriers for people already suffering from mental illness and substance use disorders. In a recent KFF poll, nearly half (45%) of ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News The coronavirus dilemma: Are we using ventilators too much? ABC News As hospitals seek innovative solutions to treat the surge of COVID-19 patients with resources running thin, expanding ventilator supply has been central to the conversation. Research has shown that only a third of patients placed on a ventilator survive the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Cemetery races to keep up as New York virus deaths mount Washington Post NEW YORK — The streets are eerily quiet. Barely a soul walks by. But when Rabbi Shmuel Plafker arrives at the cemetery, it's buzzing: Vans pulling in with bodies aboard, mounds of dirt piling up as graves are dug open, a line of white signs pressed into the ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times How Coronavirus Infected Some, but Not All, in a Restaurant The New York Times In January, at a restaurant in Guangzhou, China, one diner infected with the novel coronavirus but not yet feeling sick appeared to have spread the disease to nine other people. One of the restaurant's air-conditioners apparently blew the virus particles around ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News 'Zoomers to boomers' grocery delivery takes off to help seniors in need ABC News A group of high schoolers have spent their last few weeks out of school doing good, bringing 2,000 grocery deliveries to the elderly and immunocompromised. It all started with 17-year-old Danny Goldberg, the son of an emergency room doctor. "I was sitting ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay AHA News: As Marijuana Use Grows, Researchers Want to Know How It Affects the Heart HealthDay MONDAY, April 20, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- Although marijuana is growing in use – and becoming more legal – across the country, there is still much to learn about its effect on the body, and particularly on the heart. "We need a lot more ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Coronavirus the Musical: US Scientists Turn Virus Into Melody to Aid Research The New York Times (Reuters) - From tinkling harmonies as the virus disarms cells to clashing and stormy as it replicates, U.S. scientists have translated the novel coronavirus' spiked protein structure to music in an effort to better understand the pathogen. Professor Markus ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline People Hospitalized with COVID-19 Now Facing the Risk of Kidney Damage Healthline Doctors in New York City say people hospitalized with severe cases of COVID-19 are experiencing kidney damage. The doctors say this phenomenon is putting a strain on dialysis machines and other equipment used to treat kidney injury. They say a national ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Virus claims Michigan's youngest victim, Detroit girl, 5 Washington Post DETROIT — A 5-year-old Detroit girl is the youngest person in Michigan reported as having died from complications due to COVID-19, according to state data. Skylar Herbert died Sunday at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, north of Detroit. Skylar's mother ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay LA County Coronavirus Infections Are Up to 55 Times That of Reported Cases HealthDay TUESDAY, April 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- An early analysis of antibody testing from Los Angeles County finds a coronavirus infection rate that is up to 55 times the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. According to the researchers behind the study, the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Newsweek Coronavirus Vaccine Update as 70 Potential Treatments Being Rapidly Developed Across the Globe Newsweek At 70 least potential novel coronavirus vaccines are being developed by research teams across the globe, including in the U.S., U.K. and China, according to the latest report this month from the World Health Organization (WHO). Several pharmaceutical ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD COVID-19 May Mimic Heart Attack Signs in Some WebMD MONDAY, April 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Eighteen patients with severe COVID-19 treated at a New York City hospital showed the classic signs of a heart attack on their electrocardiograms. But a closer look at each case revealed that more than half of ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Missed Young-Onset Colon Cancers: It's Not the Guidelines' Fault MedPage Today Consistently implemented, current recommendations for family history-based screening could potentially improve the detection and prevention of early-onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC), an analysis of international cancer registries suggested. Comparing ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com In early months of pandemic, calls to poison control went up for incidents with cleaning agents NBCNews.com As coronavirus cases increase across the United States, so have calls to poison control centers for incidents related to cleaning products. A report published Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a 20 percent increase in calls ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay It Looks Like a Classic Heart Attack, But in COVID-19 Patients Other Issues May Be at Play HealthDay By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, April 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Eighteen patients with severe COVID-19 treated at a New York City hospital showed the classic signs of a heart attack on their electrocardiograms. But a closer look at each ... Flag as irrelevant
	Quartz Our sleep is linked to how we process coronavirus dread Quartz Zyma Islam noticed her sleep began to change soon after the lockdown began. Islam is in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which has been under a strict lockdown for over three weeks. All forms of public transport are suspended. That means scores of daily wage ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline Aspirin May Reduce Digestive Tract Cancer Risk — But It's Not for Everyone Healthline A new study found further evidence for the link between taking aspirin regularly and a reduced risk of colon cancer and other digestive tract cancers. Experts, however, caution that those potential benefits need to be weighed against the potential increased ... Flag as irrelevant
	Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Feud over Stanford coronavirus study: 'The authors owe us all an apology' Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Did you miss a day in Statistics class? The COVID-19 pandemic is here to help. In the wake of a startling Stanford report that suggests as many as 81,000 people could already have been infected with coronavirus in Santa Clara County, number nerds are ... Flag as irrelevant
	Yahoo News What are 'COVID toes' and why are dermatologists seeing an 'epidemic' of them in kids? Yahoo News The coronavirus has now infected more than 2.4 million people worldwide, causing a range of symptoms from fever and dry cough to the temporary loss of taste and smell. Now experts in the dermatology world are warning of a new potential sign of the virus ... Flag as irrelevant
	PEOPLE.com Virus Kills 5-Year-Old Child of Detroit Firefighter, Officer The New York Times DETROIT — A husband and wife who have jointly devoted decades to fighting crime and saving lives in Detroit lost their 5-year-old daughter to COVID-19 — Michigan's youngest victim in the coronavirus pandemic. Skylar Herbert died Sunday from ... Flag as irrelevant

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