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	health Daily update ⋅ April 24, 2020
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	Washington Post Trump comments prompt doctors, and Lysol, to warn against injecting disinfectants Washington Post After a presentation Thursday that touched on the disinfectants that can kill the novel coronavirus on surfaces and in the air, President Trump pondered whether those chemicals could be used to fight the virus inside the human body. "I see the disinfectant that ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Trump Asks if Sunlight Can Kill Viruses. 'Not as a Treatment,' Birx Says. The New York Times President Trump has long pinned his hopes on the powers of sunlight to defeat the Covid-19 virus. On Thursday, he returned to that theme at the daily White House coronavirus briefing, bringing in a top administration scientist to back up his assertions and ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times 1 in 5 New Yorkers May Have Had Covid-19, Antibody Tests Suggest The New York Times One of every five New York City residents tested positive for antibodies to the coronavirus, according to preliminary results described by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday that suggested that the virus had spread far more widely than known. If the pattern ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Why The Warning That Coronavirus Was On The Move In US Cities Came So Late NPR In early February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was looking for ways to stop the novel coronavirus before it got out of control in the United States. The agency selected six cities for sentinel surveillance — a sort of early warning system to ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times What Is Convalescent Plasma, and Why Do We Care About It? The New York Times A medical procedure doctors have used to treat novel diseases for a century has emerged as a focal point in the fight against Covid-19: convalescent plasma. Conva-what-now…? Convalescent plasma is the term used for plasma that is removed from the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape The Great Invader: How COVID-19 Attacks Every Organ Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. We have underestimated and misunderstood COVID-19 since it first appeared. And as we learn more, it's clear that COVID-19 can be more than just a ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN All your questions about how to wear a face mask -- answered CNN (CNN) Face masks can be unexpectedly complicated, especially for those who are new to wearing them. Navigating which ones you should buy and understanding who they protect, figuring out if you can reuse them and how to get your little ones to wear ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Angiotensin Drugs and COVID-19: More Reassuring Data Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Initial data from one Chinese center on the use of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) in patients ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times CDC Stresses Need for Coronavirus Testing at Homeless Shelters The New York Times According to a new study of homeless shelters in four major American cities, it is crucial to broadly test residents and staff for the coronavirus at the detection of the first case — or sooner — and to isolate those who test positive in order to prevent a wide spread ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Nearly All Patients Hospitalized With Covid-19 Had Chronic Health Issues, Study Finds The New York Times A new study of thousands of hospitalized coronavirus patients in the New York City area, the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States, has found that nearly all of them had at least one major chronic health condition, and most — 88 percent — had at least ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD The Great Invader: How COVID Attacks Every Organ WebMD April 23, 2020 -- We have underestimated and misunderstood COVID-19 since it first appeared. And as we learn more, it's clear that COVID-19 can be more than just a respiratory disease. It's joined the ranks of other "great imitators" -- diseases that can look ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post After beating covid-19 at her own hospital, this ER nurse wants to get back to treating coronavirus patients Washington Post When Debbie Buonopane was infected with the novel coronavirus earlier this month, the emergency room nurse relayed to her family that she didn't think she would last long. A Navy veteran and breast cancer survivor, Buonopane had been treating ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com SARS-CoV-2 may be exploiting our immune system's 'first responder' cells Livescience.com The new coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, may be using part of the human body's own immune response against us, a new study suggests. The novel coronavirus is known to use a keyhole called the ACE2 receptor to "unlock" a cell and get inside, where ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape COVID-19: Home Pulse Oximetry Could Be Game Changer, Says ER Doc Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Clinicians have been fighting COVID-19 wrong, says an emergency medicine physician who has been on the front line of the COVID-19 surge in New ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Cristina Cuomo says she treated her coronavirus with Clorox baths, vitamin drips: Experts react USA TODAY Experts are warning the public about alternative remedies Cristina Cuomo says she and her family used during their fight against the novel coronavirus. The Cuomo family has been hit hard by COVID-19, which first struck CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, then ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times The anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown movements are converging, refusing to be 'enslaved' Los Angeles Times While most of the world hungers for a vaccine to put an end to the death and economic destruction wrought by COVID-19, some anti-vaccine groups are joining with anti-lockdown demonstrators to challenge restrictions aimed at protecting public health. Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape COVID-19 Daily: VA Hydroxychloroquine Study, Relief Funds Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Here are the coronavirus stories Medscape's editors around the globe think you need to know about today: VA Hydroxychloroquine Study. Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post A 100-year-old WWII veteran dies of the coronavirus a century after the flu pandemic killed his twin Washington Post Before Philip Kahn died of coronavirus on April 17 at 100 years old, he kept thinking about his twin brother, Samuel. When he told his life story to his grandchildren, friends and neighbors, it always began with Samuel, and now it seemed to be ending that way, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post State, local health departments get $631 million to jump-start coronavirus testing, contact tracing Washington Post The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that it is sending $631 million to state and local health departments to increase their capacity to do contact tracing and testing for the novel coronavirus — a fraction of what many officials ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Nursing Homes Ask States For Immunity From Civil Suits Amid COVID-19 NPR The people most vulnerable to the coronavirus are older adults with underlying health conditions. And that perfectly describes the residents of nursing homes. There are no authoritative numbers on fatalities, but estimates are in the thousands. A report by The ... Flag as irrelevant
	Seattle Times Fight Against Malaria Could Be Set Back 20 Years, WHO Warns The New York Times CAPE TOWN, South Africa — One of the hard lessons the World Health Organization learned during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was this: Other diseases can be forgotten and take a deadlier toll. The WHO is now warning that the battle against malaria ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: First patients injected in UK vaccine trial BBC News The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected, the first of more than 800 people recruited for the study. Half will receive the Covid-19 vaccine, and half a control vaccine which protects against ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Outcry after Trump suggests injecting disinfectant as treatment BBC News US President Donald Trump has been lambasted by the medical community after suggesting research into whether coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into the body. He also appeared to propose irradiating patients' bodies with UV light, ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: 'It's heartbreaking I can't visit wife's grave' BBC News "You're not going there for enjoyment, you're going there to gain strength, or to remember a loved one." Malachy O'Donnell, 73, from Cardiff lost his wife, Lynette, after a very short illness six years ago. But he has not been allowed to visit her grave as Cardiff is ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Researchers found coronavirus in a patient's eyes — days after it left her nose Washington Post Italy's first coronavirus patient traveled from Wuhan, China, to Italy in late January and was admitted to the hospital with coronavirus symptoms days later. A recently published report shows that she had detectable traces of the virus in her eyes days after it had ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Cells most vulnerable to coronavirus are in lungs, nose, intestines: study Fox News Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Cells in the lungs, intestines and nasal passages were identified in a recent study as those most susceptible to the coronavirus. Researchers hope the findings can ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Hill Controversial idea to speed coronavirus vaccine gains ground The Hill An idea that might seem outlandish at first is gaining some ground as a way to speed development of a coronavirus vaccine: intentionally infecting people with the virus as part of a trial. The idea, known as a "challenge trial," would deliberately infect a few ... Flag as irrelevant
	Bloomberg Trump's Idea to Inject Disinfectant to Kill Coronavirus Alarms Medical Experts Bloomberg President Donald Trump returned to the lectern Thursday after a government scientist's presentation about studies showing that sunlight, humidity and disinfectants kill the coronavirus on surfaces -- in some cases within seconds. What Trump suggested next ... Flag as irrelevant
	Wall Street Journal Facts and Myths About Coronavirus Antibody Tests Wall Street Journal Everyone has their hopes pinned on antibody or serology tests—blood tests designed to detect who was previously infected with the new coronavirus and has developed antibodies to it. Businesses and governments hope the tests can help slowly open up ... Flag as irrelevant
	Newsweek Scientist Behind Sweden's Coronavirus Strategy Says Country Better Prepared For Second Wave Due to Not Having ... Newsweek The novel coronavirus in Sweden has spread to over 17,500 people and killed more than 2,100, as of Friday, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. While cases continue to grow, the country has taken the surprising route of not ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters On next COVID-19 front line, New York nurse tends to discharged patients at home Reuters (Reuters) - Nurse Flora Ajayi parks her car on a residential block in Queens, New York and pops open the trunk, revealing plastic bins full of personal protective gear. She dons gloves, a blue gown, two masks, a face shield and shoe covers and turns to enter ... Flag as irrelevant
	Science Magazine Crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 main protease provides a basis for design of improved α-ketoamide inhibitors Science Magazine Scientists across the world are working to understand severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Zhang et al. determined the x-ray crystal structure of a key protein in the virus' ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Fear, Masks and Learning From Others Amid COVID-19 U.S. News & World Report A man who had been rushed to our hospital after a fall gurgled as we laid him on the table. "I can't breathe," he gasped, and we inserted a breathing tube into his throat. Afterward, I called his wife to update her and to ask if he had recently had any fever, cough ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report In Seattle, Nursing Homes Get Tests - Even Without Cases U.S. News & World Report By GENE JOHNSON and TED S. WARREN, Associated Press. SEATTLE (AP) — Pairs of doctors and nurses in plastic gowns and purple gloves moved down the nursing home's halls in a tandem ballet. Test kit hand-off, nasal swab, specimen bag drop. Flag as irrelevant
	Bloomberg Life After Ventilators Can Be Hell for Coronavirus Survivors Bloomberg Some never fully recover, and those who do often must relearn basic skills such as walking and swallowing. By. Michelle Fay Cortez. and. Olivia Carville. April 24, 2020, 4:00 AM PDT. Life After Ventilators Can Be Hell for Coronavirus Survivors. Some never ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN US health officials said months ago risk to the public was low. But coronavirus was already spreading CNN (CNN) New research and two February deaths confirmed as virus-related add to evidence that the coronavirus was spreading in the US much earlier than experts initially thought. The developments suggest many more people have been infected than official ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Federal prison system expands virus testing to find hidden asymptomatic infections USA TODAY WASHINGTON – The federal prison system, confronted with mounting infections and deaths attributed to the coronavirus, is expanding testing to seek out previously hidden asymptomatic inmates in an attempt to control the spread. The Bureau of Prisons, the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Economic Times Britain Launches COVID-19 Vaccine Study, Latest in Race The New York Times Testing of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine began in healthy volunteers in Britain Thursday, the latest in a cluster of early-stage studies in search of protection against the coronavirus. University of Oxford researchers gave injections to volunteers in a study ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS News Researchers Study Why Men Seem To Be More Affected By COVID-19 NPR NPR's David Greene speaks with Sarah Hawkes, professor of global public health at University College London, about her research into why more men are dying from the coronavirus than women. DAVID GREENE, HOST: Around the world, COVID-19 seems ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Study Confirms Safety, Effectiveness of Children's Vaccines HealthDay THURSDAY, April 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox) are highly effective and do not cause autism, say researchers who reviewed 138 studies that included 23 million children. "In terms of safety, we ... Flag as irrelevant
	Daily Beast Lab Workers: Abbott's Fast Coronavirus Test Could Make Us Sick Daily Beast By Rachana Pradhan | Kaiser Health News. Lab personnel say worries are mounting over the safety of a rapid coronavirus test by Abbott Laboratories that President Donald Trump has repeatedly lauded—particularly, the risk of infection to those handling it. Flag as irrelevant
	Today.com Couples struggling with infertility are stuck in limbo during COVID-19 Today.com The coronavirus pandemic is putting many infertility treatments on hold, but couples are not giving up hope. Get the latest from TODAY. Sign up for our newsletter. SUBSCRIBE. April 24, 2020, 6:22 AM PDT / Source: TODAY. By Terri Peters. The coronavirus ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Two Pet Cats in New York Test Positive for COVID-19 HealthDay Two pet cats in New York state have tested positive for COVID-19, making them the first pets in the United States to have confirmed cases of the virus. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the news in a statement published ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Coffee May Do a Heart Good, as Long as It's Filtered HealthDay By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, April 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Stay-at-home orders mean that many people are making their own morning coffee for the first time. Now, a timely new study suggests the healthiest way is with a drip coffee ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times The silent, deadly spread of coronavirus in California began far earlier than first reported Los Angeles Times New information emerging in the last week in California paints a very different picture of the spread of the novel coronavirus than the one suggested by the first, official version. Postmortem testing indicates that two Santa Clara County residents who died in ... Flag as irrelevant
	fox4kc.com The country's coronavirus death count surpasses 50000 as some states relax restrictions fox4kc.com A few states are relaxing restrictions on nonessential businesses on Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic, challenging some health experts who believe it's too soon. This comes as the country passes a grim milestone. At least 50,000 people have died of ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS Denver Tri-County Health Closes Aurora Walmart Due To Coronavirus Outbreak, 3 Deaths Reported CBS Denver AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – The Tri-County Health Department ordered a Walmart to close Thursday due to a COVID-19 outbreak among employees. According to health officials, an employee, her husband and a security guard have died from the virus. Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Mysterious blood clots in COVID-19 patients have doctors alarmed Livescience.com As doctors learn more about what makes COVID-19 so severe for some patients, they have discovered a mysterious and potentially lethal complication of the disease: blood clots. Many doctors have reported seeing an alarming number of COVID-19 patients ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Sweden to shut bars and restaurants that ignore coronavirus restrictions Reuters STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden warned on Friday it would shut restaurants and bars in the capital that did not comply with guidelines aimed at preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus, amid signs Stockholm residents were beginning to ignore the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Miami Herald 2300 sign up to be infected with coronavirus. Are human-challenge trials a good idea? Miami Herald This article has Unlimited Access. For more coverage, sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter. To support our commitment to public service journalism: Subscribe Now. Thousands of volunteers have signed up to be infected with coronavirus in hopes of ... Flag as irrelevant

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