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	health Daily update ⋅ April 4, 2020
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	NPR Scientists Probe How Coronavirus Might Travel Through The Air NPR When researcher Josh Santarpia stands at the foot of a bed, taking measurements with a device that can detect tiny, invisible particles of mucus or saliva that come out of someone's mouth and move through the air, he can tell whether the bedridden person is ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Coronavirus Models Offer the Big Picture, Not the Details of What May Come The New York Times Ontario followed British Columbia on Friday by releasing its projections for what may lie ahead in those provinces with the coronavirus. Image. Doug Ford, the Ontario premier, with personal protective equipment.Credit...Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press, via ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post White House and CDC in turf battle over guidance on broad use of face masks to fight coronavirus Washington Post The White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in a turf battle between some of the president's advisers and experts at the country's leading public health agency over whether Americans should wear face coverings in public, ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN 'Normal' will look completely different when this is all over CNN A version of this story appeared in CNN's What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. (CNN) We are all stuck in the midst of this thing -- whether on the front lines of fighting it or just in our houses waiting for it to pass. More and more ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Can an Old Vaccine Stop the New Coronavirus? The New York Times A vaccine that was developed a hundred years ago to fight the tuberculosis scourge in Europe is now being tested against the coronavirus by scientists eager to find a quick way to protect health care workers, among others. The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY 'The damage was done': 75 test positive for coronavirus at Texas facility USA TODAY Residents at the Denton State Supported Living Center rose on the morning of March 20, aided by caregivers who helped them bathe, brush their teeth and eat breakfast. Employees fanned out across the sweeping Texas campus for individuals with ... Flag as irrelevant
	TIME Should Healthy People Wear Masks to Prevent Coronavirus? The Answer May Be Changing TIME If you have no symptoms of the coronavirus, should you wear a mask? It's one of the most-asked questions during this pandemic, and until recently, one of the most easily answered—if you follow the guidance of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN As coronavirus cases grow, hospitals adopt a system to rank patients for treatment CNN (CNN) With the peak of Covid-19 infections still ahead and medical supplies still scarce, hospitals and physicians are gearing up for a nearly impossible challenge: deciding who gets a life-saving ventilator and who doesn't. "Physicians who work in parts of ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Coronavirus might spread much farther than 6 feet in the air. CDC says wear a mask in public. USA TODAY Air contaminated with the COVID-19 virus might travel four times farther than the 6 feet the CDC asks we distance ourselves, according to a recent study. The study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that under the right ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post New Mask Guidance Could Strain Supply, Test Limits of Market The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's expected new guidance that many people in the United States should start wearing face coverings when out in public is raising concern that it could cause a sudden run on masks. Though some people already ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Coronavirus FAQs: Is A Homemade Mask Effective? And What's The Best Way To Wear One? NPR Since the beginning of the global coronavirus pandemic, Americans have been told by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention not to wear masks unless they are sick, caring for a sick person who is unable to wear one or working in health care. Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report A Mounting Casualty of Coronavirus Crisis: Health Care Jobs The New York Times HARRISBURG, Pa. — Tens of thousands of medical workers across the United States are suddenly out of work as operating rooms and doctor's offices go dark, casualties of urgent calls to prioritize coronavirus patients at overwhelmed hospitals and of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Chron.com NOT REAL NEWS: False Coronavirus Claims and Phony Remedies The New York Times A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___. CLAIM: Eating ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN What California is doing right in responding to the coronavirus pandemic CNN (CNN) The Grand Princess cruise ship floated for days off the coast of San Francisco in early March like an omen to a coming disaster. "We could see it from our windows," said Dr. Robert Wachter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Do I Have COVID-19? Doctors' Free Tools May Tell WebMD April 3, 2020 -- A little over 3 weeks ago, Emory University Hospital emergency room doctor Justin Schrager, MD, was living at home with his wife and two young children, awaiting the birth of their third child. Slowly, his ER began to fill with patients who had ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Coronavirus Sweeps Through a San Antonio Nursing Home The New York Times HOUSTON — A coronavirus outbreak at a San Antonio nursing home has infected 66 of the facility's 84 residents and killed an additional resident, the largest spread of the virus at a Texas long-term care facility, city and county officials said on Friday. Flag as irrelevant
	syracuse.com Upstate Hospital's COVID soldiers: Behind air-locked doors, doctors and nurses battle a mysterious virus syracuse.com Syracuse, N.Y. -- Even now, Dr. Dinesh Subedi leans in when his patients talk to him. They speak softly, sometimes in gasps. Many of them are elderly. They are alone. Subedi, the attending physician in the COVID-19 unit at Upstate University Hospital for the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times 'Disaster' Feared if Sick Moved to California Nursing Homes The New York Times LOS ANGELES — A California directive that could open the way for some patients sickened with COVID-19 to be sent from overburdened hospitals to nursing homes is being criticized by industry officials who fear vulnerable, elderly residents would be placed ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR 'We'll Get Through This': Living In New York City During The Coronavirus Pandemic NPR Brooklyn's Prospect Park looks normal. It's just after 8 a.m. Joggers are running the loop singing to themselves. Cyclists are whizzing by and dog owners are ignoring their pets, staring at their phones. But Holly Williams says life doesn't feel normal — she's ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report WHO Opens Door to Broader Use of Masks to Limit Spread of Coronavirus The New York Times GENEVA/WASHINGTON — The World Health Organization on Friday said that medical masks should be prioritised for health workers, but it opened the door to greater public use of homemade masks or other mouth coverings as a way to reduce the spread of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Wall Street Journal US Nursing Homes Urged to Take More Stringent Coronavirus Measures to Control Fast Spread Wall Street Journal Facing an exploding number of coronavirus cases in nursing homes, the Trump administration unveiled new guidelines aimed at stemming the spread, including aggressive steps to segregate the infected and constant mask-wearing for staff members. Flag as irrelevant
	The New Yorker What the Coronavirus Is Doing to Rural Georgia The New Yorker Vanessa Williams's uncle Johnny Carter died in late February, at the age of seventy. On the first Saturday in March, the family held a funeral at the Gethsemane Worship Center, a large, modern building on the north side Albany, Georgia, a city of about ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Can the UK do 100000 tests a day? BBC News The UK government has promised it will dramatically increase coronavirus testing to 100,000 a day by the end of the month. It has been criticised for not testing more people already, as countries like Germany have managed to reach 50,000 tests a day. Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Does Covid-19 Hit Women and Men Differently? US Isn't Keeping Track The New York Times Caroline Criado Perez, author of "Invisible Women". [In Her Words is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox.] As the novel coronavirus sweeps the world, sickening hundreds of thousands of people and killing at least 50,000 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post For Alzheimer's researchers, a long and frustrating struggle to find a drug Washington Post In February, pharmaceutical companies Roche and Eli Lilly announced that two experimental drugs they had developed for Alzheimer's disease had failed in clinical trials. Roche's drug, gantenerumab, and Eli Lilly's solanezumab joined more than 100 other ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Here's why the new coronavirus is so good at infecting human cells Livescience.com The protein which the coronavirus uses to attach to human cells has a compact "ridge" which allows it to attach more strongly to human cells than similar viruses, allowing it to infect better and spread faster, according to a new study. The new coronavirus ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News What we're learning from online coronavirus screening project ABC News With symptoms of the novel coronavirus overlapping with allergies, the common cold, influenza and asthma exacerbations, many wonder if their symptoms are COVID-19 and warrant a trip to the doctor's office. The New York Times via Redux, FILE. Medical ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Journalist says she unknowingly infected others with coronavirus at her mom's 90th birthday party. Two died CNN (CNN) Journalist Alice Stockton-Rossini hosted a 90th birthday for her mother last month in New Jersey. At the time, the radio host said, she had no idea she'd been infected with coronavirus while covering an outbreak in New Rochelle, New York. Flag as irrelevant
	oregonlive.com 'Overwhelmed' by coronavirus cases, Oregon rethinks efficacy of its contact tracing oregonlive.com State and county health officials struggled in the early weeks of Oregon's coronavirus outbreak to identify, contact and monitor everyone in close proximity to known COVID-19 patients, top public health officials acknowledged this week in interviews with The ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Hospitals, Universities Push For Treatment Using Plasma From Recovered COVID Patients NPR With few tools in their medical kit, doctors are turning to an old idea for treating COVID-19: using plasma from recovered patients to treat patients infected with the coronavirus. To facilitate that approach, a consortium of 50 hospitals and universities have ... Flag as irrelevant
	Wall Street Journal New Orleans Area Has Worst Coronavirus Death Rate in US Wall Street Journal The coronavirus is killing residents in southeast Louisiana at higher rates than in other parts of the U.S., a new analysis shows, adding urgency to efforts to slow its spread through an already unhealthy population. Two Louisiana parishes, the state's ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fortune Google's mobility data shows how each state in the US is faring with social distancing Fortune Subscribe to Outbreak, a daily newsletter roundup of stories on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on global business. It's free to get it in your inbox. While Washington has yet to issue a national stay at home order, many states and businesses have ... Flag as irrelevant
	WFAA.com Live COVID-19 updates: Dallas County reports 90 new cases WFAA.com The number of COVID-19 cases across North Texas continues to increase as more people get tested each day. On Thursday, the Dallas-Fort Worth area surpassed 1,500 cases of the novel coronavirus. Some of the infected patients include first responders, ... Flag as irrelevant
	TIME America's Devastating First Plague and the Birth of Epidemiology TIME The terror that is gripping Americans due to the coronavirus would be familiar to America's founding generation. As Noah Webster, then the editor of New York City's first daily newspaper, wrote to a friend in the fall of 1793, "The melancholy accounts received ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Phone company 'greedy' over hospital phone charges BBC News An NHS trust has been told it would have to pay almost £10,000 a month to provide patients with free phone calls during the pandemic. Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust has had to restrict visitors due to Covid-19. It asked the company that provides bedside ... Flag as irrelevant
	Minneapolis Star Tribune Calls mount to lift bans on gay men giving blood amid coronavirus Reuters NEW YORK/BERLIN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Andreas, a gay man living in Berlin, wants to donate blood but he is not allowed. Germany's rules require that gay or bisexual men abstain from sex for at least 12 months before donating due to concerns ... Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com Coronavirus Slams LA Nursing Homes As County Toll Tops 4566 Patch.com Health officials predicted 1,000 new cases daily by next week and called on grocery stores to offer free deliveries for the elderly. By Paige Austin, Patch Staff. Apr 3, 2020 2:28 pm PT. Reply. 0. Health officials predicted 1,000 new cases daily by next week and ... Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED Trials of Plasma From Recovered Covid-19 Patients Have Begun WIRED US Food and Drug Administration officials announced today they have approved plans for nationwide trials of two treatments for Covid-19, the global pandemic disease caused by the new coronavirus—and for their simultaneous use in perhaps hundreds of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters UK UK Ramps Up Coronavirus Trials but Results 'a Few Months Away' The New York Times LONDON — Britain said on Friday it was launching the biggest clinical trial of possible treatments for coronavirus in the world but a leading health official cautioned that the results were likely a few months away. Almost 1,000 patients from 132 hospitals had ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR FACT CHECK: Premature — Trump Continues To Claim Drug Can Treat Coronavirus NPR Scientists are currently carrying out a trial to see whether a drug that's currently used to treat lupus and to prevent malaria might also help treat COVID-19. Their interest is based on laboratory studies showing that the drug, hydroxychloroquine, blocked the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Myjoyonline.com AACR Calls for Immediate Action Against COVID-19 from Congress for Patients with Cancer Cancer Network In a letter to Congress, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) called for immediate action to be taken to protect patients with cancer against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. According to the AACR, the scientific and ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Oregon Residents Assemble 11k Masks for Health-Care Workers U.S. News & World Report FILE - In this March 26, 2020, file photo, people from Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics, hand out kits to make surgical masks causing a traffic jam in Salem, Ore., Thursday, March 26, 2020. Hospital workers in Oregon are astounded at the community response ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline How Antibody Testing Can Help Us Fight COVID-19 Healthline The FDA approved the first antibody test for COVID-19. Several groups are also working on a blood test that would show whether someone once had COVID-19, and possibly whether they're immune. These types of tests could help officials discover who's no ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Virus hits NYC hardest in a few working-class neighborhoods Washington Post NEW YORK — The coronavirus pandemic has hit especially hard in a few poorer New York City neighborhoods where telecommuting isn't an option for many workers and there are more likely to be many people living under one roof. Residents of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times 27 people at Bay Area nursing home positive for coronavirus: 'We are very very concerned' Los Angeles Times Twenty-seven people at a skilled nursing facility in the East Bay city of Orinda have tested positive for coronavirus, in the latest sign of the dangers such facilities face. Contra Costa County health officials said the facility, the 47-bed Orinda Care Center, notified ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Losing a loved one is hard. While social distancing, it's brutal Los Angeles Times I'm typing this with gloved hands and 6 feet of distance between myself and my hero. I pause to read that sentence, and I can't hold back the tears or fight the persistent lump in my throat. My grandfather is dying in hospice care. And I have never more ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Harsh Spring Allergy Season Spurs Hay Fever Fears Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. A consistent increase in the intensity and length of allergy season in regions of the United States signals a difficult season in 2020 for patients with ... Flag as irrelevant
	Science News Can plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients treat the sick? Science News Since March 28, at least 11 patients critically ill with COVID-19 at hospitals in New York City and Houston became the first in the United States to receive a promising experimental treatment. But the therapy, newly authorized for emergency use by the U.S. ... Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com Mass Quarantine, Isolation Ordered In Contra Costa County Patch.com County public health staff no longer have the capacity to individually notify and track everyone with COVID-19 and their close contacts. By Maggie Fusek, Patch Staff. Apr 3, 2020 1:25 pm PT | Updated Apr 3, 2020 11:14 pm PT ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Orange County coronavirus infections more than double in a week, now top 700 Los Angeles Times Orange County reported 57 new coronavirus infections Friday, hiking its total number of cases to 711 — more than double what it was a week ago. The county's death toll remained unchanged at 13 — the first time in four days that more COVID-19-related ... Flag as irrelevant

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