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	health Daily update ⋅ May 8, 2020
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	NPR The Coronavirus Is Mutating. That's Normal. Does That Mean It's More Dangerous? NPR This week, the question of mutation has been front and center in coverage of the coronavirus — from controversial claims about changes that make the virus more contagious to reassurances that any mutations are not yet consequential. Here are some of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Rollout of antibody tests met with confusion, little oversight CNN (CNN) Public health experts, including members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, have argued accurate Covid-19 antibody tests can support efforts to get Americans back to work by determining who may have overcome the virus. But the rollout of ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay HealthDay Reports: Virus Found in Semen of COVID-19 Survivors – Is It Sexually Transmittable? HealthDay A new study from China claims that traces of COVID-19 have been found in the semen of some men who were severely infected with COVID-19. Virus Found in Semen of COVID-19 Survivors – Is It Sexually Transmittable? THURSDAY, May 7, 2020 ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com As '#Plandemic' goes viral, those targeted by discredited scientist's crusade warn of 'dangerous' claims NBCNews.com A video from a discredited scientist promoting a hodgepodge of conspiracy theories about the coronavirus went viral across every social media platform Thursday. It was initially pushed by anti-vaccination disinformation peddlers, and then picked up steam ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Posting edited selfies on social media may make you more at risk for an eating disorder, a new study says CNN (CNN) Turns out, all those selfies we've edited and posted on social media could be more problematic than we thought. A recent study, published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, found a "consistent and direct link" between posting edited ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Evidence Builds Linking Anticoagulation to COVID-19 Survival Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Use of systemic anticoagulation may improve the chance of survival in patients hospitalized with the COVID-19 virus, a large study from the epicenter of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Who is Judy Mikovits in 'Plandemic,' the coronavirus conspiracy video just banned from social media? Washington Post When Judy Mikovits co-wrote a 2009 research paper that linked the mysterious condition known as chronic fatigue syndrome to a retrovirus that came from mice, thousands of sick patients hoping for relief rallied behind her. The scientific riddle was solved, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Harvard Gazette How far are we from a vaccine? Depends on who 'we' is Harvard Gazette This is part of our Coronavirus Update series in which Harvard specialists in epidemiology, infectious disease, economics, politics, and other disciplines offer insights into what the latest developments in the COVID-19 outbreak may bring. One of the most ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Tensions and backlash mount as US coronavirus reopenings reveal a new way of life CNN (CNN) With nearly all states partially reopened this week, backlash and frustrations are growing Friday as Americans struggle with ways to combat the deadly coronavirus. More than 45 states by Sunday will have relaxed restrictions on some combination of ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: How they tried to curb Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 BBC News It is dangerous to draw too many parallels between coronavirus and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, that killed at least 50 million people around the world. Covid-19 is an entirely new disease, which disproportionately affects older people. The deadly strain of ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN CVS chief medical officer: How coronavirus testing needs to change CNN Dr. Troyen Brennan is chief medical officer and executive vice president of CVS Health. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Perspectives Troyen Brennan. Social distancing has blunted the spread of Covid-19 and different parts of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Wall Street Journal Among New Coronavirus Antibody Tests, Limited Value and Many Unknowns Wall Street Journal More than 100 antibody tests, designed to tell whether a person had contracted and potentially recovered from Covid-19 in the past, are now available in the U.S. But only a few have been reviewed or deemed reliable by regulators, and high-quality tests still ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Atlantic You'll Probably Never Know If You Had the Coronavirus in January The Atlantic Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. There is no doubt that the coronavirus was spreading in the United States in January. We can at least start with that. Recently, California's ... Flag as irrelevant
	Science Magazine The race is on for antibodies that stop the new coronavirus Science Magazine One of the first people to be diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United States hopes a legacy of her nightmare—the antibodies it left in her blood—will lead to a drug that can help others infected with the novel coronavirus that has now killed more than 250,000 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Blood thinners show promise for boosting the survival chances of the sickest covid patients Washington Post Treating coronavirus patients with blood thinners could help boost their prospects for survival, according to preliminary findings from physicians at New York City's largest hospital system that offer another clue about treating the deadly condition. The results of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times An Orange County cafe opened in defiance of Newsom. Now it's the center of stay-at-home resistance Los Angeles Times When Jeff Gourley welcomed diners into his San Clemente restaurant, Nomads Canteen, last week for the first time since mid-March, the response was so overwhelming that he quickly ran out of food — and had to close again. Gourley made attempts to ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN International Where are the bodies? Missing remains mean no peace for grieving families in Ecuador CNN International (CNN) When Flavio Ramos was wheeled into the hospital room, he was gasping for air and slipping in and out of consciousness. So it was his son, Arturo, who first noticed the bodies. Two corpses laid unattended on the tile floor. By the next morning, the body ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Virus Could Kill 190000 Africans and 'Smolder' in Continent The New York Times JOHANNESBURG — An estimated 190,000 people in Africa could die of COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic and the disease could "smolder" across the continent for years, the World Health Organization has warned. As many as 44 million of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times This Is the Future of the Pandemic The New York Times By now we know — contrary to false predictions — that the novel coronavirus will be with us for a rather long time. "Exactly how long remains to be seen," said Marc Lipsitch, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Society must prepare for the mental health impacts of coronavirus on kids Los Angeles Times Four-year-olds have playdates through closed windows, sliding their toy cars in unison on either side of the glass. A high school student worries about his mother going to work in a food-packing warehouse, at risk for contracting COVID-19. Another teen says ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Our coronavirus blind spot: People like me who need dialysis Los Angeles Times Today, at age 81, I am lying in a rehabilitation facility in Los Angeles. Several weeks ago I fell in my home, breaking my clavicle, several ribs and my hip, and began an intense regimen to regain my health. During this pandemic I am obviously concerned to be ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Coronavirus Killing Black Britons at Twice the Rate of Whites The New York Times LONDON — Black people in England and Wales are twice as likely to die from the coronavirus as white people, even accounting for differences in class and in some underlying health measures, according to official figures released on Thursday, laying bare ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Facebook and other companies remove viral 'Plandemic' conspiracy video Washington Post Social media companies including YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook are removing a viral conspiracy theory video because of its claims regarding the coronavirus pandemic. The roughly 26-minute video was presented as an extremely long "trailer" for a ... Flag as irrelevant
	Daily Beast Discredited Doctor and Sham 'Science' are the Stars of Viral Coronavirus Documentary 'Plandemic' Daily Beast Millions of Americans have been exposed to "Plandemic," a 22-minute conspiracy theory documentary about the coronavirus that racked up millions of views on Facebook and YouTube before it was banned from both sites. In the video, controversial scientist ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times FDA Clears First Home Saliva Test for Coronavirus The New York Times The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it had granted emergency authorization for the first at-home saliva collection kit to test for the coronavirus. The test kit was developed by a Rutgers University laboratory, called RUCDR Infinite Biologics, ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Could Lower Testosterone Help Men Ward Off COVID-19? HealthDay By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, May 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Many drugs are being tested to fight COVID-19, but now researchers report that blocking testosterone might help prevent the infection in men. Italian men with prostate ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Does obesity increase the risk? BBC News Being obese is known to increase the risk of a number of diseases, including heart disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes. Early research suggests it may also make people more ill with Covid-19, but why is this the case? Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Virus could 'smolder' in Africa, cause many deaths, says WHO Washington Post JOHANNESBURG — The coronavirus could "smolder" in Africa for years and take a high death toll across the continent, the World Health Organization has warned. The virus is spreading in Africa, but so far the continent has not seen a dramatic explosion in ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com At least 85 kids across US have developed rare, mysterious COVID-19-linked illness NBCNews.com Children with a rare but potentially dangerous complication thought to be linked to the coronavirus have now been identified in at least seven states and the Washington, D.C., area. Doctors say the increase does not necessarily suggest that the number of ... Flag as irrelevant
	KOMO News Walla Walla County now says no coronavirus parties occurred KOMO News WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — Officials in a county in southeastern Washington state are retracting their claim that some people held parties in which they intentionally exposed themselves to the coronavirus. Walla Walla County Department of Community ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Data Shows Virus Death Risk Twice as High for Black Britons The New York Times LONDON — Almost all ethnic minorities in Britain are at greater risk of dying with the coronavirus, and black men and black women are nearly twice as likely to die than white individuals, according to an analysis by the national statistics agency. The Office of ... Flag as irrelevant
	TIME Hydroxychloroquine Fails to Help Coronavirus Patients in Largest Study of the Drug to Date TIME In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists led by a team at Columbia University found that people infected with COVID-19 taking hydroxychloroquine do not fare better than those not receiving the drug. The study published ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Immunity of recovered COVID-19 patients could cut risk of expanding economic activity Medical Xpress While attention remains focused on the number of COVID-19 deaths and new cases, a separate statistic—the number of recovered patients—may be equally important to the goal of minimizing the pandemic's infection rate as shelter-in-place orders are lifted. Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Report Paints Scathing Picture of Nursing Home Where 17 Bodies Piled Up The New York Times One patient at a troubled nursing home in northern New Jersey was found dead in bed, 12 hours after falling on a wet floor and suffering a head injury. Rigor mortis had set in. The patient had suffered from a high fever for days, but a doctor was never told. Flag as irrelevant
	Wall Street Journal Antimalaria Drug Doesn't Help Treat Covid-19, Large But Inconclusive Study Finds Wall Street Journal An antimalaria drug didn't appear to help Covid-19 patients any more than patients who didn't get the treatment at a New York City hospital, according to one of the largest studies so far exploring the coronavirus-fighting potential of the pills. Patients who got ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Coronavirus May Lurk in Semen, Researchers Report The New York Times Scientists across the world are trying to piece together a perplexing puzzle: how exactly coronavirus affects the body, and how it spreads from person to person. In recent months, they have learned that the virus can live on some surfaces for three days and ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report In Small Study, Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Appears to Help COVID-19 Patients U.S. News & World Report By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In the scramble to find medicines that beat back COVID-19, researchers from Italy report encouraging results from a small study on a rheumatoid arthritis drug ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Virus Found in Semen of COVID-19 Survivors WebMD By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, May 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Traces of the COVID-19 coronavirus have been found in the semen of some severely infected men, raising the possibility that the virus might be sexually transmitted, ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay In Small Study, Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Appears to Help COVID-19 Patients HealthDay THURSDAY, May 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In the scramble to find medicines that beat back COVID-19, researchers from Italy report encouraging results from a small study on a rheumatoid arthritis drug already in use. The drug, anakinra, may help quiet ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Those partygoers in Washington state weren't trying to get Covid-19 after all CNN (CNN) So much for those "Covid-19 parties." Earlier this week, health officials in the Washington county of Walla Walla warned about reports of people attending parties to purposely get infected with Covid-19. Now, they've walked back those claims, saying ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Could llamas be the key to fighting the coronavirus? Researchers propose unique antibody theory USA TODAY A Belgian llama named Winter could hold the key to fighting the coronavirus. Researchers at the University of Texas, in coordination with the National Institutes of Health and Ghent University in Belgium, published a paper Tuesday in the Journal "Cell" about ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Could a 100-year-old vaccine for tuberculosis protect against coronavirus? Medical Xpress This week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced it will donate A$10 million to help fund an Australian trial testing whether a very old vaccine, BCG, can be used against a new threat, COVID-19. So what is the BCG vaccine and what might its ... Flag as irrelevant
	Atlanta Journal Constitution Vast changes may be needed so children don't spread COVID-19 Atlanta Journal Constitution The COVID-19 epidemic arrived with an important silver lining: Fewer children seemed to catch the disease, and with many who did, you could barely tell. But as Georgia inches back to work, that is starting to pose a big problem. The scarce tests have gone to ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News 8-year-old rushed to hospital due to mystery illness linked to COVID-19 ABC News Jayden Hardowar, 8, of Richmond Hill, Queens, spiked a mild fever sometime around April 23. A pediatrician told Jayden's parents not to worry and to continue taking children's Tylenol, his father, Roup Hardowar, told ABC News on Thursday. In three days ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress What needs to go right to get a coronavirus vaccine in 12 to 18 months Medical Xpress I, like many Americans, miss the pre-pandemic world of hugging family and friends, going to work and having dinner at a restaurant. A protective vaccine for SARS-Cov2 is likely to be the most effective public health tool to get back to that world. Anthony Fauci ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Malaria Drug Shows No Benefit in Another Coronavirus Study The New York Times A new study finds no evidence of benefit from a malaria drug widely promoted as a treatment for coronavirus infection. Hydroxychloroquine did not lower the risk of dying or needing a breathing tube in a comparison that involved nearly 1,400 patients treated ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Program That Collects Devices for COVID-19 Patients Expands The New York Times NORTHFIELD, N.H. — It's one of the many cruelties of the pandemic: Many people hospitalized with COVID-19 are cut off from loved ones who are not allowed to visit them, for fear of the disease spreading. Kaya Suner came up with a solution. Flag as irrelevant
	Chicago Tribune Scientists consider indoor ultraviolet light to zap coronavirus in the air Chicago Tribune As society tries to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic, some scientists hope a decades-old technology could zap pathogens out of the air in stores, restaurants and classrooms, potentially playing a key role in containing further spread of the infection. Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Remembering humanity's triumph over a virus, 40 years on Medical Xpress As scientists scramble for a COVID-19 cure and vaccine, the world marks on Friday a pertinent anniversary: humanity's only true triumph over an infectious disease with its eradication of smallpox four decades ago. On May 8, 1980, representatives of all World ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Small study of patients with severe COVID-19 treated with the arthritis drug anakinra finds clinical improvements Medical Xpress The first study to report use of the rheumatoid arthritis drug anakinra to treat COVID-19 patients found that high-dose anakinra was safe and was associated with respiratory improvements and reduced signs of cytokine storm in 72% (21/29) of patients, ... Flag as irrelevant

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