Is the U.S. getting close to being able to reopen, after weeks of social distancing? Experts say more work needs to be done ramping up systems like drive-through COVID-19 testing centers. Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Is the…
Prosecutors in the Bay Area have opened an investigation into a nursing home in Hayward where 13 people have died after contracting the novel coronavirus.A spokeswoman for Alameda County Dist. Atty. Nancy O’Malley said Wednesday that her office had begun an investigation into Gateway Care & Rehabilitation Center. Officials said 41 residents and 26 staff…
Stanford medical student Thomas Koehnkz takes a blood sample from Alan Wessel of Mountain View, Calif., for a coronavirus antibody study. Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images Stanford medical student Thomas Koehnkz takes a blood sample from Alan Wessel of Mountain…
The prevalence of these effects is too great to attribute them solely to the “cytokine storm,” a powerful immune-system response that attacks the body, causing severe damage, doctors and researchers said.Almost half the people hospitalized because of covid-19 have blood or protein in their urine, indicating early damage to their kidneys, said Alan Kliger, a…
The death toll at a Hayward nursing home with a large coronavirus outbreak increased to 11 Tuesday with the death of a community leader there, and another Alameda County facility recorded its first death, health officials announced. The death at East Bay Post Acute Care in Castro Valley, where 45 patients and staff are stricken…
CLOSE The U.S. is currently facing a shortage of ventilators. Here’s how they work and why they are so important in fighting COVID-19. USA TODAYPHOENIX – 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…
Voters wait in a line while maintaining social distancing upon their arrival to cast their vote at a polling station (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)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…
When Angela Primachenko awoke from a week-long, medically induced coma on April 6, she was disoriented from all of the medications in her body.She had also lost her pregnant belly and gained a newborn daughter, while doctors kept her unconscious so that her body could fight a severe case of covid-19, the respiratory illness caused…
Residents of Sonoma County will be required to wear facial coverings in public starting Friday to guard against spread of the coronavirus, according to an order from the county’s health officer. The order, issued Monday, goes further than previous recommendations by health officials that people cover their faces when they leave home. Riverside and San…
Dr. Ryan Padgett, a Seattle emergency room physician, contracted COVID-19 and was saved by doctors who used an experimental treatment. (Karen Ducey / Los Angeles Times)As critically ill, elderly patients streamed into his emergency room outside Seattle, Dr. Ryan Padgett quickly came to understand how deadly COVID-19 could be.Of the first two dozen or so…
Yolo County officials declared a COVID-19 outbreak Monday at a nursing home as 35 people, including residents and staff, tested positive. One person also died from the virus. Everybody who tested positive at the nursing home, which county officials are not naming at this time, has been isolated and is being monitored, Yolo County said…
(CNN)As the world watches and wonders when coronavirus pandemic stay-at-home orders and social distancing measures might end, some hope antibody tests might help provide a solution.Antibody tests — also known as serology tests — aren’t meant to diagnose active infection with the coronavirus. Rather, they check for proteins in the immune system, known as antibodies,…
U.N. and global health experts warned that poor countries around the world were having to stop mass immunization programs to reduce the risk of spreading Covid-19.A free measles clinic in Brazil, near the Venezuelan border, in 2018.Credit…Nacho Doce/ReutersMore than 100 million children could be at risk for measles because countries around the world are suspending…
WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL) — Over 3 days, Black Hawk County saw an increase of 41 confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the county’s total to 62. Officials believe this is the first sign of a surge in positive cases that they’re anticipating will continue. “Welcome to the ‘suck.’ It’s starting to get bad,” said Black Hawk County…
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea reported on Monday that at least 116 people initially cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again, although officials suggested they would soon look at easing strict recommendations aimed at preventing new outbreaks. FILE PHOTO: A man and children wearing masks to protect against contracting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)…
Almost 100 new cases in China were linked to people returning from Russia. A study of a drug, related to the one President Trump has promoted, was halted after patients developed heartbeat irregularities.Right NowAs France prepares to extend its lockdown, the head of President Emmanuel Macron’s party says its eventual lifting “will not be a…
HEALTH While it’s unknown if the treatment will work, doctors are hopeful, and people who have recovered are eager to donate. AURORA, Colo. — There are small ways everyone can help, and Lin Szydlo began by making masks for people who work at the cat shelter where she volunteers. “I’m doing crafty things,” said the 69-year-old…
Biogen employees unwittingly spread the coronavirus from Massachusetts to Indiana, Tennessee and North Carolina.Credit…Cody O’Loughlin for The New York TimesPublished April 12, 2020Updated April 13, 2020, 12:02 a.m. ETBOSTON — On the first Monday in March, Michel Vounatsos, chief executive of the drug company Biogen, appeared in good spirits. The company’s new Alzheimer’s drug was…
| April 13, 2020 12:00 AM Ordinary people have been doing extraordinary things these days, but the federal government keeps underperforming. The government’s failure to make COVID-19 tests widely available is a prime example. Despite broad consensus on the need for COVID-19 testing, the number of those tested is far behind where it should be.…
TCPalm Staff Published 8:56 p.m. ET April 12, 2020 | Updated 8:21 a.m. ET April 13, 2020CLOSE Got a minute? Here’s how you can help slow the spread of Coronavirus COVID-19 in under 60 seconds. IzodNews To provide our community with important public safety information, our newsroom is making stories related to the coronavirus…
The countywide total is at 441 Published April 11, 2020 • Updated on April 11, 2020 at 6:54 pm Health officials in Collin County reported 18 new cases of coronavirus Saturday, bringing the countywide total to 441. Collin County Health Care Services reported it had tested more than 2,200 people through Saturday afternoon, with just…