The Covid-19-pandemic keeps the world in breath. Already, more than 6.9 million people globally have become infected with the pathogen of Sars-CoV-2 – 184.294 of them in Germany. 400,000 people have already died of Covid-19. Thuringia ended contact restrictions in favour of the recommendations In Thuringia, due to the Corona pandemic, adopted, contact, restrictions on […]
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients at a New York City medical facility had higher rates of kidney complications than other COVID-19 patient groups in different areas of the U.S. and other countries, according to a new study from researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian. The study, using data from electronic health records and published […]
The Covid-19-pandemic keeps the world in breath. Already, more than 6.9 million people have been infected worldwide with the novel pathogen, Sars-CoV-2 – 184.294 of them in Germany. 400,000 people died from Covid-19 already. All messages to the Corona-crisis in Germany, Europe and the world, you will find in the News Ticker of FOCUS Online. […]
Charité-study: Severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection on blood picture The blood picture of COVID-19-Affected, which are slightly ill, differs according to a recent German study of the blood of seriously ill persons. The blood Profiles could help doctors in the future, the decision about the type of treatment. Researchers from the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and […]
As communities across the U.S. have struggled to cope with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have focused on the lack of widespread testing as a major barrier to safely reopening the country. As progress has been made on this front, concern has shifted to testing accuracy, predominantly with antibody tests, which are designed […]
Nearly 4 in 10 American adults reported engaging in dangerous cleaning practices to prevent COVID-19, such as washing food with bleach, using household disinfecting products on their skin or intentionally inhaling vapors from cleaning products, according to a recent survey. A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) follows an earlier study […]
A new paper published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines ventilation and medication strategies that can help avoid psychological trauma for severe COVID-19 survivors treated for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with mechanical ventilation. In “Air Hunger and Psychological Trauma in Ventilated COVID-19 Patients: An Urgent Problem,” Richard Schwartzstein, MD, and […]
Why you need to stand up EVERY half an hour if you want to start getting fit… and what coronavirus does to your body: Dr MICHAEL MOSLEY explains how to stay one step ahead of Covid-19 as lockdown eases Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19 All this week, in exclusive extracts from his new […]
(HealthDay)—Face masks help prevent the spread of COVID-19, but some people find them awkward, uncomfortable or downright unbearable to wear. There’s another good option available for people who just can’t get used to strapping on a face mask while out in public, experts say. Plastic face shields offer another means of deterring COVID-19 that some […]
There’s the idea that cloth masks don’t protect people from the coronavirus, so there’s no point in wearing them (hint: They do). That COVID-19 is just like the flu (it’s not). That it only affects old people (also no). There are plenty of misconceptions about COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. And that’s […]
