Millions of people confine themselves to their homes as they battle an invisible, viral enemy. Schools and theaters close. Playgrounds empty. Medical staff choose which patients will get life-saving respirators, and which will not. That was polio at its North American peak in the early 1950s. Today, the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak is both familiar and […]
The dire lack of protective gear for health workers is proving an dire threat to attempts to beat back the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization warned Friday. The WHO urged industrial powerhouse countries to ramp up production of personal protective equipment (PPE) as the global body warned that the battle against the new coronavirus […]
Before Riley Richards left elementary school, he knew he wanted be a professional saxophone player. He says he’d go to concerts with his parents, and become drawn to the profound energy of the musicians on stage. By 10 years old he was learning to play the saxophone and by the age of 14 he had […]
We’re all washing our hands vigorously during the Covid-19 pandemic. But what about our nails? A nurse has warned that long nails can be one of the fastest spreaders of coronavirus as they can harbour germs, bacteria and even the virus underneath. The Australian health worker wrote that the best practice is to keep nails […]
Hey kids, do you have questions about the virus that’s caused your school to close and parents constantly telling you to “wash you hands!” Here’s a look at what the coronavirus is, how it infects people and what can be done to protect yourself and your family. Originally published on Live Science. Source: Read Full […]
(HealthDay)—Leading up to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, about 2.2 beds were available per 1,000 people in U.S. hospitals; however, only 36 percent were unoccupied on a typical day, according to a report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Fredric Blavin, Ph.D., and Diane Arnos, from the Urban Institute Health Policy Center, used data […]
The New South Wales government has passed emergency legislation providing the Corrections Commissioner with powers to release some of the state’s 14,034 prisoners. This legislation was introduced in the wake of the global release of prisoners to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Most recently, the United States has begun to release thousands of prisoners across […]
Analysis of human mobility and epidemiological data by a global consortium of researchers, led by the University of Oxford and Northeastern University, shows that human mobility was predictive of the spread of the epidemic in China. Restrictions of travel from Wuhan unfortunately came too late and research showed that the impact of travel restrictions declines […]
A Harvard public health professor warned Tuesday that the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. could rank among the world’s worst if the nation fails to take steps to ease the health and economic impacts on America’s poor, who face challenges rare among developed countries. Mary Bassett, François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Professor of the Practice of Health […]
(HealthDay)—Inhibition of interleukin-1β (IL-1β) with canakinumab is associated with reduced incident anemia as well as improved hemoglobin levels among patients with baseline anemia, according to research published online March 24 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Mounica Vallurupalli, M.D., from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted an exploratory analysis of a multicenter […]
