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Seniors Form COVID Pods to Ward Off Isolation This Winter

Nov 05, 2020

Over the past month, Dr. Richard Besdine and his wife have been discussing whether to see family and friends indoors this fall and winter. He thinks they should, so long as people have been taking str...

‘Is This Worth My Life?’: Traveling Health Workers Decry COVID Care Conditions

Nov 05, 2020

This story also ran on The Guardian. It can be republished for free. David Joel Perea called from Maine, Vermont, Minnesota and, ultimately, Nevada, always with the same request:...

Lions and Tigers and Anteaters? US Scientists Scan the Menagerie for COVID

Nov 05, 2020

As COVID-19 cases surge in the U.S., one Texas veterinarian has been quietly tracking the spread of the disease — not in people, but in their pets. Since June, Dr. Sarah Hamer and her team at Texas ...

Testing Visual Acuity Via Telemedicine

Nov 05, 2020

“Telemedicine has been brought to the forefront of everyone’s practice during the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Evan Silverstein, MD. “Some specialties are well-suited for telemedicine, while other...

Covid-19: Child Cases Soar to Nearly 200,000 in October

Nov 05, 2020

AAP reports this brings the pandemic peds total to over 850K Nearly 200,000 kids were diagnosed with Covid-19 during the month of October, bringing the pediatric case total over 850,000 since the s...

The Best COVID Warning System? Poop and Pooled Spit, Says One Colorado School

Nov 04, 2020

Carol Wilusz’s mornings now often start at 4 a.m., scanning the contents of undergraduates’ feces. Specifically, scanning the data on how much coronavirus they flushed into the shadows, de...

How COVID Death Counts Become the Stuff of Conspiracy Theories

Nov 04, 2020

In the waning days of the campaign, President Donald Trump complained repeatedly about how the United States tracks the number of people who have died from COVID-19, claiming, “This country and ...

The Respiratory Drive: An Overlooked Tile of COVID-19 Pathophysiology

Nov 04, 2020

Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a fatal disease that is caused by the novel coronavirus.  This disease is known to have many similarities with the other etiologies and hence, is known to have ...

COVID-19 and the Changes in the Sexual Behavior of Men Who Have Sex With Men: Results of an Online Survey

Nov 03, 2020

This study was done to assess and compare sexual behaviors and mental health of Israeli MSM during social distancing in the COVID-19 pandemic. Anonymous web-based questionnaires were used as a tool f...

Covid 19 Vax: ACIP Tackles What and When, Wrestles with Who

Nov 03, 2020

CDC’s Vaccine Advisory Committee hammers out a plan Questions of which populations should get first dibs on a potential Covid-19 vaccine took center stage on the last day of the CDC’s Advisory C...

Covid-19: Lilly’s Antibody Cocktail Down But Not Yet Out

Nov 02, 2020

LY-CoV555 shows some promise for patients recently diagnosed with Covid-19 Eli Lilly’s neutralizing antibody LY-CoV555 may be down, but it is not out as a potential treatment for Covid-19. While ...

Delay Cancer Tx During Covid-19? There’s an App For That

Nov 02, 2020

OncCOVID app models survival, risk:benefit of delaying cancer Tx based on individual risk factors Delayed treatment for cancer patients has become an unfortunate side effect of the Covid-19 pandemi...

The Perils of Liver Injury During COVID-19

Nov 02, 2020

There have been many studies that have been conducted so far in order to understand the correlation between the prevalence of liver injury and COVID-19. In addition, there have been many incidents tha...

Despite COVID Concerns, Teams Venture Into Nursing Homes to Get Out the Vote

Nov 01, 2020

RALEIGH, N.C. — Each time Beverly Tucker visited a nursing home or long-term care facility this fall, she brought along a rolling tote bag packed with supplies from the Durham County Board of Electi...

Democrats Link GOP Challengers to Trump’s COVID Record, Efforts to Undo Obamacare

Nov 01, 2020

In a tweet to his 78,000 followers Sunday, U.S. Rep. Harley Rouda, a Democrat from Orange County, California, described his Republican opponent Michelle Steel’s attendance at an indoor fundraiser wi...

For Each Critically Ill COVID Patient, a Family Is Suffering, Too

Oct 30, 2020

The weeks of fear and uncertainty that Pam and Paul Alexander suffered as their adult daughter struggled against COVID-19 etched itself into the very roots of their hair, leaving behind bald patches b...

Covid-19: Private Practices in Danger of Going Under, AMA Warns

Oct 29, 2020

Medical practices report over 30% drop in revenue as pandemic continues CHICAGO —The American Medical Association (AMA) warned that U.S. physician practices are in serious danger of financial rui...

The Need of Programmatic Responses to COVID:19

Oct 29, 2020

There have been situations in which the people are provided the best possible care in order to assure that the people are provided with the best possible care. Acetaminophen-induced liver injury. This...

Verily’s COVID Testing Program Halted in San Francisco and Oakland

Oct 29, 2020

OAKLAND, Calif. — Amid fanfare in March, California officials celebrated the launch of a multimillion-dollar contract with Verily — Google’s health-focused sister company — that they said ...

Covid-19: Myocardial Injury Ups Inpatient Death Risk

Oct 28, 2020

Study supports routine serial TTE in these patients Nearly two-thirds of Covid-19 patients who underwent echocardiography had heart abnormalities that put them at an increased risk for in-hospital ...

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