FORT MYERS A warning from Lee Health on Tuesday: doctors said they’re seeing a slight bump in admissions and will likely see a bigger one later on as more people begin leaving their homes. They emphasized the bump is small from the past few days, but those are the same days we’ve seen more […]
Almost 3,000 cases, Gombe patients protest ‘poor care’ By close of day May 5, there were 2950 confirmed cases of CIOVID-19 in Nigeria, 481 discharged and 98 deaths the NCDC reported. Of the 148 new cases, the breakdown were as follows: 43-Lago, 32-Kano, 14-Zamfara, 10-FCT, 9-Katsina, 7-Taraba, 6-Borno, 6-Ogun, 5-Oyo, 3-Edo, 3-Kaduna, 3-Bauchi, 2-Adamawa, 2-Gombe, […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Health care workers carry a significant burden of coronavirus infections worldwide, but a new evidence review by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University shows the rate can be lowered with the use of personal protective equipment combined with proper training in infection control. The review, funded by the World Health […]
INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR / TEGNA / AP) – Tuesday’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic. US deaths above 70,000 There were 1.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the US as of 6 p.m. ET Tuesday according to Johns Hopkins University. There were more than 70,000 deaths and nearly 190,000 people recovered. There were 3.65 million […]
And now the contagion is beginning to spread more aggressively. Cases are now doubling every 9.5 days, down from 12. The daily death toll has shot up to more than 100, from a few dozen in mid-April. But a walk around New Delhi shows how much has changed. The streets of working-class neighborhoods that were […]
The mental toll of lockdowns appears to be growing as many states enter their seventh week of mandatory stay-at-home orders. Even people who had no previous symptoms of anxiety or depression regularly report nightmares, panic attacks, and agoraphobia to friends and on social media. Many healthy American adults have not left their homes or apartments […]
A pair of new coronavirus treatment reports are offering new insights into experimental drugs being tried to treat Covid-19. The first provides grounds for cautious optimism about Gilead Sciences’ experimental drug remdesivir, while the second raises questions about the safety of hydroxychloroquine, the drug President Donald Trump has recklessly hyped as a potential remedy to […]
Peter Jeary 12m ago / 11:22 AM UTC Yuliya Talmazan 27m ago / 11:08 AM UTC Europe set for record recession, new forecast says The European economy will contract by a record 7.5 percent this year in “a recession of historic proportions” brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, the European Commission forecast on Wednesday. “Europe is […]
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. Kaiser Health News: When Prisons Are ‘Petri Dishes,’ Inmates Can’t Guard Against COVID-19, They Say On April 6, an inmate named Dennis stayed up late at Indiana’s Plainfield Correctional Facility. He wrote to his wife, Lisa, and told her he was scared. “I can tell you […]
They have jetted into some of the most horrifying calamities in recent history, clutching the red, white and blue flag of their small island home. Earthquakes in Indonesia and Pakistan; a cholera outbreak in Haiti; and the Ebola epidemic in west Africa, where they won international plaudits for their hazardous, frontline work. Now, as the […]