Photographer Go Nakamura has visited a COVID-19 intensive care unit in Houston about 20 times, but he never gets used to what he sees there. Taking photos too graphic to share; seeing patients one day who will be gone when he returns later in the week – there’s no getting used […]
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Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno on Thursday opened in its parking garage a medical unit for COVID-19 patients, whose growing numbers have alarmed hospital officials. “Over the weekend, it really looked as though our back was against the wall,” with patients unable to move out of the ER because […]
(Reuters) – The frontrunners in the COVID-19 vaccine race have emerged with different success rates for their shots in clinical trials, but what does that mean for the global fight against the pandemic? U.S. drugmakers Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna have each said their coronavirus vaccines have an efficacy rate of around […]
On Friday, Pfizer CEO and chairman Albert Bourla announced that the company has filed a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine, making it the first to do so. In a discussion on TIME 100 Talks, Bourla says that if […]
CLOSE Months into the COVID-19 pandemic states are setting records for the most new cases and deaths in a week since the pandemic began. USA TODAY Louisville’s Peace Hospital, one of the largest psychiatric facilities in the nation, is experiencing a severe outbreak of COVID-19 among children, teens and employees who […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is imposing a nighttime curfew as its coronavirus figures soar but it will lean heavily on voluntary compliance and sheriffs of some counties say they won’t enforce it. What officials are calling a limited stay-at-home order requires people who are not on essential errands to stay […]
The vaccine unit opening comes as global coronavirus infections are rising sharply, with nearly 200,000 cases reported daily in the United States. Montefiore’s goal is to ensure more than half of all trial participants are adults most affected by COVID-19 with a focus on people older than 65. Across the country, […]
This article is reproduced with permission from Scientific American. It was first published on November 19, 2020. Find the original story here. Two drug companies have now reported highly successful results from phase III trials of COVID-19 vaccines. On November 18 Pfizer and partner BioNTech said their vaccine was 95 […]
None of the people I spoke with would predict when UNMC will finally hit its capacity ceiling, partly because they’re doing everything to avoid that scenario, and partly because it’s so grim as to be almost unthinkable. But “we’re rapidly approaching that point,” Hewlett said. When it arrives, people with […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — For nurse Marta Fernández, the fall resurgence of COVID-19 in Spain has been less traumatic in medical terms than during the initial spring outbreak. But seeing her patients die in the Barcelona hospital where she works, without visits from family or friends, forced into grim solitude […]
The Oregon State Hospital didn’t have a patient test positive for coronavirus until eight months into the pandemic. But some staff members are concerned that administrators still don’t have a plan, nor enough staff, to handle a COVID-19 outbreak at the psychiatric facility. Union leaders from the state hospital sent […]
“We’re in a position potentially to be able to offer some hope,” said Bill Gruber, Pfizer’s senior vice president of clinical development. “We’re very encouraged.” Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top-infectious disease expert, said the results suggesting 90 percent effectiveness are “just extraordinary,” adding: “Not very many people expected it […]
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CLOSE An inpatient rehab unit at Froedtert Hospital where patients go to recover from strokes, hip replacements, and other injuries, ailments and surgeries has been hit by a COVID-19 outbreak sickening at least 15 people as of Friday — including staff and patients. The hospital in Wauwatosa tested the entire unit for […]
For the second time, a study testing an experimental antibody drug for COVID-19 has been paused to investigate a possible safety issue By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer October 30, 2020, 4:27 PM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article For the second time, a […]
Oct. 30 (UPI) — Nearly one-third of skilled nursing facilities situated in COVID-19 hot spots across the United States still are waiting three days or more for virus test results for staff and residents as of the end of September, according to a report published Friday by JAMA Internal Medicine. […]
“I went through the CDC data, because I kept hearing about new infections, but I was like, ‘Why aren’t they talking about deaths?’ ” Trump Jr. said. “Oh, because the number is almost nothing. Because we’ve gotten control of this thing, we understand how it works. They have the therapeutics […]
The West Texas city of El Paso, which is seeing facilities hard-pressed to handle the fast-rising number of coronavirus cases, is preparing to open its civic center for additional beds and add a fourth mobile morgue. © Go Nakamura/Getty Images HOUSTON, TX – OCTOBER 31: A medical staff member grabs […]
While the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a number of pre-existing challenges in delivering diabetes care in the NHS, some of the innovative approaches taken to continue patient management during the pandemic need to be retained to improve ongoing care, say UK experts. The research was presented during the Diabetes UK […]