A wave of departing medical professionals in rural areas threatens to leave gaping holes in these health care systems and local economies, and trigger a death spiral of that may be hard to stop.
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The head of drugmaker AstraZeneca, which is developing a coronavirus vaccine widely expected to be approved by U.K. authorities this week, said Sunday that researchers believe the shot will be effective against a new variant of the virus driving a rapid surge in infections in Britain. AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot also told the Sunday […]
San Diego County public health officials have reported 3,132 new COVID-19 infections — the 27th consecutive day with more than 1,000 cases.
Total novel coronavirus cases in the United States soared past 19 million Sunday, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.
Tips on how to stay positive through winter 2020-21 – in the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WCHS/WVAH) — Kentucky added more than 1,500 new COVID-19 cases Sunday along with 21 deaths. The new deaths push the state’s total from the virus to 2,555, according to a Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services. The state added 1,509 positive cases Sunday. There are currently 1,504 people hospitalized with the coronavirus, including 411 in intensive care and 217 people on ventilators. The average positive test rate Sunday was 8. 06%.
Hospital autopsies have informed medicine for centuries — most recently helping to reveal the extent of the opioid epidemic, improve cancer care and demystify AIDS and anthrax. But they’ve lost stature over the years as the medical world instead turned to lab tests and imaging scans.
The Iowa Department of Public Health on Friday reported 5 new COVID-19-related deaths and 1,570 new cases on Christmas Day
The first case of Covid-19 in the United States was reported 11 months ago, on January 20, 2020. Since that time, more than 18 million Americans have been diagnosed and more than 329,000 have died, writes Kent Sepkowitz.
Five more people were added Friday to the number of those who have died due to COVID-19, according to the latest numbers from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.