Characteristics of COVID-19 in Homeless Shelters
Homeless shelters are a high-risk setting for SARS-CoV-2 transmission because of crowding and...
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Red Blood Cell Distribution Width Predicts Covid-19 Death
Elevated RDW linked to significantly higher mortality risk Elevated red blood cell distribution...
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J&J COVID-19 Vaccine Begins Final Stage of Clinical Trials
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The final stage of clinical trials for Johnson...
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AKI Occurs in 7 Percent of Those Hospitalized With COVID-19
TUESDAY, Sept. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs in 7 percent of...
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Rates of COVID-19 Infection Higher in Blacks, Hispanics
TUESDAY, Sept. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Black and Hispanic individuals are experiencing...
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Study Examines Effect of Cancer Treatment on COVID-19 Mortality
TUESDAY, Sept. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Cancer patients treated one to three months prior...
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Cutaneous Lesions And Skin Symptoms Associated With Covid-19
Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus. It appeared first in China and...
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More Than Half of Pregnant Women With COVID-19 Asymptomatic
FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) — More than half of hospitalized pregnant women with...
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Lower Proportion of Inpatients With COVID-19 Wear Glasses
FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The proportion of inpatients with COVID-19 who...
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Details Emerge on Unexplained Illness in AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
(HealthDay News) — New details surfaced on Thursday on an unexplained neurological condition...
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Drug May Reduce Need for Ventilators in COVID-19 Patients
FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) — An inflammation-fighting medicine was associated...
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CDC: Adult Obesity Increasing, Tied to Worse COVID-19 Outcomes
FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Adult obesity is increasing, with considerable...
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Tough to Tell COVID From Smoke Inhalation Symptoms — And Flu Season’s Coming
Respiratory symptoms stemming from coronavirus infection and smoke inhalation are too similar to distinguish without a full workup. This is complicating the jobs of health care workers as wildfires rage up and down the West Coast.
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COVID Vaccine Trials Move at Warp Speed, But Recruiting Black Volunteers Takes Time
The National Institutes of Health has suggested minorities should be overrepresented in COVID-19 vaccine trials — perhaps at rates that are double their percentage of the U.S. population. But efforts to recruit patients from racial minority groups are just beginning, while some trials have already advanced to phase 3.
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Covid-19: CDC Revises Airline Passenger Rules
Focus will be on individual passengers and ’robust illness response’ WASHINGTON — The United...
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Baricitinib May Shorten Recovery Time in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Using an anti-inflammatory medicine along with the...
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Effectiveness of Inhaled COVID-19 Vaccines to Be Studied
MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) — A study to assess the effectiveness of two...
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AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Restarts
MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Oxford University has announced that final-stage...
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NIH Launches Clinical Trials of Antithrombotics for COVID-19
MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Two of three planned adaptive phase 3 clinical...
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CDC: Nearly 800 U.S. Children Have Developed COVID-19-Related Condition
THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — There have been 792 confirmed cases in the...
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