COVID patients have been commingled with uninfected patients in California, Florida, New Jersey, Iowa, Ohio, Maryland, New York and beyond. While officials have penalized nursing homes for such failures, hospitals have seen less scrutiny.
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MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) — For the first time in six months, Canada on Friday...
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The county, a hotbed of coronavirus infection in California, has seen a steady reduction in positive test results, new cases, hospitalizations and deaths over the past few weeks. But officials are concerned about public behavior over the Labor Day holiday weekend and wary of relaxing strictures too soon.
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The FDA, under pressure from the Trump administration, has authorized broader use of convalescent plasma for emergency treatment in COVID patients. But several major hospitals are resisting, saying they’ll opt instead to use the scarce resource to complete a clinical trial.
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The nation’s top infectious disease official is confident that an independent panel will base vaccine approval on science, not politics.
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The following was originally posted at becomebraveenough.com. The media right now is...
Read MoreEarly in the pandemic, Trump feuded with governors over whose responsibility it was to secure supplies and states sometimes found themselves competing with each other and the federal government for scarce personal protective equipment and testing materials.
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Madera calls for cooperation in instilling vaccine confidence CHICAGO — The American Medical...
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Despite the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) kits, frontline healthcare workers in...
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AMA calls change a ’recipe for community spread’ The CDC has changed its Covid-19 testing...
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Advocates of cheap and widely available vaccines thought the pandemic might change business as usual. They were wrong.
Read MoreExperts say the administration’s approach with antigen tests could add cost and risk for the most vulnerable patients.
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New York’s governor directed nursing homes to take COVID patients. But is it fair to say he “forced” them to do so, or that his directive led to the deaths of thousands of elderly residents? Most public health experts say no.
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As the nation hollowed out its public health infrastructure for decades, staffing and funding fell faster and further in Florida. Then the coronavirus ran roughshod, infecting more than half a million people and killing thousands.
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Although it is still early, available numbers provide backup.
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In some states, bars and taverns have brought legal challenges to the coronavirus restrictions that have slowed sales and business.
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HHS Says labs cleared to developed coronavirus tests, Orleandrin touted by MyPillow guy. Recent...
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The latest installment of the #PWChat series was Part 2 of our discussion centering around the...
Read MoreA case study of COVID-19 testing in Sacramento, California, shows that bottlenecks in the testing supply chain this summer limited people’s access to tests and dramatically delayed results. Similar scenarios played out in communities across the country.
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Doc organization demands action on virtual learning disparities, calls for ’layered’ approach to...
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