Get the latest on coronavirus. Sign up to the Daily Brief for news, explainers, how-tos, opinion and more. If you’re over the age of 70, are pregnant, or have underlying health conditions, then it’s been drummed into you for weeks that you are the most at risk from coronavirus. But as the death toll across the globe […]
As many as a third of coronavirus patients may be Black or Asian, nearly three times the 13% proportion of the UK population that they make up. Some 14% of those with the most serious cases were Black and the same amount were Asian, according to the research, sparking calls for further probes into structural inequality […]
Over the past few weeks of social distancing, I’ve lost a lot of motivation to do, well, most things. It feels like I’m barely functioning and just trying to make it through the day. I wake up to articles with distressing headlines and see the same content recirculated on Instagram, but in bigger fonts. The […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ― The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed from its website highly unusual guidance informing doctors on how to prescribe hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs recommended by President Donald Trump to treat the coronavirus. The move comes three days after Reuters reported that the CDC published key dosing information involving the […]
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If you’re standing in Germany, the coronavirus pandemic might look a little bit less overwhelming than if you’re standing in, say, Italy or the United States. Germany’s coronavirus mortality rate is among the lowest in the world ― 1.4% as of Saturday ― while Italy’s is a shocking 9.4% and the U.S. is standing at […]
A parallel COVID-19 strategy run by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner has sucked valuable time from health experts scrambling to respond to the surging pandemic and save lives, sources have told The Washington Post. Comments and requests from President Donald Trump’s son-in-law that task force members felt compelled to respond to — no matter how […]
It is “inevitable” more health workers will die from coronavirus, the UK’s largest nursing union has said. Theresa Fyffe, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Scotland, was speaking after the deaths of nurses Aimee O’Rourke and Areema Nasreen, who had both tested positive for the virus. She said the circumstances of both deaths […]
Grateful but frustrated singer Pink revealed Friday that she recently tested positive for coronavirus — and finally got the all clear just days ago. But Pink — Alecia Moore — is appalled that the test she had access to isn’t widely available — and is donating $ 1 million to two emergency funds to “support the […]
A Delta Air Lines executive directed pilots who test positive for the coronavirus withhold the diagnosis from flight attendants and other colleagues, according to video of an internal discussion among leaders of the pilots’ union. In the nine-minute video, which appears to have been recorded in secret and posted Thursday to YouTube, a union representative […]
Dr. Rishi Desai, who became a social media sensation after delivering a blunt analysis of the “weak” U.S. response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic during a Fox News appearance this week, says he believes he has or had the infection. He told the Bay Area News Group that he’s had a 101 fever, coughing and breathing […]
It was the best birthday gift a 104-year-old could ask for: recovery from the coronavirus. When William “Bill” Lapschies of Portland, Oregon, was diagnosed with COVID-19 last month, his family feared the World War II vet might not live to reach the milestone birthday. Lapschies, who lives in an assisted living facility, was one of […]
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