Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Officials Address Nation’s Ventilator Supply Shortage
Patients who become seriously ill after contracting COVID-19 may need these machines, but healthcare facilities worry there are not enough to go around.
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Professional Groups Send Lawmakers List of COVID-19 Needs
As Congress debates various relief packages, healthcare advocates try to ensure the feds give frontline providers what they need.
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FDA, U.S. Labs Team Up on COVID-19 Testing
Officials race against the clock to rapidly close the gap on kit shortages.
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Trump Uses Defense Production Act to Speed Medical Supply Production
Administration invokes Cold War-era authorization to allow American industry to close gap on shortages.
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Questions: COVID-19 Mortality, Conspiracy Theories, and the Mysterious Lack of Sick Children
Although there are variables by health status and age, the mortality of COVID-19 is about 10 times greater than a seasonal flu virus.
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CMS Drops Routine Surveys to Focus on COVID-19
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is suspending routine inspections to focus on issues related to infection control and COVID-19 in hospitals, nursing homes, and other accredited sites.
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Coronavirus Kills 32 Residents in Seattle Nursing Homes
COVID-19 infections at several long-term care facilities in the Seattle area have killed at least 32 elderly residents and infected two healthcare workers, the King County Health Department reported.
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CDC Broadens Testing to Include More Patients
As more COVID-19 tests become available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is broadening its criteria to test more symptomatic patients — regardless of travel history or a known exposure to another case.
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CDC Revises Guidelines as Coronavirus Spreads in U.S.
The containment phase of identifying and tracking contacts of individual COVID-19 cases is giving way to a broader social mitigation strategy as the outbreak increases in the United States.
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Orgs Say COVID-19 Patients With Heart Issues Should Remain on Prescribed Meds
Unless a physician recommends otherwise, ARBs and ACE inhibitors should continue for those with heart disease who contract the novel coronavirus.