Monthly Archives: April, 2020

North Texas has more than 6,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. Four out of five deaths reported Friday occurred at long-term care facilities, Dallas County health officials announced.  The patients were ill at local hospitals before dying from complications related to COVID-19, officials said.  The victims are a man and woman in their 80s…

The novel coronavirus in Sweden has spread to over 17,500 people and killed more than 2,100, as of Friday, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. While cases continue to grow, the country has taken the surprising route of not imposing a nationwide lockdown.Despite international derision over the decision, the scientist behind Sweden's…

10 ReferencesArticleTraditional infection-control and public health strategies rely heavily on early detection of disease to contain spread. When Covid-19 burst onto the global scene, public health officials initially deployed interventions that were used to control severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, including symptom-based case detection and subsequent testing to guide isolation and quarantine. This…

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President Trump has previously suggested that a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin may help in the fight against the virus — but the Food and Drug Administration has strongly warned against taking hydroxychloroquine without medical monitoring. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images President Trump has previously suggested…