Most of the 48 I.C.U. patients studied had pre-existing medical conditions, including two who died. Eighteen of the children were put on ventilators.Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, which treated pediatric Covid-19 cases in late March and early April.Credit...Marshall Rimmer/AlamyMay 11, 2020, 11:12 a.m. ETAs concern grows over the potential for children to become seriously ill…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced a plan Wednesday to start paying hospitals and doctors who care for uninsured patients with COVID-19, but Democratic lawmakers and health industry groups are likely to press for more.Under the approach detailed by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, hospitals and doctors would submit their bills directly…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Dr. Marc Siegel told “Outnumbered’ on Wednesday that while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the coronavirus will have a second wave later in the year, the “good news” is that the United States is seeing “flattening…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…