Monthly Archives: April, 2020

President Trump on Friday signed into law a $484 billion economic rescue package that includes billions of additional dollars for small businesses, hospitals, and testing amid the coronavirus pandemic. The package includes more than $300 billion for a small business lending program designed to help companies avoid layoffs, $60 billion for disaster grants and loans,…

Italy’s first coronavirus patient traveled from Wuhan, China, to Italy in late January and was admitted to the hospital with coronavirus symptoms days later. A recently published report shows that she had detectable traces of the virus in her eyes days after it had cleared from her nose.The report demonstrates that the novel coronavirus can…

Doctors say an experimental treatment using blood plasma does work and helped save the life of a coronavirus patient near death.The male patient had been on a ventilator at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was only getting worse.The hospital had just received its first batch of blood plasma from a recovered coronavirus…

Supplements containing vitamins C and D, along with other micronutrients, can be a “safe, effective and low-cost” means to fight off the novel coronavirus and other acute respiratory tract diseases, according to an Oregon State University researcher.Adrian Gombart of OSU’s Linus Pauling Institute, along with his collaborators at universities across the world, said public health…

More than 50,000 people in the United States have died of COVID-19, a grim milestone in a global pandemic that shows few signs of slowing even as pressure mounts to reopen parts of the U.S. economy.The death toll is 16 times greater than the number of Americans who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks and…