At least 2,200 residents of nursing homes across New York State have now died from COVID-19, a jump of nearly 1,000 fatalities in the span of just five days, according to data provided by the New York State Department of Health.
But like other official morta…
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Lack Of Testing Obscures True Scale Of Coronavirus Impact On NY Nursing Homes
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Table 1. Study Participants in Targeted Testing or Population Screening for SARS-CoV-2, According to Timing.Figure 2.
Figure 2. Distribution of Targeted Testing and Population Screening for SARS-CoV-2 and Percentages of Posi…
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Woman dies from coronavirus at Boise skilled care facility; 14 others also test positive
Woman dies from coronavirus at Boise skilled care facility; 14 others also test positive – Idaho News
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Woman in 20s tests positive for COVID-19 in Willacy County
Willacy County confirmed a sixth case of COVID-19 on Tuesday afternoon.
The Texas Department of State Health Services said in a news release that the woman is in her 20s and her case is linked to an existing case in Willacy County.
She is isolating.
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CHRISTUS Health now offering rapid COVID-19 antibodies test at Houston locations
- The tests can produce results in approximately ten minutes and could be a game-changer in helping battle the pandemic and restart the economy. (File photo)
The tests can produce results in approximately ten minutes and could be a game-changer in help…
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Coronavirus: Orange County has 23 new cases reported on April 14
The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 1,299 confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Monday, April 14.
Another 802 people had been tested according to the countys latest update, bringing the total number of tests in the county to 14,977 that works ou…
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Coronavirus: Intermittent social distancing needed for two years, says Harvard study
As Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials plan to ease strict stay-at-home orders, a major new study delivers sobering news: Unless hospitals boost capacity, or a treatment or vaccine is developed, a strategy of prolonged or intermittent social distancing may …
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Louisiana state epidemiologist dies; he guided state through West Nile, H1N1, more
Dr. Raoult Ratard, Louisiana’s state epidemiologist who’d spent more than two decades working in public health, died Monday morning in the midst of the worst epidemic to hit Louisiana in decades.
Ratard worked for the state’s Office of Public Health for 26 y…
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St. Luke’s Phillipsburg patient off ventilator after experimental COVID-19 plasma trial
A COVID-19 patient at St. Lukes Hospital in Phillipsburg was taken off a ventilator following an experimental blood plasma treatment.
Convalescent plasma, in this case plasma from survivors of COVID-19, is being used to treat seriously ill coronavirus patien…
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