Month: March 2020

Artists, both professional and otherwise, can submit their photos on Instagram using the hashtag #ICPConcerned. View original article Contributor:

The advice from public health officials has been confusing, leaving us to decide whether a D.I.Y. mask is better than nothing. View original article Contributor:

How caregivers can use technology to help older people minimize going to the doctor during this pandemic. View original article Contributor:

Decades of isolation and international sanctions have ravaged North Korea’s public health system, raising fears about its ability to confront an outbreak. View original article Contributor:

Before this 60,000-year-old submerged forest disappears, scientists recently raced to search for shipworms and other sea life that might conceal medicine of the future. View original article Contributor:

Dr. Laura Mulvey, 33, practices emergency medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. After spending six days receiving treatment in her own hospital, she is now recovering at home from what is presumed to be COVID-19, though her test was inconclusive. What follows is a lightly-edited transcript of her story as told to … Read more

(HAMBURG, Pa.) — The spring breezes of 2020 are carrying more than just tree pollen. There’s a whiff of paranoia in the air. For millions of seasonal allergy sufferers, the annual onset of watery eyes and scratchy throats is bumping up against the global spread of a new virus that produces its own constellation of … Read more

With more than 63,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of March 30, Germany is one of the countries worst-affected by the pandemic, according to official statistics. But only 560 people known to be suffering from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus have died there, putting Germany’s case fatality rate at just 0.9%. That gives … Read more

There is perhaps nothing that exemplifies the sheer magnitude of deaths due to COVID-19 than public health officials’ decision last week to turn a Madrid ice rink into a morgue. They did this, they said, to help families, as funeral parlors no longer felt safe collecting bodies and existing morgues were at capacity. In Italy, … Read more

The move would stress that medical masks be left for health-care workers. View original article Contributor: Joel Achenbach