Month: April 2020

In a stirring, ragged ritual, the students took their oaths as new doctors early, volunteering in the war against Covid-19. View original article Contributor:

A senior White House official warned President Trump in January that a pandemic would cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars. Mr. Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, asked the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, to fill in “where necessary.” View original article Contributor:

If there was one glimmer of hope among the alarming number of cases of COVID-19 in the past few months, it was that young children seemed to avoid more serious illness. That trend, which doctors in China first reported, seems to be holding true in the U.S. as well. In the latest Morbidity and Mortality … Read more

A mechanical ventilator can cost a hospital tens of thousands of dollars up front, and even more money each day it’s used to keep oxygen flowing into a sick patient’s lungs. It’s unsurprising, then, that some small U.S. hospitals can count theirs on one hand. There are about 160,000 ventilators in use in hospitals nationwide—about … Read more

Leo Varadkar, the Irish Prime Minister, has rejoined the country’s medical register and will begin working one shift a week, as the country grapples with a growing COVID-19 outbreak. The Health Service Executive (HSE), the country’s health and social service provider, appealed to all non-working healthcare professionals on March 17 to “be on call for … Read more

In late March, Leah Coplon, the program director at Maine Family Planning, watched as a young mother parked her car in front of the building. Carrying her baby, the mother was greeted by staff in the foyer and handed a brown paper bag that looked like a lunch sack. Then she loaded the bag and … Read more

The glimmer of potential good news came on the same day New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said his state may already be experiencing a “flattening of the curve.” But experts cautioned against vesting too much confidence in any single model or data point. View original article Contributor: William Wan

In its first report analyzing the virus’s effect on American children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that pediatric cases accounted for just under 2 percent of confirmed U.S. cases. View original article Contributor: Brittany Shammas

In a stirring, ragged ritual, the students took their oaths as new doctors early, volunteering in the war against Covid-19. View original article Contributor: