Month: May 2020

States might be starting to reopen businesses, but the U.S must prepare for the spread of COVID-19 to pick up this fall, Dr. Leana Wen and Dr. Scott Gottlieb said during a segment of the TIME100: Finding Hope series on Thursday. In conversation TIME Magazine senior health reporter Alice Park, Wen, an emergency physician, visiting … Read more

On May 1, the U.S Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency-use authorization of remdesivir, an experimental anti-viral drug. With this clearance, doctors in the U.S. are now allowed to use the drug to treat patients with severe cases of COVID-19. Remdesivir isn’t new. It was initially developed to treat Ebola and was also tested … Read more

Dr. George Diaz was at home in Edmonds, Wash., on Jan. 20 at 8:30 p.m., when his phone rang with news that he was both anticipating and dreading. On the line was his hospital’s infection-prevention manager, who had just received a call from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency wanted … Read more

Researchers found blood clots and vessel damage in the autopsied lungs of people killed by the disease. View original article Contributor: Lenny Bernstein

Person-to-person spread is the primary source of transmission. View original article Contributor: Ben Guarino

While the number of cases is extremely small, a University of California-San Diego professor is urging health officials to expand alerts about the mysterious illness previously seen only in children. View original article Contributor: Ariana Eunjung Cha