Dr. Ryan Southworth, an emergency medicine physician in Casa Grande, Ariz., posted a YouTube video viewed more than 5 million times since March 22 showing a tight-fitting homemade mask sewed by his wife out of a vacuum bag. Cloth masks are not regulated so the protection offered will vary by mask. This request comes after the Center of Disease Control and Prevention's recent recommendation t... [Full Article...]
The effort, in partnership with Williamson Medical Center, is in response to an investigational FDA treatment therapy called convalescent plasma, which uses the plasma from completely recovered patients to help treat critical COVID-19 cases. [Full Article...]
The remaining 29 deaths occurred in March, including one on March 5. There are 15 hospital employees with COVID-19 . In a tweet, the Person County Public Health Department confirmed an eighth case of the illness that is caused by the coronavirus. [Full Article...]
The first order was issued on March 14. This order effectively ends cruising within US-jurisdiction waters until at least mid-July, unless Washington declares before then that coronavirus no longer constitutes a public health emergency, or the CDC itself rescinds or modifies the ruling. [Full Article...]
The trial , expected to involve 510 patients, is estimated to be completed on July 2021. However, the said potential drug for coronavirus shows a different story in Sweden as several hospitals in the country pulled out the medication after some patients have shown the side effects after taking it. [Full Article...]
The breakdown also shows that 15 were females and 13 males. There have now been 317 clusters of the infection so far, accounting for 1,391 individual cases and that health care workers account for 27% of cases. ยท Of those for whom transmission status is known: community transmission accounts for 66%, close contact accounts for 24%, travel overseas accounts for 9%. [Full Article...]
But a lot of people still have questions. He said many mask-wearers may feel a "false sense of security" and can easily end up transferring any virus droplets on the surface of their mask onto their hands or the surfaces in their home when they take off the mask. [Full Article...]
Plasma therapy refers to using treated blood plasma of individuals who have recovered from the disease, for the antibodies they have developed against the novel coronavirus . She works as a gynecologic oncologist and knows how important blood donations are. "And since we don't have a medication against this virus and since we don't have a vaccine yet, the antibodies from my plasma should be able... [Full Article...]