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OU Medicine Announces New Clinical Trial to Treat COVID-19 Patients
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...]
Delta County announces first death associated with COVID-19
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...]
Another delay for cruise ships
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...]
Malaria Drug Chloroquine Trial for Coronavirus Paused After Patients Show Side Effects
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...]
28 further deaths, 500 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Ireland
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...]
Toronto just recalled more than 62,000 faulty masks from long-term care homes
Eileen de Villa made the announcement during a news conference at Toronto city hall Wednesday afternoon, noting there were still four more deaths of residents being investigated. Mayor John Tory said the city is now doing rigorous quality-control testing on personal protective equipment supplies. "The City of Toronto discovered yesterday that a recently-purchased order of more than $200,000 wo... [Full Article...]
Wyomingites encouraged to wear masks
COVID-19 | Kerala keeps plasma therapy option open
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...]