Medical
State will spend almost $1 billion to purchase up to 200 million masks a month — Newsom
The rate of all hospitalizations has also gone down this week and Gov. Newsom said two-thirds of California's 11,000 ventilators are not being used. He went on to say the state's hospitals have thousands of ventilators available should the number of the sickest patients suddenly surge. [Full Article...]
M&S donates uniform to NHS Nightingale staff
Work has been carried out to convert the site, which had been built for the motor industry and is close to the Nissan plant, into a hospital which will take coronavirus patients if units in the region can not cope with demand. Another Nightingale Hospital is being built in an industrial unit in Washington, Tyne and Wear. The site, owned by Sunderland City Council, close to the A19, will be divid... [Full Article...]
Scientist Reveals When Coronavirus Vaccine Will Be Ready
Visit the BGR home page for more stories . Dean and his team had received a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a vaccine for human rotavirus, which, like the coronavirus , targets mucous membranes. Almost 10,000 people have died from coronavirus in the United Kingdom to date, and the country's chief scientific expert, Patrick Vallance, has warned that the n... [Full Article...]
Los Angeles County Extends Their Stay-at-Home Order Until May 15
County, including 241 deaths. As of Friday, 2,043 people who tested positive for COVID-19 (24 percent of positive cases) have been hospitalized at some point during their illness. "Moreover, there remains substantial risk that the need for hospital-based services will exceed the system capacity - even by large margins - if there is any reduction in our physical-distancing behavior and other publ... [Full Article...]
Sanofi : to Donate Supplies of Drug Touted as Potential Coronavirus Treatment
Trump pointed to a France study as reason for his optimism for the drug cocktail, but its publisher later said the study " does not meet the Society's expected standard ". According to a report in The Hill, the first participants have enrolled in the trial at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. [Full Article...]
Fifth Covid-19 death in New Zealand
Dr Bloomfield had no further details on the two new clusters. New Zealand said on Saturday there had been two new deaths due to the coronavirus - its biggest daily total to date despite the low number and bringing the total to four in a country that's halfway through a four-week nationwide lockdown. [Full Article...]
IU Health Asking COVID-19 Survivors To Donate Plasma
The State's first COVID-19 patient from Thangmeiband who has now fully recovered was discharged from JNIMS today. Plasma from survivors of an infectious disease, called convalescent plasma, can be used for seriously ill coronavirus patients, especially those with a suppressed immune system, to boost their antibodies and help stimulate recovery, Kuttner said. [Full Article...]
Child care centres temporarily prevented from charging parents fees
An emergency order issued Friday prevents child-care operators from charging parents fees while care is not being provided. "If this can be a source of financial or even mental relief for those working hard during this outbreak, it is the least we can provide". [Full Article...]