Medical
Seven more COVID-19 related deaths confirmed in Ottawa, 44 new cases
In western Quebec, health officials reported 14 new cases Monday, bringing the total in Gatineau and surrounding areas to 266. All residents and staff at nine long-term care homes in Ottawa were tested for COVID-19 over the weekend as the province expands surveillance testing in facilities across Ontario. [Full Article...]
Quest Diagnostics rolls out direct-to-consumer coronavirus antibody tests
Jay Wohlgemuth, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Quest Diagnostics, in a statement . The test, which costs $119, is available through Quest's direct-to-consumer business and can be purchased at GetQuestTest.com. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, it is not yet known whether the development of antibodies provides protection from reinfection nor how long such... [Full Article...]
U.S. coronavirus deaths top Vietnam War toll: tracker
The earliest recorded death from COVID-19 in the US resulted from a cardiac rupture caused by coronavirus infection, an autopsy report obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle showed. Ms Dowd's husband requested the autopsy as his wife was in overall good health and exercised regularly before becoming unwell. "She was always doing some kind of aerobics". [Full Article...]
Medical Staff At Max Hospital In Delhi Found Infected With COVID-19
Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital in Jahangirpuri area of Delhi area has been sealed as the hospital is being sanitised. However, unidentified officials told IANS that 58 employees, including doctors and nurses, had tested positive, and 70% were asymptomatic. [Full Article...]
Positive cases reported near 1000
Twenty-eight deaths were newly-reported, for a total of 813 Hoosier deaths. Eighty-eight of those deaths were "presumptive positive" deaths. To date, 81,708 tests have been reported to ISDH, up from 79,774 on Saturday. As of Tuesday's report, Cass County has 1,101 cases. The additional cases bring to 15,961 the total number of IN residents known to have the virus following corrections to yeste... [Full Article...]
Alberta reports 216 more COVID-19 cases, one more death
Tuesday. Currently, 83 people are in hospital, including 20 people being treated within intensive care units. The provincial government also states 1,549 confirmed cases have since recovered from their illness. No new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the AHS Central zone and the single case in the MD of Wainwright is now considered recovered. In addition, Bearspaw First Nation has con... [Full Article...]
What coronavirus antibody tests tell us - and what they don't
The idea of issuing immunity passports has become popular in recent months, as governments are making major efforts to restart their paralysed economies. The possibility that the test results were false is also not excluded. The tests detect antibodies, proteins made by the immune system to fight infection (SN: 3/27/20). [Full Article...]
Oxford researchers have reportedly received promising news about their coronavirus vaccine
The Oxford project was the first among dozens of vaccine efforts under way around the world to have started a relatively large trial. The Oxford team is not the only group that is seeing progress with coronavirus vaccines based on genetics. [Full Article...]