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Remdesivir: US allows emergency use of experimental drug for coronavirus
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The Food and Drug Administration is moving at "lightning speed" to review data on Gilead Sciences Inc.'s experimental Covid-19 treatment remdesivir, Commissioner Stephen Hahn said, after encouraging results emerged from a key USA trial. [Full Article...]
Six New COVID-19 Symptoms Discovered by Scientists
They are part of the record of COVID-19 signs recognized by the US public well-being company early within the outbreak: fever, cough, and shortness of breath, or issue respiration. While the CDC provides guidance for who should be tested, these decisions are left up to state and local health departments and doctors. "Around 1 out of every five people who get COVID-19 becomes seriously ill and de... [Full Article...]
How are coronavirus deaths recorded in the UK?
Notifications about deaths must be sent to CQC without delay. PHE has now reported an additional 3,811 deaths since the start of the outbreak. Providers can notify CQC using the webform on the CQC Provider Portal or using the MS Word form on CQC's website and returning this via email. [Full Article...]
Sixth COVID-19 death in Saskatchewan; 11 new cases in northern community
Eleven of those new cases are from the La Loche area, adding to the 29 cases earlier attributed to the outbreak at the oilsands camp in northern Alberta. Schools in La Loche and work trailers will be provided anyone who needs help self-isolating, Moe said, with 65 spaces. "But they very well may be enhanced in some areas in and around La Loche". [Full Article...]
Almost 70 dead in 'horrific' outbreak at veterans' home
With limited staffing, workers were forced to routinely travel to other units in order to provide help, which caused the virus to spread at an extremely high rate, according to Joan Miller, a nurse at the home. The legal professional normal for Massachusetts, Maura Healey, stated she had launched an investigation to find out "what went wrong at this facility and determine if legal action is warran... [Full Article...]
Gov. Cuomo, Bloomberg detail New York's contact tracing efforts
First, labs will report positive cases of COVID-19 immediately to contact tracers on a daily basis. The contact tracer will notify and interview each contact to alert them to their risk of infection and instruct those contacts to quarantine or isolate for 14 days to be sure they don't spread COVID-19 to others. [Full Article...]
Walz extends Minnesota stay-at-home order for 2 weeks
Walz says those businesses should offer curbside pick-up or delivery, continue following social distancing guidelines, and take online payment as often as possible. On Wednesday, he said Minnesota's COVID-19 response strategy is taking a little longer to execute, but that the state will be in a unique position given its hospital resources and its continuing buildup toward 20,000 molecular diagnost... [Full Article...]
Trump Threatens To End Daily White House Coronavirus Briefings Over "Hostile Questions"
This transpired days after his disastrous press briefing where he suggested using disinfectant and UV lights to directly treat coronavirus patients. Anthony Fauci. In a third of Trump's responses to questions from reporters (113 out of 346) he launched into attacks, while providing false or misleading information in nearly a quarter of his remarks. [Full Article...]