Medical
Family's surprise party photo before 18 people diagnosed with virus
Mr Barbosa, a volunteer paramedic who is married to a doctor, didn't attend the event but described it as taking only a "couple of hours" before 18 people had been infected. Frank received a plasma donation from a recovered coronavirus patient Wednesday, according to Barbosa's Facebook page, which the family is hoping will bring some good news and progress. [Full Article...]
CDC marks end of 2018 Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo
As that outbreak neared its end, another one was declared on June 1 in the western city of Mbandaka, more than 1,000 kilometres away. "It wasn't easy and at times it seemed like mission impossible", said Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization's Africa regional director. [Full Article...]
Trump admin asks SC to invalidate ObamaCare
Filing a brief late Thursday in a case the court is set to hear around the time of the November election, the administration said "the entire ACA thus must fall" because of a tax law change made by the Republican-controlled Congress in 2017. [Full Article...]
MN inmate dies after testing COVID-19 positive
The seven-day average positivity rate is 3 percent. "We're working to take into account these disparities and concerns in our testing strategies and our overall response". She went on to say, "If it's possible for you to socialize with the. small group that's important to you and you can do that in a setting in which you're able to fully socially distance. [Full Article...]
USA coronavirus deaths projected to reach 180,000 by October
The new forecast was issued just hours after the governors of New York, New Jersey and CT said they would require visitors from nine other states with higher rates of coronavirus infections to quarantine for two weeks on arrival. Earlier in the day, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said the tough new tri-state quarantine mandate was "the smart thing to do" after the United States as a whole recorde... [Full Article...]
Texas pauses coronavirus reopening as cases spike
On Monday, Abbott addressed the state's surge in coronavirus cases, outlining a way for residents to combat the increase "without having to return to stay-at-home policies". Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine (NSTM) at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, warns if Texas' current trajectory continues, Houston could be the hardest-hit city in the US with numbers ... [Full Article...]
Caution urged over reliance on Covid-19 antibody testing
Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, who has been overseeing the government's antibody testing validation and strategy, said: "We've really set the gold standard in what you need to expect from these tests and I suspect a lot of people will be really interested in what we have produced in the last couple of months". [Full Article...]
COVID-19: Health officials announce 20 new cases, 2 new deaths
Bonnie Henry said at Thursday's daily update with Health Minister Adrian Dix. Deaths in B.C. from COVID-19 total 173, while the recovery rate continues to hover around 87 per cent. "I really just want to commend everybody for persevering, for working together, for making in-class teaching in these past weeks both possible and safe". [Full Article...]