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How Colleges Became the New Covid Hot Spots

Sat, 2020-09-12 11:19 — mike kraft

...Across the country, college students' mounting coronavirus outbreaks have become an urgent public health issue. Of the 25 hottest outbreaks in the U.S., communities heavy with college students represent 19 of them...

It began last month with a trickle of coronavirus infections as college students arrived for the fall semester. Soon that trickle became a stream, with campuses reporting dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of new cases each day.

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Study: Kids infected at day care spread coronavirus at home

Fri, 2020-09-11 18:42 — mike kraft

Study: Kids infected at day care spread coronavirus at home NEW YORK (AP) — Children who caught the coronavirus at day cares and a day camp spread it to their relatives, according to a new report that underscores that kids can bring the germ home and... AP NEWS

NEW YORK (AP) — Children who caught the coronavirus at day cares and a day camp spread it to their relatives, according to a new report that underscores that kids can bring the germ home and infect others.

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U.S. hospitals turn down remdesivir, limit use to sickest COVID-19 patients --Reuters

Fri, 2020-09-11 18:00 — mike kraft

Exclusive: U.S. hospitals turn down remdesivir, limit use to sickest COVID-19 patients U.S. hospitals have turned down about a third of their allocated supplies of the COVID-19 drug remdesivir since July as need for the costly antiviral wanes, according to unpublished government statistics provided to Reuters by a U.S. pharmacists' group. Deena Beasley U.S.

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Americans need to "Hunker down as the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to worsen soon -- Fauci

Fri, 2020-09-11 11:29 — mike kraft

Americans need to 'hunker down' this fall and winter as Covid-19 pandemic will likely worsen, Fauci says Nearly 30 US states are reporting downward trends in Covid-19 cases, but the pandemic will likely worsen again, according to the country's leading infectious disease expert. Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN

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Seeking the causes of post-Covid symptoms, researchers dust off data on college students with mononucleosis

Fri, 2020-09-11 10:16 — mike kraft

Seeking causes of post-Covid symptoms in study of college kids - STAT Post-viral symptoms, such as persistent aches and fatigue after a bout of influenza, are a common but poorly understood phenomenon. Gideon Gil STAT

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How One Hospital Kept COVID Transmissions at Nearly Zero

Fri, 2020-09-11 09:51 — mike kraft

How One Hospital Kept COVID Transmissions at Nearly Zero US News is a recognized leader in college, grad school, hospital, mutual fund, and car rankings. Track elected officials, research health conditions, and find news you can use in politics, business, health, and education. HealthDay US News & World Report

THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Infection control measures implemented in response to the coronavirus pandemic kept transmission of the virus to patients within a Boston hospital at nearly zero, according to a new study.

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The FDA's new app for frontline doctors could help discover Covid-19 treatments faster

Fri, 2020-09-11 09:13 — mike kraft

The FDA's new app for frontline doctors could help discover Covid-19 treatments faster The Food and Drug Administration's Cure ID app is allowing doctors to communicate about drug therapies. The plan is to more quickly find new uses for old drugs to combat difficult-to-treat diseases like Covid-19. Ryan Prior, CNN CNN

(CNN)In the trenches of the fight against coronavirus, Dr. Raghav Tirupathi often has little time to think and no textbook to follow while treating patients with Covid-19.

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The Other Way Covid Will Kill: Hunger

Fri, 2020-09-11 09:04 — mike kraft

...As the global economy absorbs the most punishing reversal of fortunes since the Great Depression, hunger is on the rise. Those confronting potentially life-threatening levels of so-called food insecurity in the developing world are expected to nearly double this year to 265 million, according to the United Nations World Food Program.

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U.S. needs 193 million Covid-19 tests per month to reopen schools and keep up with pandemic, new report says

Thu, 2020-09-10 18:51 — mike kraft

U.S. needs 193 million Covid-19 tests per month, report says The U.S. may need 193 million coronavirus tests each month in order to safely re-open schools and fortify nursing homes, the report said. Kate Sheridan STAT

The U.S. may need up to 193 million coronavirus tests each month in order to safely reopen schools and fortify nursing homes, according to a new report published Wednesday. Current testing capacity in the U.S. is about 21 million tests per month, according to the Covid Tracking Project.

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