Tag: Health

A worker from a Servpro disaster recovery team wearing a protective suit and respirator peers out a window as he waits to exit the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash. for a break from cleaning the facility, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, near Seattle. The nursing home is at the center of the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Washington state.

Arizona may have to send coronavirus patients to other states amid ICU bed shortage

Spencer Neale · July 7, 2020 10:21 pm

Un trabajador mÃ©dico escribe en un tubo tras recoger una muestra de un paciente en un hotel utilizado para colocar a personas en cuarentena en Wuhan, en la provincia central de Hubei, China, el martes 4 de febrero de 2020.

Novavax awarded $1.6B to develop coronavirus vaccine in Operation Warp Speed deal

Spencer Neale · July 7, 2020 9:29 pm

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, March 30, 2020, in Washington.

Fauci warns against taking comfort in ‘false complacency’ of lower death rate

Anthony Leonardi · July 7, 2020 7:49 pm

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, March 30, 2020, in Washington.

‘Not good’: Fauci says US still ‘knee-deep in the first wave’ of coronavirus

Spencer Neale · July 7, 2020 12:28 am

OxyContin is Purdue's No.1 drug, although sales have decreased recently due to generics. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey).

Purdue Pharma co-owner Jonathan Sackler dead at 65

Spencer Neale · July 6, 2020 8:42 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2009 file photo, a general practitioner measures the blood pressure of a man at a surgery in Stuttgart, Germany. Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But more and more the world is grappling with the diseases and disabilities of modern life, according to the most expansive global look so far at life expectancy and the biggest health threats nation by nation. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File)

Suspected case of bubonic plague reported in China

Anthony Leonardi · July 6, 2020 2:34 pm

Philadelphia Medical Reserve Corps volunteer Emma Ewing, a sophomore at Temple University, directs cars at the city's coronavirus testing site next to Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia on Friday, March 20, 2020. The site, which opened Friday afternoon, is the first city-run drive-through location where people can be swabbed to determine if they have the coronavirus. At the time of opening, it was only for people with symptoms who are over 50 and healthcare workers with symptoms.

Coronavirus’s public health fear factor

Vik Khanna · July 5, 2020 4:00 am

Un trabajador mÃ©dico escribe en un tubo tras recoger una muestra de un paciente en un hotel utilizado para colocar a personas en cuarentena en Wuhan, en la provincia central de Hubei, China, el martes 4 de febrero de 2020.

Daily coronavirus cases in US top 50,000 in new record

Mike Brest · July 2, 2020 11:28 am

Data from the Covid Tracking Project.

Beltway Confidential

No second wave, just a differently timed wave rippling through a huge country

Timothy P. Carney · July 1, 2020 4:49 pm

Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

Worldwide coronavirus death toll surpasses 500,000 as cases top 10M

Carlin Becker · June 28, 2020 10:10 pm

American Academy of Pediatrics recommends schools reopen with ‘goal of having students physically present’

Madison Dibble · June 28, 2020 5:27 pm

Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

ICU bed shortage in Alabama hospitals after coronavirus spike

Spencer Neale · June 26, 2020 2:34 pm