Tag: Health

In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, photo, medical staff prepare beds at a temporary hospital which transformed from an exhibition center for accepting patients who diagnosed with the coronaviruses in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Ten more people were sickened with a new virus aboard one of two quarantined cruise ships with some 5,400 passengers and crew aboard, health officials in Japan said Thursday, as China reported 73 more deaths and announced that the first group of patients were expected to start taking a new antiviral drug.

‘Wartime conditions’: Official orders Wuhan round up residents with coronavirus and send them to quarantine camps

Zach Halaschak · February 6, 2020 9:45 pm

A small boat navigates near a cruise ship Diamond Princess anchoring off the Yokohama Port Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Japanese health officials are conducting extensive medical checks on all 3,700 passengers and crew of the cruise ship that returned to the country after one passenger tested positive for the new coronavirus.

Ten more test positive for coronavirus on cruise ship filled with Americans

Zach Halaschak · February 6, 2020 3:18 am

Trabajadores preparando camas en un centro de convenciones convertido en hospital temporal en Wuhan, en la provincia china de Hubei, el martes 4 de febrero de 2020.

China sees largest single-day increase in coronavirus deaths with 73

Zach Halaschak · February 6, 2020 1:38 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.

Wisconsin sees first coronavirus patient as total US cases increase to a dozen

Zach Halaschak · February 5, 2020 10:47 pm

A girl wears a face mask as she walks across a frozen canal during a snowfall in Beijing, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020.

‘We can’t stop’: Funeral worker says Wuhan cremating ‘at least 100’ bodies a day amid coronavirus outbreak

Spencer Neale · February 5, 2020 5:13 pm

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Trump declares war on Democratic dreams of destroying your healthcare

Tiana Lowe Doescher · February 5, 2020 3:22 am

U.S. President Donald Trump, center, delivers a State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019.

Democrats to bring insulin users to State of the Union to troll Trump

Kimberly Leonard · February 4, 2020 8:39 pm

Medical workers in protective suits move a coronavirus patient into an isolation ward at the Second People's Hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui Province, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. The death toll in China's virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington's tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign nationals who visited the country within the past two weeks.

‘Avoiding us like we are the virus’: Fear of coronavirus plagues Chinese sex workers

Joel Gehrke · February 4, 2020 7:41 pm

In this Friday, Nov. 10, 2017 photo, a rhesus macaques monkey observes kayakers as they navigate along the Silver River in Silver Springs, Fla. Wildlife managers in Florida say they want to remove the roaming monkeys from the state in light of a new study published Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, that finds some of the animals are excreting a virus that can be dangerous to humans.

Deadly herpes-riddled feral monkeys swing through Florida

Zach Halaschak · February 4, 2020 7:23 pm

This handout photo taken and released by Malaysia's Ministry of Health shows health officials in protective suits at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, waiting for arrivals that were evacuated from China's Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

China witnesses deadliest day of coronavirus outbreak as infection rapidly spreads

Zach Halaschak · February 4, 2020 4:42 pm

Attendees hold signs while waiting for a health care bill news conference to begin on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.

Healthcare tops voter concerns at Iowa caucuses

Kimberly Leonard · February 4, 2020 2:54 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.

American Airlines cuts flights to Hong Kong over coronavirus

Tim Pearce · February 4, 2020 1:58 pm