Coronavirus

While health systems across the nation struggle to meet patient surges in the wake of the novel coronavirus, many CEOs agree it’s had an unexpected outcome: bringing a wave of innovation. “It’s caused all of us to think about everything differently—and it’s allowed all of our systems to realize just how adaptable we are,” said

More than 45 states by Sunday will have relaxed restrictions on some combination of businesses, services or parks, hoping to lift economies crushed by a pandemic that has killed at least 77,178 people in the United States and infected over 1.2 million. In the past week, tensions between two goals — to keep people healthy

Their approaches were markedly different — but each is now in the enviable position of being able to ease restrictions imposed to quash the spread of coronavirus with some confidence that infections won’t immediately spike again. So how are they preparing to return to “normal” life? In one word: Cautiously. And those watching enviously from

Transplant surgeries are being resumed by many teaching hospitals in Southeast Michigan, with Donna Arm being the first patient at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit to receive a replacement heart during the COVID-19 crisis. Arm, 68, received her heart transplant on April 25. Like many patients, she was reluctant to call her doctor for

But as it stands now, there’s only enough remdesivir in the world for about 200,000 patients, according to the drug’s maker, Gilead Sciences. Who will those patients be? The US government, which is deciding where remdesivir goes, has offered few answers and little guidance since the drug was authorized for use on hospitalized patients a

California, one of the first states to implement a stay-at-home order, is set to begin loosening some restrictions Friday, though state Health Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly warned residents, “It does not mean a return to normal.” “We still know that the virus is alive in California and that your good efforts have helped us suppress

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has repeatedly found its suggestions for fighting the coronavirus outbreak taking a backseat to other concerns within the Trump administration. That leaves public health experts outside government fearing the agency’s decades of experience in beating back disease threats are going to waste. “You have the greatest fighting force

But with coronavirus looming over the summer season, there may be a need for new kinds of magic and myths. When schools began to close in March due to the escalating Covid-19 crisis, it became clear to Crystal Bobb-Semple, founder and CEO of the company that operates Camp Half-Blood, that she needed to start devising

For Dr. Joseph Herrera, the past eight weeks have seemed like a lifetime. Herrera used to spend his days treating sports injuries as chairman of rehabilitation medicine at Mount Sinai Health System. Then the number of Covid-19 cases started to rise. Hospitals reached capacity in a matter of days as an invisible enemy stormed emergency

With 80% of the Medicare Part D beneficiaries who are at-risk of misusing or overdosing on opioids receiving extreme amounts of the type of drug, HHS’ Office of the Inspector General recommends that CMS do more. A new federal report recommends CMS take a more active role in ensuring Medicare beneficiaries get access to treatment

“In my 30 years in global public health, I’ve never seen anything like this,” Frieden, who now serves as president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, said. “It’s scary. It’s unprecedented.” Here are the 10 truths, according to Frieden: 1. “It’s really bad” in New York City “Even now with deaths decreasing substantially, there

The findings from a team at Mount Sinai Hospital could help with a troubling problem that has shocked and horrified doctors treating coronavirus patients around the world — blood clots throughout the body that complicate an already hard-to-treat disease. The team now says it is running experiments to see which anticoagulants may work best, and

The cases, they said, resemble a severe form of Kawasaki disease — a rare condition that causes inflammation in the walls of the arteries and can limit blood flow to the heart. Separately on Wednesday, the New York State Department of Health reported 64 suspected cases of a similar syndrome, which they called “Pediatric Multi-System

But for those on a medication plan, adding a yoga practice to their treatment repertoire may help to reduce the intensity and frequency of those troublesome migraines, and how many pills they need to take to ease the pain, found a study published Wednesday in the journal Neurology. A migraine is an intense pulsing or

“To my knowledge, there are no states that meet all four of those criteria,” said Caitlin Rivers, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins. She described the four criteria at a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday: “The first is to see the number of new cases decline for at least two weeks, and some states have

Most cases of Covid-19 in children are mild, but studies suggest kids may play a major role in transmitting the virus to each other and to vulnerable adults — and that keeping schools closed for longer may help stop the spread of the coronavirus. One study conducted in China and published in the journal Science

“I’m putting my life on the line every day to do this, and it’s just blowing my mind right now that they are not appreciating it or they don’t see the value in what I’m offering to do,” Dr. Julia Iafrate told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Tuesday. “I’m honestly beside myself. It’s like a slap

But he urges Americans to think of the mask guidance not as forced conformity, but as a necessary act of solidarity: Wearing a cloth mask could stop seemingly healthy people from infecting others with coronavirus if they’re asymptomatic. “We’re all hopeful that this pandemic disappears,” he said. “Then we can stop doing as much risk

The Illinois Association of Health Care Facilities said today that it will offer higher wages and COVID hazard pay to nursing home workers, who have threatened to go on strike May 8 over issues regarding pay, staffing and a lack of personal protective equipment to guard against COVID-19. Under the offer, certified nursing assistants would

After the court’s first day of oral arguments by phone Monday morning, Ginsburg went for outpatient tests at a hospital in Washington. Those tests, according to the statement, “confirmed that she was suffering from a gallstone that had migrated to her cystic duct, blocking it and causing an infection.” Ginsburg is currently “resting comfortably” and

Naturally, there are also villains. Price gougers. Hate-mongers. And then there are the folks endangering lives by refusing to socially distance. How should we view this brand of villain? I’m not referring to people massing in protest against quarantines, arguing that a shuttered economy is worse than the virus. While concern for the poor and

New York state reported more than 1,700 previously undisclosed deaths at nursing homes and adult care facilities in a tally that included for the first time people believed to have been killed by the coronavirus before their diagnoses could be confirmed. The tally, released late Monday, emerged as state officials faced scrutiny over how they

Researchers in Britain looked at mutations in the virus and found evidence of quick spread, but no evidence the virus is becoming more easily transmitted or more likely to cause serious disease. “The virus is changing, but this in itself does not mean it’s getting worse,” genetics researcher Francois Balloux of the University College London

But the exact way in which the brain stores our memories is poorly understood. Now for the first time, tiny microelectrodes planted inside the brains of two people with epilepsy show just how the brain’s neurons fire during sleep to “replay” our short-term memories in order to move them into more permanent storage. The study

In the past two weeks, governors across the country introduced plans for phased reopenings amid mounting pressure from residents and businesses who are fearful of devastating economic impacts of lockdowns. But easing restrictions now may come with a heavy price. “It’s the balance of something that’s a very difficult choice,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s

Grief and loss on so many levels — from missing milestones such as birthdays and graduations to severe illness and death. Difficult times made worse by the fear of an invisible, deadly enemy who strikes via the very air we breathe. Such is the anxiety-ridden reality of living in the age of coronavirus for many

“I was having some pain,” she said. “With the pandemic I said, ‘I’ll just have to wait until everything’s over.'” That Sunday, though, the pain became extreme. When she found a dentist who could see her, she learned she needed an emergency root canal. As part of the country’s response to the Covid-19 crisis, the

Most healthcare providers are not fully prepared to resume deferred care, citing a lack of COVID-19 testing supplies and personal protective equipment, according to a new survey. Around 60% of 364 frontline healthcare workers surveyed said they are not prepared or only somewhat prepared to take on more non-COVID-19 patients, according to a new poll