Posts Tagged ‘covid19’

Another Coronavirus Health Threat: Too Few Asthma Inhalers | Health News | US News

April 25, 2020

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-03-30/another-coronavirus-health-threat-too-few-asthma-inhalers

Almost 90 percent of coronavirus patients on ventilators died in large U.S. study – The Washington Post

April 25, 2020

QT:{{”
The paper also found that of those who were hospitalized, 57 percent had hypertension, 41 percent were obese and 34 percent had diabetes which is consistent with risk factors listed by the Centers for Disease for Control and Prevention. Noticeably absent from the top of the list was asthma. As doctors and researchers have learned more about covid-19, the less it seems that asthma plays a dominant role in outcomes.
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Interesting that asthma was not found as one of the top risk factors.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/22/coronavirus-ventilators-survival/

https://twitter.com/jflier/status/1253834961754509312

Yale in the months ahead | YaleNews

April 25, 2020

https://news.yale.edu/2020/04/21/yale-months-ahead?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=YT_YaleToday-Faculty_4-22-2020

Opinion | Who Is Immune to the Coronavirus? – The New York Times

April 24, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/opinion/coronavirus-immunity.html

Almost 90 percent of coronavirus patients on ventilators died in large U.S. study – The Washington Post

April 24, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/22/coronavirus-ventilators-survival/

Coronavirus Has Infected A 5th Of New York City, Testing Suggests : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR

April 23, 2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/23/842818125/coronavirus-has-infected-a-fifth-of-new-york-city-testing-suggests

contact tracing

April 23, 2020

MIT contact tracing:
http://news.mit.edu/2020/bluetooth-covid-19-contact-tracing-0409

Oxygen measuring

April 23, 2020

The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients
This is what I learned during 10 days of treating Covid pneumonia at Bellevue Hospital.
By Richard Levitan

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.amp.html
oximeter!

Branford Festival

April 22, 2020

https://www.nhregister.com/shoreline/amp/Branford-Festival-canceled-for-1st-time-in-36-15213734.php

CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus this winter could be worse – The Washington Post

April 21, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/21/coronavirus-secondwave-cdcdirector/