A 65-year-old sergeant marked Florida’s first coronavirus death of a state correctional officer. Days later, a 40-year-old correctional officer lost his life to the disease, according to a report.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) on Tuesday announced an underreporting of coronavirus cases due to issues with an electronic laboratory reporting system.
When respiratory therapist Julie Sullivan, 46, left her home state of Texas this spring to help out embattled NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., at the height of New York City's coronavirus crisis, she was told to make her N95 mask last for seven days.
Texas health officials are only reporting COVID-19 results from nasal swab, PCR tests, and leaving out tens of thousands of antibody and rapid antigen test results, according to a report.
The condition typically causes arm or leg weakness, but can lead to paralysis over the course of a few hours or days and requiring one in four hospitalized children to rely on a mechanical ventilator to help them breathe, according to the CDC.
Silicon Valley-based biotech start-up ANA Therapeutics announced Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration approved its application for tapeworm drug niclosamide as a potential treatment in COVID-19 and will soon begin human clinical trials.