Health officials in Georgia are scrambling to treat patients afraid to leave their homes amid the coronavirus outbreak -- as some nurses are now making house calls.
A railway worker in the United Kingdom died of the novel coronavirus after likely being infected with it by an ill traveler who allegedly spat on her, the union of which she was apart announced on Tuesday.
Organ transplants plummeted as COVID-19 swept through communities, with surgeons wary of endangering living donors and unable to retrieve possibly usable organs from the dead -- and hospitals sometimes too full even when they could.
There has been a “notable decrease” in pediatric vaccine orders across the U.S. since mid-March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wrote in a recent report that highlighted how the coronavirus pandemic has affected vaccination rates in children across the country.
Investigations of SARS-CoV-2 so far have suggested, however, that the immune response to the virus also contributes to the devastating effects of the disease in some people.
Nationwide, investigators have turned up more than false purveyors of PPE. They have uncovered an array of counterfeit or adulterated products, from COVID-19 tests kits and treatments to masks and cleaning products.
Health officials in Kansas said Tuesday that a pregnant woman who is in critical condition with the coronavirus has been given remdesivir, the Gilead Sciences drug that was approved for emergency use, the Wichita Eagle reported.
A 4-year-old child in New Jersey has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, marking the state’s first pediatric death related to COVID-19, officials announced late last week.