Hospitals in New York City have reported that they are treating 15 children that have shown symptoms often associated with Kawasaki disease, which global health officials have linked to the coronavirus.
If a Medicare patient is diagnosed – or even presumed – to have contracted coronavirus, termed COVID-19, hospitals across the United States are given more money from the federal government, economic assessments show. That amount can so much as triple if the patient requires a ventilator, raising questions as to whether there is a financial impetus to overstate coronavirus numbers.
Initially, experts believed that children were largely spared by COVID-19, and while the majority of patients who require hospitalization are adults there have been fatalities and confirmed cases involving youth.
A young Dedham, Mass., boy who survived both cancer and a battle with the novel coronavirus received a warm welcome home late last month after he was released from Boston Children's Hospital, according to local reports.
The fight against coronavirus has recruited nurses who work across many different sections of hospitals -- such as one Chicago nurse reassigned from an adult inpatient psychiatry ward who weighed in on what it's like treating coronavirus patients.
The study suggests as many as 1.8 million people in Germany may have been infected by the novel coronavirus, compared to the 160,000 cases confirmed by officials.
Heads up, Sin City residents: If you have survived a COVID-19 infection, you may be eligible to donate blood plasma to help other patients who are still battling the disease.
One of the distinguishing factors with COVID-19 compared to other pandemics is how friends and families have to distance themselves from each other, which makes coping especially difficult.
A special envoy to the World Health Organization on the coronavirus said in an interview Sunday that the global economy may have to assume that there will not be a vaccine and consider ways to approach the virus a “constant threat."
President Trump announced Friday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the emergency use of Gilead Science's experimental antiviral drug remdesivir to treat coronavirus patients after early results of a clinical study indicated the drug helps speed recovery.
Despite a growing interest in home births amid the coronavirus pandemic, one obstetrician assures expectant mothers to remain confident of a safe labor and delivery in hospital settings.
Heads up, pug owners: Dogs of this breed may be more susceptible to the novel coronavirus due to their flat faces and squished noses, a veterinarian said.
