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With a report showing that 2018 yielded the highest case numbers seen so far of a paralyzing condition largely among children who had been sick with a respiratory virus, U.S. health officials today...
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WASHINGTON, DC – It was August of 2018 when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deployed public health officer Dr. Mary Choi to Beni as part of a small group responding to the outbreak...
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From 2016 to 2017, 14% of people living with HIV in the United States did something to save money on the out-of-pocket costs of their prescription medicine. Some asked their provider for a lower-priced...
View ArticleCovid-19: CDC reports issue with reagent used in PCR test sent to states and...
Dr. Daniel Lucey, who has responded to, and monitored information on outbreaks since 2001, has provided a series of updates and analysis on the outbreak, now an epidemic of 2019-nCoV, the novel...
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The following is a guest post by Erin Keizur, Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH While the devastating impacts of COVID-19 to individuals, to our most vulnerable populations, to our lives, our...
View ArticleCOVID-19: As awareness of coronavirus grew, exposure to cleaners and...
A preschooler with a blood alcohol level more than three times the level most states consider too drunk to drive had fallen and hit her head when she was taken to the hospital. On the way there, she...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Among patients hospitalized with coronavirus, a quarter of patients...
With comparable outcomes, patients who were black made more than 80% of those hospitalized, disproportionate to numbers hospitalized overall One in four patients hospitalized because of COVID-19 did...
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But agency notes continued testing, knowledge gaps . . . In late February, the United States was home to just 53 people who had been diagnosed with COVID-19. That month, the U.S. Centers for Disease...
View ArticleCOVID 19: Over five days, gatherings at one church led to at least 61...
Over five days in the beginning of March, a series of events brought at least 94 people to an Arkansas church. On the sixth day, with the pastor, his wife and some of the congregants showing symptoms...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Will high-tide waves and low-tide waves continue across America?...
By Daniel R. Lucey M.D., MPH FIDSA As the number of reported people confirmed with COVID-19 in the United States crosses 2 million and the number of deaths crosses 113,000 (reference: Johns Hopkins...
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