Smoking could pose a renewed threat amid the coronavirus pandemic, leaving many people at an elevated risk of complications. Health officials have warned smokers may be more susceptible to the dangerous effects of the virus due to impaired lung function. How dangerous is smoking amid the coronavirus outbreak? COVID-19 is…
Why Ventilators Are so Important in the Fight Against Coronavirus
Why is a ventilator so crucial in hospitals? Rice: A ventilator supports a person’s breathing and basic lung function. We use them in the operating rooms and during surgeries. When we give anesthesia, a person stops breathing on their own so we have to use a ventilator to control their…
Doctors and Nurses Are Having 'Hard Discussions with Their Families' About Worst-Case Scenarios During Pandemic
Unfortunately, for Choo and for the many other courageous people currently manning our hospitals, there doesn’t seem to be a definite end in sight for the ongoing outbreak, or their limited supplies. “I heard one physician say something like, ‘I feel like I’m standing at the shore, but instead of…
As deaths continue in Italy, a lesson for the United States
(HealthDay)—In a harrowing harbinger of what might come in places like New York City, a new report out of Italy shows the death rate for hospitalized COVID-19 patients continues to grow almost 40 days after the country’s first case was reported. Italy has passed China for coronavirus cases, reporting close…
Coronavirus: The key step you should take after hand washing to prevent COVID-19
NHS GP Dr Gero Baiarda is one of the hundreds of GPs currently on-call at GPDQ, the UK’s leading GP-on-demand service. Dr Baiarda dispels some of the biggest myths regarding the deadly COVID-19, including information on hand washing, moisturising, cleaning the house and how exactly the virus is spread. READ MORE Coronavirus warning:…
New York researchers rush to capture 3-D data map of COVID-19 ‘surface vectors’
New York University researchers are in the field capturing highly detailed three-dimensional data on human movements and behaviors—particularly around medical facilities, public transportation systems, and essential services—to document the complex landscape of “surface vectors” and thus opportunities for COVID-19 transmission. Working under a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research (RAPID)…
Study of the Munich group published Important results in the fight against the Virus
At the end of January, the first patients in Germany, patients Covid-19. Nine of them were treated in the Munich, clinic Schwabing, and of a research group “very closely virologically investigated,” says Charité-virologist Christian Drosten. Their findings could save more lives. Drosten and Clemens Wendtner, chief of infectious diseases and…
Expert explains increased vulnerability of prisoners and police in a pandemic
For a variety of reasons, incarcerated people and correctional officers are at an elevated risk during a pandemic. This is especially the case when that pandemic stems from a highly infectious agent like the novel coronavirus—because people in prisons and jails live in such close quarters, it is not feasible…
Coronavirus update: Do you have a dental emergency? What to do during COVID-19 pandemic
Coronavirus cases in the UK have now surpassed 25,000 and 1,789 deaths have been confirmed. A sharp increase in cases over the last few weeks has led to strict government measures being put in place. Schools, pubs, restaurants, gyms and other businesses have been closed, public gatherings of more than…
Lombardy: the Italian village is completely free of infection, but authorities prohibit Research
Lombardy is Riskogebiet a Corona. However, a small village in the province of Pavia is, so far, of the Virus-shaft spared. Ferrera Erbognone, 30 kilometers southwest of the University city of Pavia, has Infected to date, exactly zero. Until a few days ago, no one knew of the municipality of;…