Students walk through the campus at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, on August 24. Cheney Orr/Bloomberg/Getty Images Schools are reopening — and the virus is spreading across US college campuses. At least 37 states are reporting positive Covid-19 cases at colleges or universities, making a total of more than 25,000 cases among students … Read more
It could take a month for Covid-19 patients to clear virus, new research finds Source link
Students walk through the campus at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, on August 24. Cheney Orr/Bloomberg/Getty Images Schools are reopening — and the virus is spreading across US college campuses. At least 37 states are reporting positive Covid-19 cases at colleges or universities, making a total of more than 25,000 cases among students … Read more
Covid-19 patients may need to wait over a month before being retested to know whether they have cleared the virus, and one in five negative test results could be false, according to research published Tuesday in the British Medical Journal. Dr. Francesco Venturelli of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and colleagues studied 1,162 patients in the … Read more
A National Institutes of Health panel says there’s no evidence backing the use of convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients and says doctors should not treat it as a standard of care until more study has been done. “There are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of convalescent plasma for the … Read more
Admiral Brett Giroir, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said Tuesday he doesn’t want to answer any more questions about when every American can quickly and cheaply get a Covid-19 test. “It’s great to talk about this utopian kind of idea where everybody has a test every day and we can do that,” Giroir said. … Read more
Heather Lieberman, 28, receives a Covid-19 vaccination from Yaquelin De La Cruz at the Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Florida, on August 13. Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images Vaccine experts are warning the US federal government against rushing out a coronavirus vaccine before testing has shown it’s both safe and effective. Decades of history show why … Read more
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House on August 31 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images As US President Donald Trump was painting a positive picture of the coronavirus pandemic and urging states to reopen the nation’s businesses and schools, data from the White House coronavirus task force released Monday shows he was getting … Read more
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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House on August 31 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images As US President Donald Trump was painting a positive picture of the coronavirus pandemic and urging states to reopen the nation’s businesses and schools, data from the White House coronavirus task force released Monday shows he was getting … Read more