Coronavirus Updates
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FDA authorizes convalescent plasma for COVID-19
The authorization allows the plasma to be distributed in the U.S. and administered by health care providers.
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‘The pandemic within the pandemic’
Blacks have higher rates of COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death than Whites.
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Swab, spit, stay home? College coronavirus testing plans are all over the map
As with the uncoordinated and chaotic national response to the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education has no clear guidance or set of standards to...
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NBA star Mason Plumlee on COVID and life inside the Orlando ‘bubble’
Each week we interview key opinion leaders involved in various aspects of blood and cancer. In this episode
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COVID-19 plans put to test as firefighters crowd camps for peak wildfire season
A COVID-19 outbreak that ripples through a camp could easily sideline crews and spread the virus across multiple fires and back to communities...
Practice Management
Hospitalists confront administrative, financial challenges of COVID-19 crisis
The COVID-19 crisis may present an opportunity for hospital medicine to rapidly explore different models.
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Oleander extract for COVID-19? That’s a hard ‘no’ experts say
Oleandrin poisoning may affect the central nervous system, as evidenced by drowsiness, tremors, seizures, collapse, and coma leading to death.
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COVID-19 child case count now over 400,000
For the first time, the percentage of cases in children did not increase from 1 week to the next.
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Evidence mounts for COVID-19 effects on thyroid gland
Among severely ill patients with COVID-19, rates of thyrotoxicosis are significantly higher than among patients without it. But those with thyroid...
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Non-COVID-19 clinical trials grind to a halt during pandemic