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Study confirms it’s possible to catch COVID-19 twice
August 25, 2020
“This appears to be pretty clear-cut evidence of reinfection because of sequencing and isolation of two different viruses.”
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Research examines links between ‘long COVID’ and ME/CFS
August 25, 2020
“It offers a lot of opportunities for us to study potentially early ME/CFS and how it develops, but in addition, a lot of the research that has been done on ME/CFS may also provide answers for COVID-19.”
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FDA authorizes convalescent plasma for COVID-19
August 24, 2020
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’
August 21, 2020
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
August 21, 2020
As with the uncoordinated and chaotic national response to the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education has no clear guidance or set of standards to adhere to from the federal government or anywhere else.
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NBA star Mason Plumlee on COVID and life inside the Orlando ‘bubble’
August 21, 2020
Each week we interview key opinion leaders involved in various aspects of blood and cancer. In this episode we have a different kind of key opinion leader, our guest is NBA star Mason Plumlee, a forward with the Denver Nuggets.
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COVID-19 plans put to test as firefighters crowd camps for peak wildfire season
August 20, 2020
A COVID-19 outbreak that ripples through a camp could easily sideline crews and spread the virus across multiple fires and back to communities across the country.
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Hospitalists confront administrative, financial challenges of COVID-19 crisis
August 20, 2020
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
August 20, 2020
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
August 19, 2020
For the first time, the percentage of cases in children did not increase from 1 week to the next.