CNN)In the midst of an aggressive course of treatment for coronavirus, President Donald Trump left the hospital with his security detail Sunday so he could ride in an SUV past supporters cheering him on outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Americans are dying alone in their hospital rooms because family can’t have contact but Trump can demand a driver and security detail for a little propaganda ride. […]
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Vice President Pence, seen during a press conference at the White House on Sept. 28, will begin a campaign tour through key swing states following the vice presidential debate on Wednesday. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Vice President Pence, seen during a press conference at the White House on Sept. 28, will begin a campaign tour through key swing states following […]
India has recorded 100,000 fatalities from Covid-19 after battling the lethal outbreak for seven months, becoming the third nation to cross the six-digit figure after the United States and Brazil, according to official tallies. The country’s total death toll sat at 100,842 on Saturday morning, on top of nearly 6.5 million infections, according to the Indian Health Ministry. Passing the 100,000-mark seven months to the day […]
Alas, the truth has done little to dissuade QAnon believers from the fictions of their conspiracy mythology. Unsurprisingly, the “Pizzagate” conspiracy that was QAnon’s forerunner should have fallen apart when an adherent wielded an assault rifle in a Washington pizzeria because he believed Hillary Clinton and her associates were running a child sex ring in its basement. The gunman found no Clinton, no children and no basement – […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202009141080454950-former-french-president-giscard-destaing-admitted-to-hospital-with-pulmonary-infection-reports-say/ According to Le Parisien, the former president has been taken to an intensive care unit at the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris. Former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing has been admitted to hospital with a pulmonary infection following complaints of respiratory problems, Le Parisien reported, citing hospital sources. The 94-year-old politician was hospitalised at the Georges Pompidou hospital in […]
New Theory Of How COVID-19 Infects Humans A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged by @tomsmith585 in @elemental https://t.co/5k43HLJsFN — Carol Duff (@CarolDuff18) September 10, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: The Oak Ridge National Lab’s Summit supercomputer put together data of more than 40,000 genes from 17,000 genetic samples to try to better understand COVID-19 and how it infects people. After analyzing 2.5 billion […]
Officials believe church gatherings in the greater Seoul region are largely responsible for a sudden increase in COVID-19 infections. South Korea had been praised for its control of the virus. (Image credit: Lee Jin-man/AP) Source link
Health Editor’s Note: And just when you thought the COVID-19 news could not get worse….Carol Initial COVID-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported by Jordan Ford/Penn State News UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Many epidemiologists believe that the initial COVID-19 infection rate was undercounted due to testing issues, asymptomatic and alternatively symptomatic individuals, and a failure to identify early cases. Now, a new […]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Tuesday afternoon with a possible infection. The 87-year-old received treatment after experiencing a fever and chills, reported CNBC. *GINSBURG ADMITTED TO JOHN HOPKINS FOR POSSIBLE INFECTION *GINSBURG UNDERWENT PROCEDURE AT JOHNS HOPKINS THIS AFTERNOON — Justin Sink (@justinsink) July 14, 2020 TRENDING: GREAT NEWS! Tommy Tuberville Defeats Former AG Jeff Sessions in Alabama Senate Primary […]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been admitted to hospital in Baltimore “for treatment of a possible infection,” in the latest health scare for the liberal judge. Ginsburg, 87, was initially assessed at Sibley Memorial Hospital in DC after experiencing fever and chills before being admitted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland on Tuesday morning. “She underwent an endoscopic procedure at Johns Hopkins […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107637/00/1076370062_30:0:1230:675_1200x675_80_0_0_fdfcbfb012229d234b5d9581f58da96e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007061079803556-florida-health-officials-warn-residents-after-confirming-one-rare-brain-eating-amoeba-infection/ The species is said to cause a rare brain illness known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis, that destroys brain tissue, causing brain swelling and death. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has registered 34 PAM infections in the country between 2009-2018. Florida has seen 37 cases since 1962. The Florida Department of Health (DoH) announced on Friday […]
Fever checks are a flawed way to flag Covid-19 cases. Experts say smell tests might help by Sharon Begley/STATnews Workplaces do it. Newly reopened public libraries do it. LAX does it. Some restaurants, bars, and retail stores started doing it when governors let them serve customers again: Use temperature checks — almost always with “non-contact infrared thermometers” — to identify people who might have, and therefore […]
New study finds troubling signs of “brain complications” in severe COVID-19 cases by Elizabeth Elkind/CBS News A new coronavirus study out of the United Kingdom found troubling signs of brain complications in patients with severe COVID-19. The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, looked at 153 patients who were hospitalized with severe cases of the disease, and found that 125 of them experienced a range of neurological and […]
Farmworkers in Yakima, Washington’s fruit packing industry walked off production lines in May and went on strike, demanding more protections against the coronavirus pandemic. Above, Emmanuel Anguiano-Mendoza (left) and Agustin López hold posters featuring David Cruz, a worker who died on May 30. Enrique Pérez de la Rosa/Northwest Public Broadcasting hide caption toggle caption Enrique Pérez de la Rosa/Northwest Public Broadcasting On May 30, David Cruz […]
First Molecular Profiles of Severe COVID-19 Infections Dr. Francis Collins/NIH To ensure that people with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) get the care they need, it would help if a simple blood test could predict early on which patients are most likely to progress to severe and life-threatening illness—and which are more likely to recover without much need for medical intervention. Now, researchers have provided some of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107912/90/1079129017_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_37701bac9747b23b7c6e1b320996d2f4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202005131079287679-asia-pacific-stocks-trade-lower-following-uptick-in-covid-19-infection/ Asian countries, including China and South Korea, have been reporting single-digit new cases of coronavirus per day, but over the weekend, new small clusters of infection were registered in these countries. Stocks in the Asia-Pacific region slipped in morning trade on Wednesday, according to CNBC News. Japan’s Nikkei 225 was 1.28 percent lower, while the Topix index also lost 0.99 […]