(CNN)Ten nurses were placed on administrative leave from Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, for demanding they be given N95 masks while treating Covid-19 patients, two of the nurses told CNN. Two nurses at PSJHC told CNN that …
The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that consumers don't have to worry about contracting the coronavirus from grocery packaging. However, the Centers for Disease Control and other experts say the opposite. What is the FDA saying? In a release on its website, the FDA wrote, "We want to reassure consumers that there is currently…
(CNN)When an outbreak of coronavirus in a Boston homeless shelter prompted officials to do more testing, the results caught them off guard. Of the 146 people who tested positive, all of them were considered asymptomatic. "These are larger numbers than we eve…
New tests can identify people who have been infected and recovered from COVID-19 by searching for coronavirus antibodies in the blood. Researchers from Stanford University recently tested 3,300 Californians in Santa Clara county for antibodies. Their results suggest that the number of people who have been infected in the county is between 50 and 85 times higher…
Nearly two months after the first case of the coronavirus was reported in the United States, medical professionals across the country are reflecting on what they wish they had known when the outbreak began: how quickly it would sweep through their communities, how devastating the emotional toll would be, how unprepared they and their health…