The prevalence of these effects is too great to attribute them solely to the “cytokine storm,” a powerful immune-system response that attacks the body, causing severe damage, doctors and researchers said.Almost half the people hospitalized because of covid-19 have blood or protein in their urine, indicating early damage to their kidneys, said Alan Kliger, a…
The death toll at a Hayward nursing home with a large coronavirus outbreak increased to 11 Tuesday with the death of a community leader there, and another Alameda County facility recorded its first death, health officials announced. The death at East Bay Post Acute Care in Castro Valley, where 45 patients and staff are stricken…
social distancing measures -- such as stay-at-home orders and school closures -- until 2022, researchers projected on Tuesday. That is, unless, a vaccine becomes quickly available.That's according to researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who published their findings in the journal Science on Tuesday. Those findings directly contradict research being touted…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.In early 2003, the onslaught of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) out of southern China became the first public health crisis of the 21st century.Accusations of cover-ups orchestrated by the Chinese government, and a dangerously slow response from the World Health…