Oregon has 2,002 known cases of COVID-19, according to Oregon Health Authority data released April 21. The state now counts 78 deaths as officially caused by COVID-19. The number of patients currently in the hospital due to confirmed or suspected cases is at 297, with 70 in the ICU and 35 on ventilators. Sixteen days ago, Oregon had…
Ken Loredo didn’t learn about the two dozen COVID-19 cases at the long-term care facility where his mother lives until the Illinois Department of Public Health released the data for the first time over the weekend. “We hadn’t heard anything at all,” Loredo said. “I was pretty shocked.” Loredo said his mother has had great…
9.32am EDT 09:32 The Guardian’s Kenya Evelyn reports: In a faux campaign ad appearing to mock Joe Biden, Donald Trump tweeted a 2017 clip of the former vice president recalling his time at a community pool in his home state of Delaware. “So I learned about roaches, I learned about kids jumping on my lap,”…
LYON, France — Halving the dose of antenatal betamethasone given to prevent severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in infants does not appear to affect later intelligence quotient (IQ) scores or other measures of neurodevelopment, suggests a follow-up study of a randomized trial. However, it is unclear from the present data, presented at the Congress of
After years of searching for affordable health insurance, Trey Wright discovered Georgia Pathways to Coverage. The state’s limited Medicaid expansion program allowed the 27-year-old living in the rural city of Jesup in southeastern Georgia to finally visit a primary care doctor regularly. It also covered weekly shots to manage an array of allergies, saving him
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