published Monday, determined that children with underlying conditions, like adults, face even greater risks than the general public.Dr. Lawrence Kleinman, a co-author of the study and a leading pediatric researcher at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, said the public needs to understand that COVID-19 seriously affects children, too.“We can’t say that kids are spared,”…
Published on May 9, 2020New York state is investigating 73 cases of what doctors are calling “pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome.” NBC News found cases of the rare condition, thought to be linked to coronavirus, in at least 8 other states and Washington, D.C.» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC» Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNewsNBC News is…
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said New York was working with the C.D.C. to investigate mysterious illness linked to the coronavirus that causes life-threatening inflammation in children.Right NowAnother 226 people have died in New York of the coronavirus, a small increase over Friday’s death toll. Cases and deaths in New York State Feb. 26 May 8…
Read | Ramaphosa threatened with possible litigation over constitutionality of council in charge of response to Covid-19Last week, advocates Nazeer Cassim and Erin Dianne Richards wrote to Ramaphosa, indicating their concern over the possible risk of constitutional and democratic malfunctioning.This, they said, arose from what appears to be the questionable establishment, structure and functions of the…
By Saturday night — when Newburger and 1,800 other worried pediatric specialists, including representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, convened on a Zoom call to discuss the phenomenon — hospitals worldwide had identified about 100 similar cases. About half are in the United States.“Not in my…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…