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A Carmichael man who was the first to test positive for coronavirus by the county public health department is now offering hope by donating his blood as a form of treatment.Paul Peterson, 75, is back in the news again. He first made headlines in February when he and his wife Alice were on board the…

Nearly 300 Illinois nursing home patients and staff have died from COVID-19, but exactly where still remains largely cloaked in secrecy. Unlike some states, Illinois hasn’t named specific facilities where the virus has been detected. That’s been true even in cases of significant clusters of deaths. While state officials signal that could be changing, for…

Posted: Thu 6:39 PM, Apr 16, 2020 ODESSA, Tx. (KOSA) -- A second COVID-19 patient has died at Medical Center Hospital. According to MCH, the patient was a man in his 60s who died on Thursday evening. Five patients are still being treated at MCH. Three of those patients are in the Critical Care Unit,…

Share on PinterestCan SARS-CoV-2 affect pets, and if so, what can we do to ensure their well-being, as well as ours? We investigate.In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, much if not most of the research has focused on SARS-CoV-2’s impact on humans.But what about our most trustworthy companions — the pets that share our…

Mammoth Biosciences and researchers at the University of California, San Francisco are working on a coronavirus test that could run multiple samples at once, with results in 35-40 minutes. Even better, they say, it doesn't require the sophisticated, expensive equipment used in other tests for the virus. Mammoth Biosciences hide caption toggle caption Mammoth Biosciences…