Disease

Columbia University infectious diseases expert Jeffrey Shaman predicted Sunday that the U.S. will see a growth in coronavirus cases in coming weeks as some states loosen restrictions.Shaman said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Trump administration officials have not taken full advantage of the past eight weeks of near-total lockdowns, saying that the period would have…

The young patients began showing up in the emergency room with strange symptoms about two weeks ago.Red eyes. Fevers that lasted for days. Low blood pressure.At least five children, ages 6 to 12, have arrived at Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital in New Brunswick since late April with symptoms mirroring Kawasaki disease, an illness that causes…

May 5, 2020 | 1:17am Enlarge Image Montefiore Medical Center Wakefield Campus in the Bronx. Christopher Sadowski Fifteen kids in New York City have been hospitalized with a rare, life-threatening inflammatory syndrome “potentially associated with COVID-19,” health officials said in an alert Monday night. Four of the 15 children with suspected Kawasaki disease also tested…

A new report is predicting that the coronavirus pandemic may last as long as two years and that it could take up to two-thirds of the global population being immune to effectively control the spread of the virus.The report, released Thursday from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of…

The Food and Drug Administration has “all but given up” its oversight responsibility on coronavirus antibody tests, one the country’s top infectious disease experts said Sunday. “We have the wild, wild West for testing right now,” Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota,…