This spring, our daughter insisted that my husband and I, both in our 60s, get the latest weapon in the fight against the novel coronavirus: the pulse oximeter, a device that can measure the level of oxygen in the blood. Recent reports have shown that a lower-than-healthy level of oxygen saturation in the blood can…
A desperately ill woman with COVID-19 underwent a double lung transplant last week in Chicago, which is believed to be the first of its kind performed on a patient with the virus.The New York Times reported Thursday that the woman, who is in her 20s and otherwise healthy, is still on a ventilator but she…
Some children in the United Kingdom with no underlying health conditions have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome which researchers believe to be linked to COVID-19, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Tuesday. Italian and British medical experts are investigating a possible link between the coronavirus pandemic and clusters of severe inflammatory disease among infants…
When medical historians look back at the Covid-19 pandemic, they will reckon with how the United States, with its vast technological and scientific resources, stumbled so badly in the face of an emerging virus. They’ll wonder why the country responded so slowly, and why, in particular, it lacked adequate diagnostic tests for months after cases…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.No man is an island.But for those who succumb to coronavirus from the confines of a hospital, they die alone – physically separated from the friends and family who love them.This cruel reality weighs heavily on a group of New York…
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4 min read WHEN YOU FIND something good, it makes sense to capitalize on it, right? James Gunn’s DC Universe is still in its relative infancy, and its earlygoings have been good, but a bit bumpy. Creature Commandos and the second season of Peacemaker were strong and had their audience, and Superman was very good.
