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An Albanian man’s pain grew so unbearable, he said, he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention center. A Honduran mother of two said she was hospitalized for a heart problem after she was denied blood pressure medications while held in Florida. A Venezuelan man said

Darren Stewart, Gallo Images As the number of infections increase across the world, and especially in Europe, here is a weekly roundup of developments in the coronavirus crisis.Most new cases After stabilising, the pandemic has strongly picked up pace this week, with 286 000 new cases recorded on average per day throughout the world, an increase…

This story originally appeared on STAT, a health and medicine website that provides ambitious coverage of the coronavirus. Go here for more stories on the virus. Try STAT Plus for exclusive analysis of biotech, pharma, and the life sciences. And check out STAT’s COVID-19 tracker. Two new studies from Germany paint a sobering picture of the toll that Covid-19 takes on the…

Most Americans still at risk of COVID-19 Most Americans still at risk of COVID-19 08:38 A new study says the number of coronavirus infections in the U.S. could be as many as 2 to 13 times higher than what has been officially reported. With 3.9 million confirmed cases and more than 142,000 deaths, the U.S.…

data released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The findings suggest that large numbers of people who did not have symptoms or did not seek medical care may have kept the virus circulating in their communities.The study indicates that even the hardest-hit area in the study — New York City, where nearly one…