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Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize. Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images Despite the surge in hospital admissions in Gauteng, hospitals have still not reached capacity.An additional 250 beds would be added to each hospital to match the daily number of admissions.Close to 2 000 field hospital beds will also be added to different hospitals in…

A doctor in protective gear prepares her equipment before testing a patient for Covid-19. As of 3 July, 2 232 patients in Gauteng have been hospitalised due to Covid-19.As of 1 July, there were 644 patients in ICU and high care wards in Gauteng.To date, Gauteng has recorded a total of 54 311 confirmed cases…

An increasing number of U.S. covid-19 patients are surviving after they are placed on mechanical ventilators, a last-resort measure that was perceived as a signal of impending death during the terrifying early days of the pandemic.Early reports out of Wuhan, China, and Italy cemented the impression that the vast majority of patients who required the…

Major medical centers nationwide trying to understand why some COVID-19 patients continue to have symptoms weeks and even months after having been diagnosed with the coronavirus.Amy Watson, 47, is one of those patients. She's had a fever, she said, for more than 100 days.Amy Watson.Marc Leonard"It's been maddening," said Watson, a preschool teacher in Portland,…

Share on PinterestResearch suggests that systemic inflammation in response to severe cases of COVID-19 may be responsible for heart attacks and arrhythmias. New research found that COVID-19 patients in ICU were 10 times more likely to experience arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythms) than COVID-19 patients hospitalized but not admitted to ICU.The study found that cardiac arrests…