Covid-19: IEC looking to postpone 2021 local government electionsHe said high-risk areas would be classified as hotspots and they would remain at Level 4 lockdown restrictions with intensive implementation of screening and testing. This despite President Cyril Ramaphosa saying on Sunday evening the whole country should be lowered from Level 4 to 3 with effect from 1…
Nicole Cobler @nicolecoblerJonathan Tilove @JTiloveTXPhilip Jankowski @PhilJankowski As retail stores and restaurants prepare to reopen across the state on Friday, roughly two dozen counties have seen a spike in coronavirus cases in the last week, an American-Statesman analysis of state data shows.Even as the numbers of daily new cases statewide have fallen from a peak…
Covid toes, aka pernio or chilblains Ilan Schwartz, MD, PhD A few weeks ago, the peculiar symptom of loss of smell and taste was reported as an early symptom of COVID-19 infection. This generally preceded the lung symptoms, the most prominent finding in the infection. Now more unexpected symptoms are being reported, including diarrhea, heart…
(CNN)New York and other hot spots are experiencing prolongedpeaks of the coronavirus pandemic while southern states may not get hit as hard as earlier projected, experts say. Researchers from the prominent projection model cited by the White House plan to re…
(Oona Zenda/KFF Health News) As Grace Griffin and her husband were welcoming their long-awaited baby — a daughter — Griffin found herself worried about looming medical bills and unsure if their family could pay for the care they needed. “This whole experience has me wondering (keeping me up at night, actually): Can we ever afford
LYON, France — Halving the dose of antenatal betamethasone given to prevent severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in infants does not appear to affect later intelligence quotient (IQ) scores or other measures of neurodevelopment, suggests a follow-up study of a randomized trial. However, it is unclear from the present data, presented at the Congress of
After years of searching for affordable health insurance, Trey Wright discovered Georgia Pathways to Coverage. The state’s limited Medicaid expansion program allowed the 27-year-old living in the rural city of Jesup in southeastern Georgia to finally visit a primary care doctor regularly. It also covered weekly shots to manage an array of allergies, saving him