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Coronavirus fear and anxiety can be as contagious as the illness, NYC psychiatrist says

6 years 6 months ago
Nowhere has the stress from the coronavirus pandemic been felt more than on the nation’s healthcare workers and first responders who are trying to save lives.  With more than half a million cases and 42,000 deaths, mental health experts worry about the toll it’s taking on those serving on the frontline.  “Fear and Anxiety can be worse than the virus,” Yusim told Fox News.  “With every patient, you have to get them through this trauma and then we have to find a silver lining.

Possible coronavirus vaccine enters human testing trial

6 years 6 months ago
Progress is being made towards a viable vaccine for the coronavirus say researchers at a Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical company. Inovio Pharmaceuticals along with the University of Pennsylvania’s research facility, the Wistar Institute have been working on the vaccine as early as this past January. Originally reported by Fox News, the vaccine was fast-tracked into development after the Chinese Government made the genome sequencing of COVID-19 public. 

Could execution drugs help coronavirus patients? Some doctors say yes

6 years 6 months ago
Secrecy surrounding executions could hinder efforts by a group of medical professionals who are asking the nation’s death penalty states for medications used in lethal injections so that they can go to coronavirus patients who are on ventilators, according to a death penalty expert and a doctor who's behind the request.
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