An inmate at one of California’s correctional institutions has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, becoming what is reportedly the first COVID-19 death in an inmate in the state.
While COVID-19 continues to attack patients’ lungs, an unanticipated trend has surfaced: acute kidney injury -- and the reported lack of ICU dialysis machines to treat it.
As residents at a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, began dying in late February from a coronavirus outbreak that would eventually take 43 lives, there was little sign of trouble at the Cobble Hill Health Center, a 360-bed facility in an upscale section of Brooklyn.
The coronavirus quarantine has contributed to a surge in the demand for prescription tranquilizers and sleep aids in the United States, as Americans continue to feel on edge about the uncertainty of the disease, according to a new research report.
A group of New York City volunteers are collecting iPads from across the country and donating them to hospitals to help patients virtually connect with family members unable to be present.
The researchers claim their findings suggest that between 48,000 and 81,000 people in Santa Clara County had been infected with COVID-19 by April 1, while the total number of confirmed cases was less than 1,000.
A young boy in New York is in a dire situation after receiving a brain cancer diagnosis amid the coronavirus outbreak. For 4-year-old Matteo Ferruzzi of Suffolk County, his positive COVID-19 test has complicated the start of at least a year’s worth of chemotherapy treatment on an inoperable malignant brain tumor.
If the World Health Organization wants to continue receiving funding from the U.S., it should replace its current director-general, a group of Republican lawmakers said Thursday.