Those living in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities are the people most susceptible to infectious diseases. So, it is no surprise that nursing home residents make up a huge part of the U.S.’s COVID-19 deaths. At the end of April 2020, COVID-19 deaths in nursing home reached nearly 12,000.1 According to The Washington… Read More »
Personal health, food and medicine, safety and financial security are consumers’ top priorities as of April 2020, learned in consumer research analyzed in How COVID-19 will permanently change consumer behavior from Accenture. Both health and economic concerns plague consumers around the world as people “strive to adapt to a new normal,” Accenture reports. “Fear is… Read More »
Dive Brief: The American Hospital Association in a new report estimates the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the numbers are sobering: It forecasts losses will top $ 200 billion — and that’s just for the first four months of the outbreak from March estimated through June. AHA said the hemorrhaging can be connected to… Read More »
In recent weeks, several doctors and published papers have noted that COVID-19 patients who are put on ventilators have an increased risk of death.1 April 9, 2020, Business Insider reported2 that 80% of COVID-19 patients in New York City who are placed on ventilators die, causing some doctors to question their use. According to The… Read More »
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday cleared an experimental drug from Gilead for emergency use in treating COVID-19, acting quickly following announcement on Wednesday of encouraging results from a crucial government-run study. Results from the study, which was led by the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, showed treatment with remdesivir led to… Read More »
Ed Shaw, a tireless HIV advocate based in New York City who was a member of numerous organizations and advocacy groups and worked for POZ in the mid-’90s, died in April 2020 of complications from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. HIV positive for slightly over 30 years, Shaw remained active in HIV… Read More »