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At New York City Health and Hospitals, some of the protective measures include equipping patient rooms with cameras and microphones to enable more remote monitoring, purchasing additional ventilators and dialysis machines, establishing hot (COVID) and cold (non-COVID) areas in hospitals and training some existing nurses for ICU work.
Among those at risk are people entering new relationships, often post-menopause, when they're less likely to follow safe sex measures because pregnancy is no longer a consideration.
In other news: The Strategic National Stockpile still lacks supplies, Clorox can't keep up, Sen. Susan Collins lands a hefty testing swab contract for a Maine company, and more.
The study, led by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, looked at almost 136,000 pediatric patients -- only 4% of those tested positive for the virus. Other research news touches on sense of smell, lung capacity and bloodstream infections.
Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of outside experts that makes recommendations to the CDC on use of vaccines, met Monday.
A study found that patients in the first three stages of colon cancer who were in expansion states were more likely to receive primarily surgical treatment within 30 days than those in non-expansion states.
Stateline examines how the incoming Biden administration could deliver increased support and funding for state health care services.
With access to funds and federal officials no longer blocked, getting up to speed on the government's pandemic response and vaccine distributions plans is the top priority for President-elect Joe Biden's transition team.
The Trump administration says it will start today distributing the COVID-19 therapy, just approved for emergency use by the FDA. Meanwhile a former FDA chief warns about the virus' long-term effects.
Reversing a lower court's ruling, a federal appeals court ruled that the states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood clinics. The case is expected to reach the Supreme Court.
To address the surge of COVID cases flooding the medical system, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order allowing hospitals to transfer patients without their consent or not admit new ones if the facility is full. And in New York, a Staten Island emergency hospital is reopened.
News about state and local virus restrictions also comes from Washington, D.C., California, Delaware, Florida and Missouri. Additionally, research explores how mask mandates can help consumer spending as well as public health efforts.
Even though cases are surging in several counties, Utah dropped restrictions on household-only gatherings. Pennsylvania takes steps to lessen spread, while South Dakota lets common sense rule.
More than 3 million Americans headed to airports over the weekend, while medical professionals and public health officials simultaneously warned of the COVID-19 dangers of traveling and celebrating the holiday with people outside one's own household.
Over 85,000 Americans are severely sick enough from COVID-19 to require hospitalization, overwhelming health care capacity and workers. And one model indicates that the crisis will only deepen over the next three weeks, while Dr. Anthony Fauci warns that the U.S. death total could reach 300,000.
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While President Donald Trump stressed the importance of treating all Americans first, other leaders of the Group of 20 pushed for an international response.
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