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Doctors are making decisions about a patient鈥檚 recovery with an incomplete understanding of the disease caused by the coronavirus. Although federal officials have issued general guidelines, physicians said they can鈥檛 offer recovered patients who aren鈥檛 retested any guarantees about whether they could transmit the virus.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Taking one鈥檚 temperature is not as easy as it sounds. For one reporter, the first challenge was finding a thermometer.
A common complaint about the testing process is the long turnaround time for results.
As President Donald Trump called the nation 鈥渋n good shape鈥 to handle COVID-19, a cache of emails released by officials in Washington state show that top public health authorities feared gear shortages and doctor safety in the early epicenter of sickness and deaths.
The president鈥檚 statement frames the data in a way that doesn鈥檛 accurately represent the status of the American response to COVID-19.
Maryland, Ohio and others are reporting only positive tests, which skews tracking and an understanding of how the virus spreads.
If you or your company have useful supplies and want to donate them, here are some answers to questions you might be asking.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave huge cities roughly the same number of test kits as some rural spots, which crippled efforts by health officials to contain the virus.
Nationwide, testing for coronavirus is ramping up. But the supply of specialty swabs needed to collect potential coronavirus specimens can鈥檛 keep up with demand, creating a bottleneck in testing capabilities. So two top manufacturers are working with U.S. and Italian governments to increase production.
Closing K-12 schools is part of a broad strategy to limit public interactions and slow the spread of COVID-19 cases. But the decision is far from easy, with conflicting science about how effective such closures are weighed against the massive disruption to families鈥 lives.
There is no universal protocol for a 鈥渄eep clean鈥 in trying to eradicate the novel coronavirus. Industries are tailoring sanitation efforts in accordance with what makes sense for them.
Drs. Keith Jerome and Alex Greninger fast-tracked a test for the deadly new coronavirus weeks before it began spreading in the U.S. Their work has been key to detecting community transmission and ramping up the nation鈥檚 testing capacity.
The COVID-19 outbreak has spawned confusion among health officials, doctors and the public, especially for people who fall into the gray area for testing and deciding whether they need to quarantine themselves. Where to turn for answers about isolation and quarantine varies by locale. All this means agencies are sometimes delaying needed advice and giving people incorrect information.
There is currently no central coordination of the supply of protective garb and masks in U.S. hospital inventories. A CDC project wants hospitals to share that information for the good of all.
As the new coronavirus continues its spread through the U.S., the general public can look for guidance from millions of Americans with weakened immune systems who long ago adopted the rules of infection control that officials tout to avoid contagion.
The suicide rate for children ages 10 to 14 almost tripled in a decade and is still rising. As parents grapple with loss, some turn to activism.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
The Homeland Security secretary missed the mark with his estimate of the flu's annual U.S. mortality rate.
The spread of coronavirus disease to a skilled nursing facility in Washington state underscores the risk the deadly new virus poses in elder care facilities, where illnesses caused by more common pathogens, like seasonal influenza, often spread rapidly.
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