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The Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing an Anxiety Pandemic

March 26, 2020 / BY JEFFREY KLUGER  As the physical coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, an emotional pandemic is following fast in its wake. When the whole world is going to pieces, it’s awfully hard for the human mind—a fragile thing in the best of times—to cope, and more and more, doctors are reporting the spread …

‘This is a war’: NYC doctors describe fight against coronavirus as cases surge

March 26, 2020 / By Daniella Silva and Jareen Imam Overfilled waiting rooms packed with people who are contagious. Patients waiting six hours to be seen. Others on stretchers waiting 50 to 60 hours for a bed. Doctors desperately trying to get more ventilators. That is what it’s like to be on the front lines of …

Google sees 350 percent increase in phishing websites during COVID-19 pandemic, report reveals

March 26, 2020 / By Christopher Carbone | Fox News Hackers have been trying to take advantage of the coronavirus crisis, with a new report revealing a 350 percent increase in phishing websites over the last three months. Atlas VPN gathered the numbers of phishing websites detected by Google and compared them. In January, Google registered a total of 149,195 active phishing websites, …

Coronavirus has now killed more than 1,000 people in the US. But health officials say the peak is yet to come

March 26, 2020 / By Holly Yan and Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) – While the US death toll from coronavirus has now topped 1,000, exhausted hospital workers are turning to increasingly desperate measures to combat the virus. New York Bellevue Hospital Center created a makeshift morgue using tents and refrigerated trucks. At Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, 13 patients …

Biggest Unemployment Surge Ever: Record Weekly Claims Top 3.28 Million

March 26, 2020 / Sarah Hansen, Forbes Staff Topline: Weekly jobless claims surged to 3.28 million this week, 3 million more than last week; it’s a sobering indication of just how badly the coronavirus has already impacted the American economy.  Weekly jobless claims surged to 3.28 million, versus 1.5 million expected, for the week ending March 21.This week’s …

Coronavirus Will Have Long-Lasting Impacts on the U.S. Health Care System—And the Poorest Will Suffer Most

March 26, 2020 / BY JAMIE DUCHARME  When Dr. Mark Lewis has to tell a cancer patient they’re dying, he tries to do so as compassionately as possible, usually offering a hug or a hand to hold. The thought of doing so by phone, he says, once felt heartbreakingly impersonal. But in the face of the …

New York City hospital staff seen wearing trash bags for protection, co-worker dies from coronavirus

March 26, 2020 / By Greg Norman | Fox News A need for safety equipment at a New York City hospital reportedly became so unbearable this week that nurses there resorted to wearing trash bags as protection against the coronavirus. The unusual scene was documented in a photo shared on social media of three nurses inside Mount Sinai West, according to the …

HHS implements anti-price gouging order amid coronavirus outbreak

March 26, 2020 / By Brooke Singman | Fox News The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday implemented President Trump’s executive order to prevent the hoarding of certain health and medical resources necessary to respond to the coronavirus outbreak. HHS Secretary Alex Azar on Thursday announced a list of certain health and medical resources subject to the hoarding …

Healthcare leaders fear COVID-19’s impact once the storm has passed

March 26, 2020 / Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright Healthcare leaders across the country are in pure survival mode right now. It’s hard to think beyond the next few weeks as we scramble to adapt to the new world of COVID-19 and brace for the impact on our hospitals and providers. At the same time, though, it’s …

Hospitals weigh blanket DNR orders for coronavirus patients amid equipment shortages: report

March 26, 2020 / By Brie Stimson | Fox News As hospitals across the country face shortages of personal protective equipment due to surges of coronavirus patients, health care professionals are reportedly privately discussing the possibility of a blanket do-not-resuscitate policy for infected patients to mitigate the risks for those responding to a code blue. “If we risk their well-being in service of one …

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