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Coronavirus live updates: Stimulus may exceed $2 trillion, FEMA aid approved for New York

March 21, 2020 / By William Mansell & Ella Torres As the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases increases, some states are acting quickly by ordering variations of stay-at-home orders for residents. Oregon issued such an order on Friday night, joining states that include California, Illinois and New York. The respiratory virus, known officially as COVID-19, has reached every continent except Antarctica, …

FDA is working on treatment of coronavirus with blood from recovered patients

March 20, 2020 / By Mike Hixenbaugh Dr. Arturo Casadevall was working from home in Baltimore on Thursday when his phone started to buzz with messages from colleagues. The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration had just announced during a White House press briefing that the agency was investigating the possibility of using blood plasma donated …

RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc.® Receives Notification from Nasdaq Related to Delayed Annual Report on Form 10-K

DEERFIELD, Ill., March 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As announced on March 16, 2020, RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RTIX), a global surgical implant company, filed a Notification of Late Filing on Form 12b-25, indicating that the filing of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 (the “Form …

MEDICREA Is Protected From the Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic

March 20, 2020 LYON, France & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The MEDICREA® Group (Euronext Growth Paris: FR0004178572 – ALMED ; OTCQX Best Market –MRNTF), pioneering the transformation of spinal surgery through Artificial Intelligence, predictive modeling and patient specific implants with its UNiD™ ASI (Adaptive Spine Intelligence) proprietary software platform, services and technologies, communicates on the consequences on …

Hospitals are still scheduling elective procedures during coronavirus crisis, and frontline medical workers fear they’re infecting patients

Many U.S. hospitals are canceling or scaling back on non-essential elective surgeries to make space for patients with the COVID-19 coronavirus and ensure there are enough intensive care beds available. Some states like Ohio are even moving to ban elective procedures altogether in the coming weeks. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday said he would sign …

WHO officials warn health systems are ‘collapsing’ under coronavirus: ‘This isn’t just a bad flu season’

March 20, 2020 / William Feuer World Health Organization officials warned Friday against dismissing the coronavirus that’s swept across the globe as just a bad outbreak of the flu, saying it has overwhelmed health systems around the world in just a few weeks. “Take one look at what’s happening in some health systems around the world. Look …

‘Working at ground zero:’ How Nashville’s health care giants are sharing virus info

March 17, 2020 / Joel Stinnett, Reporter Music City’s massive health care industry is coming together to fight coronavirus. The Nashville Health Care Council has formed a COVID-19 Readiness Team aimed at helping its members share information about the flu-like disease.  The team held its first virtual meeting on March 12 with more than 50 attendees, …

The number of US coronavirus cases has topped 13,000 as testing becomes more available

 March 20, 2020 / By Dakin Andone, Christina Maxouris, Steve Almasy and Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN)-California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a statewide order Thursday, telling residents in the most populous state to stay home. It is the most restrictive order by a governor so far during the novel coronavirus pandemic. It applies to most of the state’s …

Our health system is struggling to fight coronavirus. Med students could help

March 19, 2020 / by Nathan Hollister and Rebecca Allen (CNN)As the novel coronavirus pandemic has spread, it has required rapid and creative problem solving as well as the enactment of public health measures that two months ago seemed like science fiction. We are now facing the possibility that the American health care system could …

Mask Shortage Straps Pharmacists Who Need Them To Keep Medicines Pure

March 20, 2020 / CHRISTINA JEWETT and SYDNEY LUPKIN Pharmacy staff who prepare IV drugs inside hospitals are the latest health care workers decrying a shortage of masks as they scramble to prepare medicines for patients with diagnoses ranging from cancer to COVID-19. The staff wear surgical masks while preparing liquid medications that are to be injected into patients’ …

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