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FCC grants GE Healthcare waiver to expedite medical equipment during COVID-19 pandemic

May 12, 2020 / Jeff Lagasse, Associate Editor The Federal Communications Commission today granted GE Healthcare’s request for a waiver to allow the importation, marketing and operation of certain GE medical devices from new suppliers for use in healthcare facilities. The order, which was issued by the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology, waives certain …

Richard Iorio, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Chief of Total Joints, Discusses “Reopening”

by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Looking for signposts as you make your way through the jungle of reopening elective surgeries? Thanks to a team of orthopedic researchers from Albany Medical Center, Beth Israel Lahey Health, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, there is now published information on how an economic recovery for the orthopedic field might …

Covid-19 isn’t just a respiratory disease. It hits the whole body

May 12, 2020 / By Maggie Fox, CNN (CNN) – The patient had been relatively fine for the first 10 days he was down with Covid-19. Just 38, he didn’t fit the description of people at high risk of complications from the new coronavirus. “He had mild pulmonary symptoms that he was just sitting at home …

Coronavirus app finds loss of taste and smell may be better indicators than fever, cough: study

May 13, 2020 / By Chris Ciaccia | Fox News A new study from researchers in the U.S. and the U.K. have found that a crowdsourcing app that has users self-report COVID-19 symptoms could be useful for predicting future cases. The study, published in Nature Medicine, notes the app COVID Symptom Study had 2.6 million users after three weeks across the U.S, …

Read the CDC Guidance on How to Reopen U.S. Economy That Was ‘Shelved’ By White House Officials

May 13, 2020 / BY JASON DEAREN AND MIKE STOBBE / AP (GAINESVILLE, Fla.) — Advice from the top U.S. disease control experts on how to safely reopen businesses and institutions during the coronavirus pandemic was more detailed and restrictive than the plan released by the White House last month. The guidance, which was shelved by Trump administration …

Wuhan to Test All 11 Million Residents After Handful of New Infections

May 13, 2020 / BY CHRIS BLAKE AND LAURAN NEERGAARD / AP (BANGKOK) — Authorities in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic began were moving forward Wednesday with efforts to test all 11 million residents for the virus within 10 days after a handful of fresh infections were found there. The U.S. government’s top infectious …

Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Moves to Phase 2 Testing, and Gets Fast-Track Approval From the U.S. Government

May 12, 2020 / BY ALICE PARK  On May 12, Moderna Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, Mass., received fast-track approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273. Days earlier, the FDA gave the company the green light to proceed to Phase 2 testing of the vaccine, which is expected to begin shortly. The company …

Live updates: Countries that reopened are closing down again as coronavirus infections spike

May 13, 2020 / By Teo Armus, Antonia Noori Farzan, Rick Noack, John Wagner, Lateshia Beachum, Miriam Berger, Mark Berman and Brittany Shammas As officials around the world explore ways to safely loosen pandemic restrictions, some countries that had already reopened are closing down again after sudden spikes in infections. Among the latest: Saudi Arabia, which announced a total lockdown for the end of Ramadan …

Live updates: California universities move to virtual instruction for the Fall; U.S. coronavirus death toll surpasses 81,500

May 12, 2020 / By Lateshia Beachum, John Wagner, Kim Bellware, Marisa Iati, Siobhán O’Grady, Miriam Berger, Ruby Mellen, Meryl Kornfield, Samantha Pell and Candace Buckner California State University, with 23 campuses and more than 480,000 students, on Tuesday became the largest university system in the country to declare that it intends to go without in-person instruction for most classes in the fall because of the …

Feds Warn Airlines Once Again To Offer Customers Refunds

May 12, 2020 / DAVID SCHAPER Amid a huge increase in consumer complaints, the federal government is once again reminding airlines of their obligation to offer customers refunds for canceled flights. At the same time, regulators say they will provide airlines some relief from a requirement that carriers continue flying into cities where demand for …

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