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Apple and Google will shut down coronavirus tracing app when pandemic ends, companies say

April 24, 2020 / By Christopher Carbone | Fox News Apple and Google say they will shut down their coronavirus contact tracing app after the pandemic is under control, as the tech giants strive to address ongoing privacy concerns about the effort. The two Silicon Valley giants on Friday announced a series of adjustments in the effort that they’ve dubbed “Exposure Notification” — …

Medtronic’s minimally invasive business to exhibit slow growth despite high demand for ventilators, says GlobalData

Following Medtronic’s announcement on the impact of COVID-19 on its business; Aliyah Farouk, Medical Device Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers her view: “GlobalData expects Medtronic’s minimally invasive business to exhibit slow growth despite the high demand for certain product lines such as ventilators. Medtronic has increased its production for these …

What we can (and can’t) take away from New York’s antibody testing results

April 23, 2020 / By Denise Chow New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday offered what appeared to be a surprising statistic on just how broadly the outbreak of the coronavirus has hit the state: Almost 14 percent of people tested in a new study were found to have antibodies to the disease it causes. It might be …

The National Divide Over COVID-19 Testing Threatens Our Progress

April 24, 2020 / BY DR. ASHISH K. JHA COVID-19 is dividing the country in many dangerous – even deadly – ways and now, those divisions threaten to further stall urgently needed action. At a time when science and data must drive policy – and we have seen that such policy works – too many are instead …

Researchers identify how Coronavirus enters body

April 24, 2020 / Modern Healthcare Researchers have found two types of cells inside the nose express high levels of the genes encoding proteins the SARS-CoV-2 uses to enter cells, suggesting they are the likely entry points for the virus. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, uses its spike protein to bind to cellular receptors in …

Silony Medical’s Process Advisory Board

by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed., April 24, 2020 What can a scrub tech tell you about instrument design? Quite a bit, says Constantin Schön, Managing Director of Silony Medical, a manufacturer of medical instruments that has put the horse before the cart. “We start from the premise that the ones driving instrument design should be …

Mass General/Harvard Lab Using Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor to Decontaminate N95 Masks

by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed., April 24, 2020 They didn’t secure 500,000 test kits from South Korea. They did something equally and perhaps even more exciting—they created a way for nearly any facility to become self-reliant in the decontamination of N95 respirator masks during a global shortage of personal protective equipment. When Lauren Hoogendyk, Executive …

Tucker Carlson: Coronavirus crisis has exposed how vulnerable and dependent the US is on China

April 24, 2020 / By Tucker Carlson | Fox News If you’re under the age of 100, you have never lived in a world where the United States was not the most powerful nation on Earth. For a century, America’s dominance has shaped the globe. Many of our most basic assumptions, which we think of as Americans …

US coronavirus death toll passes 50,000

April 24, 2020 / By Chris Irvine | Fox News The United States’ coronavirus-related death toll passed 50,000 Friday morning, after more than 3,000 people died Thursday. A tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University put the death toll at 50,031, with more than 869,000 cases across the country. The country with the next highest death toll is Italy, …

Coronavirus outbreak: Northwestern Memorial testing drug for severe COVID cases

April 24, 2020 / Modern Healthcare (Crain’s Chicago Business) Northwestern Memorial Hospital is among medical centers testing a rheumatoid arthritis drug as a possible treatment for severely or critically ill COVID-19 patients. The Streeterville hospital is enrolling patients in a global clinical trial studying sarilumab, also known by the brand name Kevzara, Northwestern Medicine said …

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