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‘Silent Hypoxemia’ and Other Curious Clinical Observations in COVID-19
April 16, 2020
Gary S. Ferenchick, MD, MS, a professor of medicine at Michigan State University, interviewed his daughter, Hannah R.B. Ferenchick, MD, an emergency and critical care physician working on the frontline in a busy Detroit hospital, about some of the unusual clinical features of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.
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Senate Dems call for nationwide COVID-19 testing strategy, more funding
April 16, 2020
Senate Democrats want to add $30 billion in new emergency funding for COVID-19 testing.
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COVID-19 cases highlight longstanding racial disparities in health care
April 16, 2020
Data on higher infection and death rates in African Americans from COVID-19 may serve as a call to action.
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Opinion
Call for volunteers for palliative care in COVID-19
April 16, 2020
NYC Health + Hospitals needs volunteers trained in palliative care to help patients remotely via telemedicine.
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Pandemic strains blood supply for COVID-19 and noninfected patients
April 16, 2020
“There needs to be a significant call out for people to make every effort to donate blood.”
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COVID-19 PPE-related skin effects described in survey of Chinese doctors, nurses
April 16, 2020
Almost 75% of doctors and nurses in and around Wuhan, China, reported skin problems during a single week in early February.
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Severe COVID-19 may lower hemoglobin levels
April 15, 2020
The authors suggest that hemoglobin values might provide a prognostic indicator of COVID-19 severity.
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COVID-19: When health care personnel become patients
April 15, 2020
For physicians and others in the health care industry, almost half of all exposures occurred outside of work.
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FDA approves emergency use of saliva test to detect COVID-19
April 15, 2020
“We can significantly increase the number of people tested each and every day as self-collection of saliva is quicker and more scalable than swab collections,” Dr. Andrew I. Brooks said.
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Social distancing comes to the medicine wards
April 15, 2020
The risks of traditional patient visits during the coronavirus pandemic include spread to both patients and staff.
