Health
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PublishedMarch 24, 2020
Crafters make masks to bolster dwindling hospital supplies
While the state hasn't recommended that hospital workers use handmade masks, Facebook groups are filling requests from health care providers.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2020
Key medical glove factories cutting staff 50% amid virus
Malaysia, the world's largest medical glove supplier, stopped all manufacturing last week and factories have had to seek exemptions to reopen.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2020
For New York, 58-cent medical masks now priced at $7.50 each
Hospitals have been forced to search the black market for essential equipment.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2020
Border towns see run on drug touted by Trump but unproven as coronavirus cure
The demand in Mexico is so high that pharmacists now require written prescriptions that state the medicine is for patients with conditions for which hydroxychloroquine is normally used.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2020
Volunteers sew masks for health workers facing shortages
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire is preparing kits with fabric and elastic while Joann Stores is making all of its 800-plus locations available for people to make masks and hospital gowns.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2020
Can blood from coronavirus survivors treat the newly ill?
Plasma infusions were used most famously during the 1918 flu pandemic.
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PublishedMarch 23, 2020
The coronavirus isn’t alive. That’s why it’s so hard to kill.
This novel coronavirus is a sneaky variety similar to those that have been responsible for the most destructive outbreaks of the last 100 years.
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PublishedMarch 23, 2020
For immune-suppressed patients, coronavirus a terrifying danger
‘Every time people don't do social distancing is putting me closer and closer to death,’ one patient says.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2020
Read our complete coverage of the coronavirus pandemic
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PublishedMarch 20, 2020
Young people urged to adhere to social distancing, but are they?
Some parents and educators say young people, in particular, are finding it hard to keep their distance to reduce infection risk.
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