Researchers in a handful of countries are testing a century-old tuberculosis vaccine to see if it can give a boost to the immune system to help it fight off the novel coronavirus now causing the COVID-19 pandemic.
People with pre-existing conditions like diabetes, heart disease and lung damage are more likely to have a severe COVID-19 coronavirus infection, but significant numbers of healthy people are still hospitalized.
As the country faces a surge in those infected with the covid-19 virus, health care workers are increasingly at risk of getting sick and even dying. Foreign health care workers could help address this crisis.
UnitedHealth Group’s UnitedHealthcare is “waiving member cost-sharing for the treatment of COVID-19” through May 31 for its fully-insured commercial, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid plans.”
Despite criticism from Washington, automakers are moving much faster to build emergency medical equipment than they did to set up the arsenal of democracy