Those living in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities are the people most susceptible to infectious diseases. So, it is no surprise that nursing home residents make up a huge part of the U.S.’s COVID-19 deaths. At the end of April 2020, COVID-19 deaths in nursing home reached nearly 12,000.1 According to The Washington… Read More »
Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Thursday there are questions and concerns about how children might be contributing to the spread of the coronavirus. “It might be that thousands of kids are actually getting coronavirus, tens of thousands of kids, and we just aren’t seeing it because the kids are getting a very mild illness or they’re… Read More »
The human gut microbiota consists of trillions of bacteria, fungi and virus constituting an inner chemical factory producing a multitude of microbial compounds affecting immunity, neurobiology and metabolism of the human host. It has for long been known that imbalances in the composition of gut microbes link with a variety of chronic human disorders spanning… Read More »
Structural reforms in Egypt readied its economy for the impact of the ongoing global pandemic, according to the country’s minister for international cooperation. “We entered this crisis with fiscal buffers as well as foreign reserve buffers, which helped weather the first shock,” Rania al-Mashat told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble this week. “If it weren’t for those comprehensive reforms on the… Read More »