Lisa Taylor receives a COVID-19 vaccination from RN Jose Muniz as she takes part in a vaccine study at Research Centers of America on August 07, 2020 in Hollywood, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images A group of drugmakers competing to bring a coronavirus vaccine to market plan to issue a public statement as soon… Read More: Drugmakers seek to reassure public on coronavirus vaccine as concerns… »
Bloomberg—How big is the coronavirus outbreak? A lot bigger than we were initially told, it turns out. On Thursday, confirmed cases of Covid-19 in China’s Hubei Province—the epidemic’s epicenter—jumped by almost 15,000. It’s not that there was a sudden wave of new infections. Rather, the increase reflects a change in how China counts patients; it… Read More: Concerns rise that the system for diagnosing epidemics is failing »
The vast majority of U.S. hospitals and health systems — 86%, all told — are concerned about their supply of face masks and other personal protective equipment as the global spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus strains the supply chain. According to purchasing data in Premier’s survey, hospitals and health systems across the country typically buy… Read More: Coronavirus concerns have 86% of health systems concerned about PPE… »
As a recruiter, Emily Yeager greets a lot of people every day. But there’s one handshake she’ll never forget. It was early 2010, during the height of the swine flu outbreak — the colloquial term for what was then a novel variant of the H1N1 influenza virus — and Yeager had a meeting with a… Read More: Swine flu survivors recount terrifying pandemic as coronavirus concerns grow »