Coronavirus immunity might last as little as 6 months and as long as 12 months, a new study from Europe indicates. The conclusion is based on statistical data from a study that looked at human immunity against four coronaviruses that are responsible for the common cold.
After days of general decline, hospitalizations have gone up slightly in Maryland, according to new state numbers. Hospitalizations grew from 1,279 to 1,315 as of Tuesday morning, an increase of 36 people. The latest numbers show there are 47,687 confirmed coronavirus cases in the state, and 2,217 people have died from the virus, with another 116 probable deaths.
Almost all doctors and nurses who got mild forms of Covid-19 produced antibodies that could prevent reinfection, according to a study conducted on hospital staff in northeastern France.
ST. LOUIS — A decade ago, when thousands of the region’s traditional manufacturing jobs disappeared, the hospitals kept hiring. It was the Great Recession. But St. Louis had morphed into a healthcare hub, and hospital systems just kept expanding, buffering the region from the worst of the collapse. This recession is different.
The World Health Organization announced Monday that it was pausing an ongoing trial of how hydroxychloroquine impacts hospitalized COVID-19 patients over safety concerns of the anti-malaria drug—medicine that President Donald Trump said he was taking for at least two weeks.
The state and local governments of New York will provide death benefits to the families of those who died from COVID-19 while working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.