New York City had four times the number of deaths as expected during its Covid-19 outbreak, according to a new study, including thousands of excess deaths that may not be attributed directly to the virus but to its effect on the health-care system, city services and other factors.
The Health and Human Services Secretary and U.S. Surgeon General don’t plan to self-quarantine for now. Their agencies are providing that update, after a coronavirus case at the White House. The agencies say the men have tested negative for covid-19. A spokesperson for Surgeon General Jerome Adams says he didn’t interact with the person who tested positive for coronavirus.
"Lost on the Frontline" is a collaboration between The Guardian and Kaiser Health News that aims to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who die of COVID-19, and to understand why so many are falling victim to the pandemic.
Urgent care provider CityMD accidentally told 15,000 people in New York and New Jersey who tested positive for coronavirus antibodies that they’re immune to the virus, despite what public health officials say. Public health officials say it remains unclear whether those with antibodies against the coronavirus are immune to reinfection. Since CNBC reached out for comment, CityMD has corrected the language and is reaching out to affected patients, a spokesman said.
New York City saw 24,000 more deaths than were expected between late March and early May, likely due to the coronavirus and its impacts on the health care system, according to a report issued Monday by the city’s department of health.
When Lawrence Garbuz got sick in February, he thought he just had a cough. But Garbuz had the coronavirus, which left him in a coma and earned him the title of the New York area's "patient zero." In an exclusive interview with Savannah Guthrie that aired Monday on "TODAY," Garbuz spoke about his experience, saying the disease that almost killed him "really wasn't on my mind" as he was falling ill.