Gilead Sciences Inc.’s antiviral drug has been cleared by U.S. regulators for emergency use in Covid-19 patients, President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House Friday, Bloomberg News reports.
As coronavirus infections have slowed or fallen short of worst-case predictions, the globe is dotted with unused or barely used temporary hospitals. The Navy’s two hospital ships have been virtually unused. Mercy sits idle in Los Angeles, and Comfort left New York on Thursday after treating 182 patients.
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to last between 18 and 24 months, scientists from the University of Minnesota have predicted. In a report published Thursday, researchers from the university’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) stressed that Covid-19 was more contagious than the flu and was likely to continue circulating after a first wave this spring.
Front line workers will not be required to pay for mental health services, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced during Friday’s press conference. Cuomo said nearly half of Americans have said their mental health has suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic; having a job and being able to move about freely one day and jobless, working from home, and stuck inside the next day has taken its toll.
A New York coronavirus patient died after inexperienced medical residents rushed to the front line of the pandemic set her ventilator too high, according to a report.