WASHINGTON (AP) — This time, he wore a mask. Vice President Mike Pence donned a face covering Thursday as he toured a General Motors/Ventec ventilator production facility in Indiana after coming under fire for failing to wear one earlier this week in violation of Mayo Clinic policy.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Professor Andrew Pekosz discusses testing of existing medicines as coronavirus treatments, and the importance of antibody research and testing. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
More than six weeks after statewide social distancing measures began to take effect, the number of hospitalizations for COVID-19 infections is stuck in a stubbornly high place — about 3,800 — a figure that has barely budged in two weeks, dropping 1 percent on Thursday. And the daily death toll is at once tragic and numbing.
The U.S. entered a grim new chapter in the coronavirus saga with the recent deaths by suicide of two health care workers on the front lines of the fight against Covid-19 in New York City: emergency medical technician John Mondello and emergency physician Lorna Breen.
The Capitol’s attending physician said Thursday that coronavirus tests will be available for staffers and senators who are ill, but not enough to proactively test all 100 senators as the chamber comes back in session, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Baptist Health South Florida and biotech company RESTEM announced this week that three COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome are the first to successfully be treated in the U.S. with umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells under an emergency approval from the FDA.