Louisiana health officials on Tuesday reported that the state had recorded its highest-yet number of deaths from coronavirus over a 24-hour period, even as the rate of new cases has fallen in the state.
More than 20% of Iowa's positive COVID-19 diagnoses are from health care workers, the deputy director of the Iowa Department of Public Health said Tuesday. The revelation comes as Iowa's number of positive tests passed 1,000 and another Iowan died from the disease, Gov. Kim Reynolds said at her daily news conference.
President Donald Trump has upended the panel of federal watchdogs overseeing implementation of the $2 trillion coronavirus law, tapping a replacement for the Pentagon official who was supposed to lead the effort.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday that 731 more people had died in New York State, the largest single-day increase in deaths since the crisis began. The grim tally followed two days in which the numbers appeared to have leveled off. The governor emphasized that death was a lagging indicator in the fight against the virus, and pointed to a falling rate of hospitalizations and said that the state was still projecting that the spread of the virus was plateauing.
A Brooklyn doctor is warning that critically ill coronavirus patients are being inadvertently harmed by the very same breathing machines being used to keep them alive. In a video posted on YouTube, Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell, an emergency medicine physician at Maimonides Medical Center, said that “we are putting breathing tubes in people and putting them on ventilators and dialing up the pressure to open up their lungs.”
Hospitals across the country reported serious shortages of tests and protective equipment in the fight against coronavirus and concerns about being able to keep health workers safe, according to a new inspector general report.