With coronavirus, the hospital to which you are admitted is most likely the hospital where you will stay. We don’t have “emerging virus” hospital designations like we do for trauma centers, cardiac surgery and newborn nurseries. As hospitals exceed their surge capacities, your ambulance could be diverted from one hospital to another. Perhaps from a regional center to a community hospital.
Vaccine maker Novavax Inc said on Monday it has pushed back the start of a U.S.-based, late-stage trial for its experimental COVID-19 vaccine and now expects it to begin in the coming weeks instead of November.
My painful excursion into the world of dueling infections started on a Tuesday afternoon with a scratchy throat and a mild-yet-annoying cough. I chalked it up to fall in Kentucky, where sunny afternoons in the mid 70s can be followed by freezing temperatures at night. I’m no stranger to respiratory infections, having lived for years with the triple threat of allergies, asthma, and low immunity.
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Sunday that the coronavirus pandemic will "get worse" in the weeks ahead, but noted that the first vaccines would likely be available to vulnerable populations by mid-December.
United Airlines Holdings Inc. on Friday began operating charter flights to position doses of Pfizer Inc.’s PFE 1.92% Covid-19 vaccine for quick distribution if the shots are approved by regulators, according to people familiar with the matter.
Susan Baker volunteered for Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine trial to seek protection from Covid-19. For the same reason, she may drop out of the study. The nurse practitioner from North Carolina has treated Covid-19 patients at her hospital. She takes care of people at high risk, including dialysis patients and her husband and father, both of whom have medical conditions. If she catches the virus and spreads it to anyone vulnerable, “I don’t know if I could forgive myself,” she said.