Within a month, New Hampshire hospitals’ bed capacity could be maxed out if the rate of new COVID-19 infections doesn’t recede. As the disease’s second wave hits, administrators, clinicians and public health officials said lessons learned from the first COVID-19 spike make them confident they can maintain care in all areas. But this is 2020. Things could change.
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Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators
Sen. Scott Jensen, R-Minn., a physician in Minnesota, was interviewed by "The Ingraham Angle" host Laura Ingraham on April 8 on Fox News and claimed hospitals get paid more if Medicare patients are...
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Doctors begin to crack COVID's mysterious long-term effects
Nearly a year into the global coronavirus pandemic, scientists, doctors and patients are beginning to unlock a puzzling phenomenon: For many patients, including young ones who never required...
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Alzheimer's research looks at hot spots across the U.S.
With the latest report out this week, scientists and medical researchers are increasingly examining the role of location in prevalence of the disease.
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Damaged sense of smell in COVID patients holds clues to how recovery might work
Scientists are uncovering clues to explain how the coronavirus attacks the nervous system by studying a bizarre side effect of the infection that distorts sufferers’ sense of smell for months on...
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4 Ethical Dilemmas for Healthcare Organizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
There has already been rationing of testing in the United States and rationing of critical care resources is likely if severely ill COVID-19 patients surge significantly. ...
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