A woman was found dead at home for atleast 12 hours, with only her 4-year-old daughter by her side. Her early reports revealed that she was 42, a mammogram technician at a hospital and most certainly a COVID-19 patient.
Trump’s decision to exit from the World Health Organization will have serious consequences
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization is bound to damage global efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and other deadly diseases such as polio, HIV, and tuberculosis.
FDA has authorized its first COVID-19 test for screening people without symptoms
The FDA has authorized its first COVID-19 diagnostic for the purpose of broad-based screening. This would include people who haven’t shown any symptoms and those who don’t suspect having come in contact with someone suffering from COVID-19.
More than 100 industry groups ask Trump administration to reverse a new policy
A letter was signed by more than 100 public health, medical, research, legal and science organizations asking the Trump administration to reverse a new policy that directs hospitals to report COVID-19 patient data to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
CMS releases Medicare payment rates for CPT codes for COVID-19 tests
CMS released the payments rates for new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, which is developed by the American Medical Association (AMA) for COVID-19 diagnostic tests.