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.
Experts answer questions about ways to deal with coronavirus
Infectious disease experts, aerosol scientists and microbiologists answer questions about the risks of coming into contact with the virus while on an essential trip outside.
Should you change clothes and take a shower after coming home from the grocery store?
Patients suffering from heart attacks, strokes, and appendicitis vanish from hospitals
Mount Sinai cardiovascular surgeon, John Puskas repurposed his 60-bed cardiac unit to accommodate COVID-19 patients. He was stumped to see that nearly all the beds were now occupied by victims of the coronavirus, but where had all the heart patients gone? Patients with crushing chest pain weren’t coming through the ER.
Hospitals furlough staff, reduce physician salaries as they wait for CARES funds
Hospitals now need to cut staff, salaries and benefits due to lack of funding even as the American Hospital Association again asks the federal government to get $100 billion in federal stimulus money to providers at the earliest.
CMS makes available a loan of $34 billion to providers and suppliers
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has decided to deliver close to $34 billion this week to providers to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.