Halle Berry is being extra cautious about her health amid the ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In a new interview with Variety, the 54-year-old Oscar winner talked about staying healthy during the coronavirus outbreak and how seriously she takes social distancing and quarantining at home. Berry, who has diabetes, said she feels "at risk" due […]
Dozens of U.S. Hospitals May Defy FDA’s Directive on COVID Plasma
Dozens of major hospitals across the U.S. are grappling with whether to ignore a federal decision allowing broader emergency use of blood plasma from recovered COVID patients to treat the disease in favor of dedicating their resources to a gold-standard clinical trial that could help settle the science for good. As many as 45 hospitals […]
Celebrities Who Have Tested Positive for Coronavirus
Robert Pattinson The actor has tested positive just days after his movie The Batman resumed production in England, according to Vanity Fair. A rep for the actor, 34, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. Warner Bros. did not specify who on set was affected but did tell Vanity Fair in a statement on Sept. 3, […]
Coronavirus Is The Third Leading Cause of Death Among Black Americans, Report Says
The coronavirus is now the third leading cause of death among Black Americans, topped only by heart disease and cancer, according to a report from the Brookings Institute published earlier this month. The report, titled “The Hamilton Project, Racial Economic Inequality Amid the COVID-19 Crisis,” was co-authored by Trevon Logan, professor of economics at the […]
Why Dr. Sanjay Gupta Is Not Sending His Kids Back to School
High Number of Coronavirus Cases in the Area Finally, Gupta outlined how Georgia’s Fulton County, where his family lives, is “simply not there yet” in terms of having the number of coronavirus cases under control. The county has not met the guidelines for full-time, face-to-face instruction. The guidelines require “the county rate of new cases […]
Expect 'Difficult' Winter with Mix of Coronavirus and Flu, Says CDC Director
One of the nation's top health officials is warning that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) could worsen in coming months. On Tuesday, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke at a webinar for Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, when he said Americans should brace for what […]
Coronavirus pandemic still accelerating: WHO chief
The novel coronavirus pandemic is still accelerating and its effects will be felt for decades, the World Health Organization’s director-general told an online conference on Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual health forum organised by Dubai authorities that the greatest threat facing the world is not the virus itself, but “the lack of global […]
Ding Dong, the doctor is here! Like Cuba, with a house to visit Covid-19 fights
In Germany, the government wants to curb the rampant Corona pandemic with a mobile App, other countries rely on large-scale testing or thermal imaging cameras for measuring temperature of passers-by. Cuba has a different approach: day-to-day to go on the Caribbean island of thousands of Doctors and medical students, door-to-door looking for Infected. “We ask […]
Scientists around the world are already fighting the next pandemic
If a two-year-old child living in poverty in India or Bangladesh gets sick with a common bacterial infection, there is more than a 50% chance an antibiotic treatment will fail. Somehow the child has acquired an antibiotic resistant infection—even to drugs to which they may never have been exposed. How? Unfortunately, this child also lives […]
Looking for ways to protect against pandemic PTSD
As many places start to look forward to life after the first wave of the coronavirus, another type of illness could be about to follow in its wake. “We’re going to have many more mental health issues as time goes on,” said Dr. Rima Styra, a psychiatrist at Toronto’s University Health Network and associate professor […]