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Scientists Make Breakthrough Toward Mapping All Cells in the Human Body

Researchers around the world are working to construct an atlas of all the different cells in the human body. A team in China has just released the results of a huge step toward that goal. The Human Cell Atlas is an international initiative to map all of the body’s 30-trillion-plus cells, their types, and how…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Brazil’s Bolsonaro Blames Press for Covid-19 ‘Hysteria,’ Boasts He’s Too Fit to Get Sick in Speech

Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro sparked protests with a Tuesday evening address in which he claimed the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is a media “fantasy,” demanded governors end quarantine and isolation measures, and bragged that he is so healthy he wouldn’t even know if he was infected, the Guardian reported. In his address, Bolsonaro claimed that…

Health Tom McKay

Philly Officials Say Rich Jerk Who Owns Shuttered Hospital Is Trying to Cash in on Covid-19 Emergency

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has accused the owner of a closed-down hospital of trying to profiteer off a deal to re-open during the coronavirus pandemic, while City Councilmember Helen Gym has called for government officials to just seize the property outright, WHYY reported on Tuesday. Hospitals across Philadelphia could become overwhelmed as the virus and…

Health Tom McKay

How Could Covid-19 Cause Someone to Lose Their Sense of Smell?

In early March, 27-year-old California resident Isabelle Rosa began to experience symptoms that she would have brushed off as a typical flu just a few months ago. But as her fever and dry cough lingered, and as the growing threat of the novel coronavirus to the U.S. became impossible to ignore, Rosa suspected that she…

Health Ed Cara

Man Dies, Wife Critical From Chloroquine After Hearing Trump Tout Unproven Covid-19 Treatment

An Arizona man has died and his wife is in critical condition after listening to Donald Trump promote anti-malarial drug chloroquine as a treatment for the novel coronavirus and deciding to take some themselves, CNN reported on Monday evening. Trump has repeatedly brought up chloroquine as possibly being a “very powerful” treatment for the virus…

Health Tom McKay

CDC Says Coronavirus Traces Lasted 17 Days on Cruise Ship, But No Evidence of Transmission Risk

Traces of the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus can last longer on some surfaces than previously detected by health authorities, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released on Monday. Health officials were able to detect viral RNA on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which had a major coronavirus outbreak earlier this year, up…

Health Tom McKay

Can Drugs for Malaria, HIV, and Ebola Treat Covid-19? New WHO Trial Aims to Find Out

The World Health Organization is launching a multinational clinical trial in which four existing drugs will be used to treat patients with covid-19. The project currently includes 10 countries and will potentially involve thousands of patients currently battling the coronavirus-caused disease. Vaccines to inoculate humans against covid-19 may not arrive for a year or more,…

Health George Dvorsky

Senator Rand Paul Is the Senate’s First Confirmed Coronavirus Case

Rand Paul, the Republican senator from Kentucky, has tested positive for covid-19, becoming the U.S. Senate’s first confirmed member with the disease. Paul is the third member of Congress to test positive, and serves as a striking reminder that covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is spreading far and wide throughout the country.…

Health Jody Serrano

Twitter Uses Its Blue-Checkmark System for Good and Streamlines Verification for Covid-19 Experts

Twitter has announced that it’s ramping up the verification process for its infamously arcane blue-checkmark system and prioritizing qualified health professionals in the face of this ongoing pandemic. This week, Twitter Support put out a call for accounts that are “providing credible updates around #COVID19,” the potentially deadly respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus.…

Health Alyse Stanley

Google Assistant Now Sings You Through the Proper Way to Wash Your Hands

As part of a collab with the World Health Organization, Google announced a new Assistant command Friday to walk (or, rather, sing) users through one of the most basic yet crucial defenses against spreading potentially fatal contagions: washing your hands. The right way, mind you—something most folks fail to do a whopping 97 percent of…

Health Alyse Stanley

What We Think We Know About the Coronavirus Is Going to Keep Changing

With new information about the novel coronavirus seemingly arriving every hour on the hour, it’s perfectly understandable to feel confused and discombobulated. With that in mind, here’s a mantra I’ve held close to my hopefully healthy lungs for almost three months now: The things we think we know about covid-19 are going to keep changing,…

Health Ed Cara

China Gives Half-Assed Apology for Reprimanding Whistleblower Doctor Killed by Covid-19

A Chinese doctor who was castigated for warning of the novel coronavirus during the early days of the epidemic has been exonerated, in a report prepared by Chinese government investigators. Unsurprisingly, the report does not go far enough in identifying those responsible for this atrocious and mind-bendingly irresponsible incident. Ophthalmologist Li Wenliang from the Central…

Health George Dvorsky

California Enters Statewide Lockdown Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

California’s governor announced a statewide stay-at-home order Thursday evening, making it the first U.S. state to go into lockdown in an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by this novel coronavirus outbreak. This measure follows similar “shelter in place” mandates adopted by the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles…

Health Alyse Stanley

YouTube Launches Verified Coronavirus Coverage Hub on Homepage

In response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, YouTube announced Thursday that its homepage will now feature a news shelf of trustworthy COVID-19 coverage for users to easily source up-to-date news. “We want everyone to have access to authoritative content during this trying time,” YouTube tweeted. This dedicated hub launched in 16 countries Thursday, with plans…

Health Alyse Stanley

Trump’s Trade Adviser Pushing ‘Buy American’ Order on Drugs, Medical Supplies During Pandemic

White House trade adviser and arch-protectionist ideologue Peter Navarro is trying to include buy-American provisions in the Trump administration’s coronavirus relief package that could disrupt the medical supply chain while the U.S. is already ill-prepared for a projected surge in cases, the Daily Beast reported on Thursday. The Beast reviewed a draft order of Navarro’s…

Health Tom McKay

Real Number of U.S. Coronavirus Cases Could Be as High as 150,000, New Estimates Suggest

The official tally of covid-19 in America is climbing steeply as more people are finally being tested, with at least 80,000 people tested and more than 8,000 reported cases as of March 19. But preliminary forecasts created by epidemiologists paint a far grimmer picture of the novel coronavirus’s spread in the U.S.: We may already…

Health Ed Cara

Navy Hospital Ships Promised by White House May Take Days to Weeks to Launch

Two U.S. Navy hospital ships Donald Trump said are in “tip top shape” and would be deployed “in the next week or so” to assist the response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic are actually undergoing maintenance and are not currently staffed with medical crews, NBC News reported on Wednesday. According to Bloomberg, Defense Secretary Mark…

Health Tom McKay

Tesla Told Employees to Show Up for Work on Wednesday Despite Shelter-in-Place Order

Electric car company Tesla asked employees to show up to work on Wednesday despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, including at its sprawling Fremont, California, production facility, according to emails obtained by CNBC. The coronavirus has resulted in at least 7,000 confirmed cases throughout all 50 states and Washington, D.C., with over 120 deaths from the…

Health Tom McKay

Charter Communications Employees Say Bosses Ignore Expert Covid-19 Advice, Put Profit Before Safety

Americans have entered a crucial hour in the lifespan of an epidemic that’s so far crippled stock markets and claimed thousands of lives while cutting a footpath of disease across six continents. Fortunately, covid-19 is not invincible. Public health officials say there is one surefire way to limit the spread of the disastrous virus, which…

Health Dell Cameron

Covid-19 Is Already Wreaking Havoc on the Blood Supply

Covid-19 is expected to tear through the already fragile U.S. healthcare system, as waves of pneumonia and severe respiratory illness begin to flood the country’s emergency rooms and hospitals. But the outbreak is also imperiling a vital part of our medical infrastructure: the blood supply. U.S. blood centers have been experiencing rapidly declining levels of…

Health Ed Cara

Scientists Make Breakthrough Toward Mapping All Cells in the Human Body

Brazil’s Bolsonaro Blames Press for Covid-19 ‘Hysteria,’ Boasts He’s Too Fit to Get Sick in Speech

Philly Officials Say Rich Jerk Who Owns Shuttered Hospital Is Trying to Cash in on Covid-19 Emergency

How Could Covid-19 Cause Someone to Lose Their Sense of Smell?

Man Dies, Wife Critical From Chloroquine After Hearing Trump Tout Unproven Covid-19 Treatment

CDC Says Coronavirus Traces Lasted 17 Days on Cruise Ship, But No Evidence of Transmission Risk

Can Drugs for Malaria, HIV, and Ebola Treat Covid-19? New WHO Trial Aims to Find Out

Senator Rand Paul Is the Senate’s First Confirmed Coronavirus Case

Twitter Uses Its Blue-Checkmark System for Good and Streamlines Verification for Covid-19 Experts

Google Assistant Now Sings You Through the Proper Way to Wash Your Hands

What We Think We Know About the Coronavirus Is Going to Keep Changing

China Gives Half-Assed Apology for Reprimanding Whistleblower Doctor Killed by Covid-19

California Enters Statewide Lockdown Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

YouTube Launches Verified Coronavirus Coverage Hub on Homepage

Trump’s Trade Adviser Pushing ‘Buy American’ Order on Drugs, Medical Supplies During Pandemic

Real Number of U.S. Coronavirus Cases Could Be as High as 150,000, New Estimates Suggest

Navy Hospital Ships Promised by White House May Take Days to Weeks to Launch

Tesla Told Employees to Show Up for Work on Wednesday Despite Shelter-in-Place Order

Charter Communications Employees Say Bosses Ignore Expert Covid-19 Advice, Put Profit Before Safety

Covid-19 Is Already Wreaking Havoc on the Blood Supply

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