NEW YORK – Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Between 10 percent and 20 percent of U.S. coronavirus cases are health care workers, though they tended to be hospitalized at lower rates than other patients, officials reported Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported… Read More »
FILE PHOTO: A staff member of a restaurant, wearing a protective face mask following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), waits for customers at an almost empty alley at Ginza shopping and amusement district in Tokyo, Japan April 2, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato TOKYO (Reuters) – More than 130 people were newly infected with the… Read More »
The latest figures reported by each government’s health authority as of coronavirus Wednesday in Beijing. * Mainland China: 2004 deaths among 74,185 cases, mostly in the central province of Hubei * Hong Kong: 58 cases, 2 deaths * Macao: 10 * Japan: 614 cases, including 542 from a cruise ship docked in Yokohama, 1 death… Read More »
The Chinese city of Wuhan is scrambling to complete construction on two hospitals that will treat coronavirus victims, according to state media. The outbreak has killed 213 people and infected nearly 10,000. The virus is believed to have originated in Wuhan, a city of 11 million, and most of China’s cases have been reported there.… Read More »
By Jessica Hamzelou The new virus belongs to the coronavirus familyALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A deadly new coronavirus has now reached at least 14 countries. As of Monday 27 January, there are 2794 confirmed cases of the virus, while tens of thousands of people are being kept under medical supervision around the world. Eighty-one people… Read More »
If there’s one thing a majority of Americans can agree on, it’s that healthcare costs are too expensive, and they want upfront pricing. HealthPocket released results today of a pulse survey which found that 85% of U.S. adults think that healthcare costs in general are too high. Underscoring that point, 51% of those surveyed have… Read More »