Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. When the coronavirus first started to spread from its origins in China earlier this year, the widely preached consensus was that it did not infect – or at least did not gravely harm – children and young adults. However, […]
Coronavirus takes drastic toll on health-care providers across United States
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As the coronavirus continues to tear through the United States, front-line health-care workers are not only in the line of fire, but they are also caught amid growing concern that medical facilities themselves could become hubs for transmission. What’s […]
Coronavirus takes drastic toll on health-care providers across United States
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As the coronavirus continues to tear through the United States, front-line health-care workers are not only in the line of fire, but they are also caught amid growing concern that medical facilities themselves could become hubs for transmission. What’s […]
Will ‘herd immunity’ work against coronavirus?
As the novel coronavirus spreads through much of the globe, the debate over the effectiveness of “herd immunity” continues to swirl in public health and policy circles. So what exactly is this strategy when it comes to fighting an infectious disease? “Herd immunity is protection in a community from an infectious disease when a large percentage […]
US pharmaceutical industry aims to wrest some drug production back from China
The dramatic proliferation of the coronavirus, also termed COVID-19, has U.S. officials on an accelerated mission to bring the production of life-saving medicines back to U.S. shores and away from the control of the Chinese government. “The U.S. is uncharacteristically overreliant on drugs from China, and it’s not a sustainable model,” Das Nobel, founder and CEO of […]
Kataeb Hezbollah, the shadowy Iranian-backed militia behind attacks on US troops in Iraq
While the coronavirus pandemic spreads around the globe, U.S. troops stationed in Iraq continue to battle the threat of Iranian-backed militias, in recent days going head-to-head with what is considered one of the most shadowy and lethal units: Kataeb Hezbollah. On Monday night, rockets hit a base in Iraq again, the third attack in the […]
What countries have not declared any known cases of coronavirus?
It’s been almost three months since Chinese authorities first declared the existence of coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, and it has since spawned to 127 countries and territories in what the World Health Organization (WHO) now classifies as a global pandemic. CLICK HERE FOR FOX NEWS’ COMPLETE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE So what countries, as of Friday […]
Why do some countries still have next to no recorded outbreaks of coronavirus?
While coronavirus sweeps around the world, taking thousands of lives, there are glaring regions that have no – or very few, compared to their population – known cases. In examining the spread of the pandemic, Africa – a continent of 54 nations and a total population of over 1.2 billion – as of Friday documented less than 100 cases, and […]
Coronavirus testing may be impacted by shortage of crucial materials
As coronavirus continues to spread across the United States, the quest to combat the global pandemic is being hampered by testing kit shortages and a fear that the materials needed to make more may soon run dry. Officials estimate that only around 8,500 people in the U.S. have thus far been tested for the pathogen, […]
App aims to limit coronavirus exposure in medical waiting rooms
As medical waiting rooms in some countries overflow amid the coronavirus pandemic, ratcheting up the risk of more people being exposed to the deadly pathogen, two physicians have launched a new app called DocClocker, with the hopes of curtailing such vulnerability. “The waiting-room-management solution has been in research and development for the past three years. Long […]
