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BOGOTA (Reuters) – South America is the most worrying region for COVID-19 infections, as cases mount in nearly every country, the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday. “Nowhere are infections as worrisome as in South America,” PAHO Director Carissa Etienne said during PAHO’s weekly press conference. Intensive care units are nearing […]
In a study that looked at racial differences in outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit, researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit found that patients of color had a lower 28-day mortality than white patients. Race, however, was not a factor in overall hospital mortality, length of stay in the ICU […]
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – As Brazil’s coronavirus outbreak spirals out of control, the country is facing a dangerous new shortage, threatening to drive fatalities even higher: a lack of staff in intensive care units. Some medical professionals are burned out after months of grueling, soul-sapping work. Others are simply unable to keep up […]
Major changes in bereavement care have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a flood of demand for help from bereaved people, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. The first major study of pandemic-related changes in bereavement care has found that the switch to remote working has helped some services to reach out, […]
A preprint study, showing that vitamin D (calcifediol, [25(OH)D3]) given to patients hospitalized with COVID-19 reduces mortality by 60%, has been met with a raft of criticism from experts who urge caution when interpreting the results. Despite being published as a preprint on January 22, The Lancet has now rejected the paper in its current […]
A tenth of all intensive care unit patients worldwide, and many critical patients with COVID-19, have acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Therapeutic hypothermia, an intentional cooling of the body, has been suggested as a way to improve ARDS. New research by Chiara Autilio and colleagues in the lab of Jesus Perez-Gil at the Complutense University […]