Healthcare Economy
When 30 million confirmed COVID-19 cases globally are reached later this week, there will be a suspicion that the number is not even close to reality.
3 days ago
Temperatures have set records around the world recently, and the warmest places are routinely over 110 degrees F during the day. Extreme heat, over 120 degrees, is rare, but in this city in...
5 days ago
One of the most widely respected COVID-19 case models forecasts 2.8 million deaths by the end of the year. That means a sharp acceleration in deaths over the next three and a half months.
7 days ago
Has the COVID-19 pandemic discouraged bystanders from helping a person who may be suffering from a heart attack?
24 days ago
What are India's real confirmed case and death numbers? No one will ever know. A low testing rate and poor procedures for providing COVID-19 deaths mean the numbers are wildly low.
27 days ago
New York State may rank fourth in COVID-19 confirmed case count, but its death toll is well over twice that of any other state in the country.
1 month ago
There are several academic models of how many Americans will die of COVID-19 this year. One puts the number at well over 500,000.
1 month ago
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Over the past few days, more than 1,000 people have died from COVID-19 per day in the United States. At the current pace, the disease will kill 200,000 people by Labor Day, a figure hard to imagine a...
1 month ago
Health care officials have said that masks and social distancing are the keys to arresting the spread of COVID-19. Yet, schools in some rural areas will open without insisting on these safety...
1 month ago
If scientists say anything about arresting the spread of COVID-19, it is to maintain social distance and to wear masks. New research shows that many companies have no plans to ask employees to do so.
1 month ago
Most large cities in Spain recently emerged from a months-long lockdown as the rise in the numbers of confirmed cases and COVID-19 deaths dropped sharply. But now, new cases have started to surge...
1 month ago
The focus of medical discussions in America has largely turned to the causes, symptoms, deaths, and cures for COVID-19. Lost to a signficant extent in the discussion about health is what remains the...
1 month ago
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A growing number of scientists believe that the increase in daily deaths due to COVID-19 in America is not over.
1 month ago
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While the United States considers its COVID-19 spread with horror, two much smaller nations have suffered tremendously as well.
1 month ago
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues around the world, and the number of cases in the United States rises relentlessly, there are now three countries that have over a million confirmed cases.
1 month ago