Health Care System

Number of coronavirus cases growing exponentially says WHO chief, death rate could reach 50,000 deaths in next few days

About 75 percent of the individuals who are identified as asymptomatic go on to develop symptoms.

Can coronavirus stay viable on food and infect you? Understanding the novel virus is important to answers these questions

Experts say there’s no evidence that COVID-19 sickens people through their digestive systems.

Living on a prayer: Doctors, nurses do not have protective gear to wear while fighting coronavirus

Doctors in Haryana contributed 1,000 rupees, to an informal COVID-19 fund, to buy masks and other protective gear.

Israel has begun testing a coroanvirus vaccine prototype at a bio-chemical defence laboratory

PM Benjamin Netanyahu said that IIBR has made progress in designing the vaccine and will be starting animal trials.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Mass disinfection of people is a health hazard says disease experts

They say it can be toxic for people as it is not good for the skin, mouth and eyes as it will cause irritation.

Almost 60 percent of patients who were confirmed positive for coronavirus, lost their sense of smell, taste

The research team developed a model to identify to predict which combination of symptoms was most accurate in finding if someone was infected.

WHO reminds governments, hospitals to continue to provide essential health services despite Coronavirus crisis

Essential health services must continue, babies are still being born, vaccines must still be delivered in this crisis.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Cannot build an adequate health system to respond to an emergency during an emergency’

How well the current infrastructure is ready to handle a small spike will vary from state to state.

India could face 1.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases by May says US based study of health systems

A sharp rise in the number of cases in a country of 1.4 billion people could put its health system under severe strain.

Computer algorithm used by thousands of US hospitals has an unintended bias against blacks

While the algorithm doesn't see race, it works by analyzing past patient health care costs, which differ widely between races.