Enlarge / A pharmacist at the Community Pharmacy of Saco demonstrates how Abbott’s BinaxNow COVID-19 Ag Card Home Test works by using a nasal swab and a solution onto a test strip. (credit: Getty | Portland Press Herald) To quickly confirm an asymptomatic case of COVID-19, a second rapid test within an hour of a […]
Enlarge / World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (L) and WHO Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove attend a daily press briefing on COVID-19 at the WHO headquarters on March 2, 2020, in Geneva. (credit: Getty | Fabrice Coffrini) After weeks of decline, the global tally of COVID-19 cases is now ticking back up. […]
Enlarge / A person takes a rapid COVID-19 test. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg ) Federal and state investigations into a large national chain of COVID-19 testing sites have turned up tests that were never labeled with patients’ names, tests piled into trash bags stored for long periods at room temperature, tests that were in no […]
Enlarge / Travelers wait in line to check-in at LaGuardia Airport in New York, on December 24, 2021. -On Christmas Eve, airlines, struggling with the Omicron variant of Covid-19, have canceled over 2, 000 flights globally, 454 of which are domestic, into or out of the US. (credit: Getty | YUKI IWAMURA ) As the […]
Tom Brady has revealed that he tested positive for COVID-19 and spent some time quarantining because of the disease late this past February, after his Tampa Bay Buccaneers had won the Super Bowl. In an interview with the Tampa Bay Times published on Saturday, the legendary quarterback revealed that not only did he test positive for COVID-19 after […]
Enlarge / Residents line up for nucleic acid testing of COVID-19 on August 3, 2021, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. (credit: Getty ) After going a full year without any locally spread cases of COVID-19, the city where the coronavirus pandemic first began has now detected its first instances involving the delta variant. Officials in […]
Expand / This photograph taken on November 22, 2020 reveals wellness workers in protective suits awaiting run COVID-19 coronavirus evaluations on employees at Pudong Airport in Shanghai. (charge: Getty | STR) Nearly 18,000 employees were sealed to Shanghai’s primary airport Sunday and analyzed for COVID-19 at 1 night after police discovered seven instances related to […]
Expand / / Doctor in defense gloves analyzing & Fixing evaluation kit to COVID-19 in lab. Even the US’s COVID testing collapse has unfurled in phases. To begin with there were not near enough evaluations, thanks to cascading coverage failures and supply chain difficulties. When the distribution trouble gradually came under management, it had been […]
Expand / / The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters stands at Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Since the novel coronavirus has burst in the usa, that the CDC is under increasing heating to shield a shaky rollout of testing kits that are vital. Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg through Getty Images […]
Expand / US President Donald Trump talks during a press conference where he regularly contradicted his own wellness specialists. (charge: Bloomberg/Getty Pictures ) There was great news then terrible news for public health experience. In the aftermath of increasingly unhinged behaviour in the Trump-appointed communications manager in the US Department of Health and Human Services,” […]