Into the sixth month of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., it’s clear that COVID-19 has wreaked a greater mortality and morbidity impact on people of color than on white adults. A new Gallup-West Health poll found that the coronavirus also concerns more non-white Americans than whites when it comes to the cost of health… Read More »
President Donald Trump on Thursday continued his push for schools to reopen as fall approaches regardless of the state of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, adding that keeping schools closed “is causing death also.” Trump called on Democrats to work with Republicans to pass the latest coronavirus relief bill, which currently includes $ 105 billion to help… Read More »
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD With cases of COVID-19 either disappeared or rapidly diminishing from places like Wuhan, Italy, New York, and Sweden, many voices are speculating that herd immunity may have been reached in those areas and that it may be at hand in the remaining parts of the world that are still struggling with the… Read More »
Dive Brief: Community Health Systems on Tuesday posted a profit of $ 70 million in the second quarter as funding from federal COVID-19 relief legislation buoyed the company from losses related to dramatically lower patient volumes. The Franklin, Tennessee-based hospital chain reported $ 2.52 billion in net operating revenue, an 18.4% decrease compared to the same… Read More »