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For-Profit Healthcare Doomed Our Coronavirus Response – The New York Times

The arrival of Covid-19 has provided a nuclear-level stress test to the American health care system and our grade isn’t pretty: At least 71,100 dead, 1.2 million infected and 30 million unemployed; nursing homes, prisons and meat packing plants that have become hotbeds of infection. The actual numbers are certainly far higher, since there still… Read More: For-Profit Healthcare Doomed Our Coronavirus Response – The New York… »

A coronavirus vaccine may arrive next year. ‘Herd immunity’ will take longer.

Anthony Fauci, the foremost infectious diseases expert in the U.S., has said a coronavirus vaccine could be available within 12 to 18 months. His timeline isn’t just ambitious; it’s unprecedented speed for a vaccine, which typically take many years of testing to make it to market. The challenges are many. Any vaccine available at such… Read More: A coronavirus vaccine may arrive next year. ‘Herd immunity’ will… »

Coronavirus UK: Death toll hits 21,731 but could be 55% higher

Government pledges to publish REAL daily death totals including non-hospital deaths as Britain suffers 586 more coronavirus deaths after ONS suggest true total may now be 55% higher at more than 33,000 NHS England today declared 552 more COVID-19 deaths in hospitals and more announced across the UK The figure is almost double the number… Read More: Coronavirus UK: Death toll hits 21,731 but could be 55%… »

Shining a light on super-spreaders of coronavirus misinformation

April 23, 2020 Posted By Categories Gary Schwitzer is the founder of HealthNewsReview.org and has been its publisher for 14 years. He tweets as @garyschwitzer or as @HealthNewsRevu. NewsGuard calls itself “The Internet Trust Tool.” And there may have never been a better time to help consumers learn whom to trust than the COVID-19 pandemic… Read More: Shining a light on super-spreaders of coronavirus misinformation »