FRIDAY, May 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) — As millions of Americans try to navigate a safe re-entry into public life, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released recommendations to guide schools, businesses and restaurants through reopening during the coronavirus pandemic. Six “checklists” — which also offerContinue Reading

TUESDAY, May 12, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Most Americans voluntarily stayed at home during the early days of the COVID-19 tsunami, before states began issuing official “shelter-in-place” orders, new research indicates. Why? Because statewide emergency declarations coupled with news — of first infections, first fatalities and school closures — wereContinue Reading

TUESDAY, May 12, 2020 (HealthDay News) — As states across America move through the early phases of reopening their economies, the nation’s top infectious disease expert plans to issue an ominous warning during a Senate hearing on Tuesday: Open too quickly, and “needless suffering and death” will follow. Dr. AnthonyContinue Reading

FRIDAY, May 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 has directly claimed tens of thousands of U.S. lives, but conditions stemming from the novel coronavirus — rampant unemployment, isolation and an uncertain future — could lead to 75,000 deaths from drug or alcohol abuse and suicide, new research suggests. Deaths fromContinue Reading