Tag: hospitalizations

California has recorded a half-million coronavirus cases in the last two weeks and in a month could be facing a once-unthinkable caseload of nearly 100,000 hospitalizations, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s top health official said Monday. Gov. Gavin Newsom, himself quarantined for the second time in two months, acknowledged that a state projection model

US COVID-19 hospitalizations surpass the April peak by 17% as Texas becomes a top hotspot with 20,000 deaths – second only to New York – and more than 130,000 cases are recorded nationwide for the sixth day in a row – but the fatality rate is less than 1% As of Sunday, 69,455 coronavirus patients

COVID-19 (coronavirus) patients who were administered a novel antibody had fewer symptoms and were less likely to require hospitalization or emergency medical care than those who did not receive the antibody, according to a new study published in the The New England Journal of Medicine. The multisite, Phase II clinical trial tested three different doses

Construction workers have a much higher risk of becoming hospitalized with the novel coronavirus than non-construction workers, according to a new study from researchers with The University of Texas at Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium. Analyzing data from mid-March to mid-August on hospitalizations in Austin, Texas, the researchers found that construction workers there were five times

Emergency room doctor says COVID-19 and 1918 flu pandemic belong in the same conversation New medical study finds New York City coronavirus deaths in spring are comparable to 1918 flu pandemic; insight from Dr. Jeremy Faust, emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As health officials urge the public to get the flu shot in