Month: August 2020

Two patients were reinfected with the coronavirus in Europe, according to local broadcasters who confirmed the incidents with virologists. The patients, one from Belgium and the other from the Netherlands, were confirmed to have been reinfected with COVID-19, Reuters reported. Marian Koopmans, a Dutch virologist, confirmed to broadcaster NOS that the patient from the Netherlands was elderly with a compromised immune system, but did not provide more details about the infection. Koopmans told NOS that in order for reinfection, a virus must change its genetic code. She added during the interview with the broadcaster that, given the veracity of the virus, recurrence of infection was to be expected.  “That someone would pop up with a reinfection, it doesn’t make me nervous,” she s...

Adrian Rogers, pictured with wife Amanda Rogers, had his potentially life-saving surgery cancelled. (SWNS)Adrian Rogers, 46, has become the first known cancer patient to reveal his terminal diagnosis after his potentially life-saving surgery was cancelled in the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Rogers, from Retford in Nottinghamshire, was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in July 2018, but after 18 months of chemotherapy, he was told his bowel was in an operable state in February this year. When COVID-19 hit, doctors decided it was too risky to go ahead with his surgery, which was scheduled for April. Now, the scaffolding supervisor and his wife, Amanda, 48, have been delivered the devastating news that his cancer is terminal. He has been told the number of tumours on his bowels ...

Two European patients are confirmed to have been reinfected with the coronavirus, according to regional public broadcasters, raising concerns about people’s immunity to the virus as the world struggles to tame the pandemic. The news follows a report by researchers in Hong Kong released on Monday about a man there who had been reinfected four-and-a-half months after recovering from his first infection, suggesting that some patients who recover from COVID-19 may have only short-lived immunity to reinfection. Broadcasters said on Tuesday a patient in the Netherlands and another in Belgium had also been reinfected with the virus that has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide and crippled the global economy. Dutch broadcaster NOS cited virologist Marion Koopmans as saying th...

(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) This is a regularly updated story with the latest information, news and updates about the coronavirus and its impact in Arizona and beyond for Tuesday, Aug. 25. PHOENIX – Arizona health authorities reported 859 new coronavirus cases and 21 more deaths on Tuesday morning. That put the state’s documented totals at 199,273 COVID-19 infections and 4,792 fatalities, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. Multiple key metrics about the severity of Arizon...

Come fall, the rise of influenza and other seasonal respiratory infections could exacerbate already staggering delays in coronavirus testing, making it easier for the virus to spread unnoticed, experts said. In typical years, doctors often don’t test for flu, simply assuming that patients with coughs, fevers and fatigue during the winter months are probably carrying the highly infectious virus. But this year, with the coronavirus bringing similar symptoms, doctors will need to test for both viruses to diagnose their patients — further straining supply shortages in an already overwhelmed testing system. A handful of manufacturers have begun making tests that can screen for several pathogens at once. But these combo tests are expensive and will likely make up only a fraction of the market....