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In January, as a frightening new virus filled hospital wards in Wuhan, China, Stephanie Giordano, a 25-year-old researcher at the drugmaker Regeneron, in a suburb of New York City, began working on a treatment for the disease. By March, the deadly coronavirus had hit home. Fearing she would get infected on the train that took her to the lab every day, she moved from her apartment in East Harlem to an Airbnb five minutes from the company’s headquarters in Tarrytown, in Westchester County. Then her mother, a nurse’s assistant who cared for newborn babies at a Long Island hospital, was reassigned to a Covid-19 ward where she tended to older people struggling to breathe. No drug could help these patients — or her, if she were to get sick, too. “I had somebody on the line that I really cared ...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. About an hour ago The surge in covid-19 cases in Southwestern Pennsylvania is infecting a younger, less vulnerable demographic, and thus far the most recent cases appear to be less severe, doctors at UPMC said Thursday. The latest cases are mainly linked to younger people who contracted covid-19 after traveling out-of-state or while socializing, said Dr. Graham Snyder, UPMC’s medical director of infection prevention and hospital epidemiology. “This is the pattern I’m seeing everywhere I look,” Snyder said. The intensity of the disease in the newest cases also isn’t matching the severity that was seen in the early stages of the pandemic, Snyder said. ...

Montana reported three new COVID-19 deaths on Thursday and a new single-day record for new cases, according to the Montana Response COVID-19 tracking map. The new deaths are related to a nursing care facility in Billings. Yellowstone County health officials reported three new deaths, although one of the cases will not be reflected on the Thursday state update. The number of deaths statewide now stands at 26. Here's the full press release from RiverStone Health: With deep sorrow, RiverStone Health, Yellowstone County’s public health department, reports three more COVID-19 related deaths. The deaths stem from the COVID-19 outbreak at Canyon Creek Memory Care. On Monday, July 6, a woman in her 70s passed away. On Wednesday, July 8, a woman in her 80s also died. On Thursday, July 9, a man in...

Executive Summary Stress comes to us all in tiny little assaults throughout our day — what we call “micro-stresses” — for example, the frustration of a colleague missing the mark on a joint project, or the emotional toll of a trusted work colleague moving on. These micro-stresses come at us all day long, through relationships and interactions that are too numerous and high velocity to easily shake off.  The problem is that most of us have come to accept micro-stresses as just a normal part of a day. We hardly acknowledge them, but cumulatively they are wearing us down. And what’s worse is that the sources of these micro-stresses are often the people — in and out of work — with whom we are closest. We don’t have to accept micro-stresses as destiny. This article discusses t...

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If there’s one thing we want to know about COVID-19, it’s probably this: What’s my risk of getting it? Researchers have identified certain things that make some people more vulnerable than others. Men are at greater risk than women. Older people are at greater risk than younger people. Those with chronic health problems like Type 2 diabetes, obesity and serious heart conditions are faring worse than those without them. Black and Latino Americans are at greater risk than Asian Americans and whites. Now there’s evidence that blood type could be a risk factor too. A handful of studies have suggested that people with some blood types are more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19, while those with other blood types are less likely to require that level of care. The most recent evidence was ...

A man who became manic after being infected with coronavirus got so delirious he confessed to his wife that he used to have sex with men, doctors have revealed.  The unidentified 41-year-old, who was treated at St Thomas' Hospital in London, also became 'highly aroused' and uninhibited, questioning and inappropriately touching nurses tasked with treating him. He also became obsessed with 'grandiose ideas' and tried to smear water on fellow patients as if he were baptising them, medics said in a bizarre case report. The man was sick with a cough and fever for 10 days before he ended up in hospital and tested positive for Covid-19, which doctors believe triggered unusual symptoms. He eventually had to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act because he became so out of control. Describing t...

Image copyright City of London Police Image caption Frank Ludlow had a genuine belief his cure could "take out all viral infections", the court heard A man has pleaded guilty to selling fake coronavirus cure kits to people in France and the United States. Frank Ludlow, 59, was caught by City of London Police trying to send dozens of parcels of fake remedies in a post office near his West Sussex home. Judge William Mousley said father-of-two Ludlow contacted national governments and "took advantage of an international crisis". Ludlow was given a suspended 10-month sentence at Portsmouth Crown Court. American cu...

Knowing that asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19 can spread the virus, wearing masks is more important than ever. James Martin/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. The World Health Organization incited backlash from public health officials during a news conference on June 8 when Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead for the COVID-19 resp...

As the emergency management coordinator of the Texas county, David Prasifka was always on the lookout for how he could help his community. So when the coronavirus pandemic started to creep in, he hit the ground running, searching near and far to procure personal protective equipment for the county's first responders, hospital staff and essential workers on the front lines of the fight against the virus. Then last week, Prasifka fell ill, with doctors diagnosing him with acute leukemia, according to Atascosa Judge Robert Hurley, who worked closely with Prasifka on the county's Covid-19 efforts. Prasifka passed away on Saturday from the effects of leukemia and Covid-19, according to his obituary. He was 58. "David had been leading Atascosa County through the COVID-19 pandemic. His ...