Information regarding the COVID-19 outbreak has been fast moving and fluid as medical experts race to study this novel coronavirus while trying to fight the battle against it to save lives. Everyone in the medical community are all learning about this virus in real time. Initially, symptoms were based on what was known about other …
As health officials from the White House Coronavirus Task Force rolled out plans to begin phasing in the re-opening of the economy at the discretion of each state’s governor, each state must now assess its own level of risk and advise its citizens on how to proceed with their daily lives. With concerns for the …
The American Lung Association explains that, “The pulse oximeter, or Pulse Ox, is an electronic device that measures the saturation of oxygen carried in your red blood cells.” In a recent article published in the New York Times, emergency room physician, Dr. Richard Levitan, described his experience working with COVID-19 patients, realizing that most of …
“Most people associate grief with death and death alone. And while death is certainly loss, there are many other life events that can produce feelings of grief related to COVID-19,” reports mental health professionals at The Grief Recovery Method. Globally, thousands have lost their lives to this virus since the outbreak began and everyone’s life …
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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines contact tracing as, “the practice of identifying and monitoring individuals who may have had contact with an infectious person as a means of controlling the spread of a communicable disease. Health authorities in all these places are working hard to find the original source, or ‘patient zero,’ using what’s called contact …
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