What we know about the UK coronavirus variant
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Pulse Oximeter Devices Have Higher Error Rate in Black Patients--New study
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Pulse oximeters are one of the most commonly used tools in medicine. The small devices, which resemble a clothespin, measure blood oxygen when clipped onto a fingertip, and they can quickly indicate whether a patient needs urgent medical care.
Health providers use them when they take vital signs and when they evaluate patients for treatment. Ever since the pandemic started, doctors have encouraged patients with Covid to use them at home.
But in Black patients, the devices can provide misleading results in more than one in 10 people, according to a new study.
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British Airways and Delta agree to test all passengers before entering New York
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In Japan, more people died from suicide last month than from Covid in all of 2020. And women have been impacted most
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... Experts have warned that the pandemic could lead to a mental health crisis. Mass unemployment, social isolation, and anxiety are taking their toll on people globally.
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Will the COVID-19 crisis trigger a One Health coming-of-age?
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30179-0/fulltext
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the globe, leaving governments and public health services in shock and disarray, calls have been made for the need to adopt One Health approaches to address the failure to predict and halt the emergence of COVID-19.
The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is widely suggested to have originated in Asia from a bat reservoir, possibly also involving other animal bridge species. As such, the focus of One Health on the human–animal–environment interface appears particularly compelling.
We concur, however, we warn that conceptual and institutional ambiguities that preclude the practical implementation and evaluation of One Health remain to be resolved.
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Model projects nearly 300,000 Americans could die from Covid-19 by December
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