by Richard A. Hendricks | May 30, 2020 | Health News
Diabetes is one of the underlying health conditions that health experts believe put people at greater risk for developing more severe symptoms of Covid-19 and the study, published in the journal Diabetologia Thursday, seems to confirm this. The researchers looked at more than 1,300 coronavirus patients in 53 hospitals in France between March 10 and […]
by Richard A. Hendricks | May 30, 2020 | Health News
This adds to a growing body of evidence that the virus was much more prevalent early on in the outbreak than health officials thought at the time. “Every public health person and infectious disease person in the country is going to line up and say yes, for sure,...
by Richard A. Hendricks | May 29, 2020 | Health News
Even if the patients’ cancer wasn’t spreading, coronavirus infection nearly doubled the risk of dying, the researchers found. That early data, published in the medical journal The Lancet on Thursday, also showed that patients treated with the controversial...
by Richard A. Hendricks | May 28, 2020 | Health News
“I think I have pleuritis,” a 10-year-old told me last month. “It hurts when I breathe in deep.” “Really? What else have you read?” I asked. “Well, if it’s not pleuritis, it could be anxiety. If it’s not pleuritis...
by Richard A. Hendricks | May 28, 2020 | Health News
The answer, though fanciful, illustrates just how hard it can be to understand exponential growth and doubling, two pieces of math that explain the spread of viruses like Covid-19. Because by the time you made the 42nd fold, your stack of paper would reach the moon....
