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Anchor lead: Do certain blood pressure medicines increase risk for COVID-19? Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood pressure medicines known by the acronyms ACE inhibitors and ARBs were thought to increase risk for those infected with SARS-CoV2. Enid Neptune, a lung and …
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Anchor lead: What should the standard of testing for COVID-19 be among healthcare workers? Elizabeth Tracey reports Ten percent? Twenty percent? What is the rate of infection with COVID-19 among healthcare workers on the front lines? Such knowledge is of …
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Anchor lead: Science is behind the need to keep your distance from other people, Elizabeth Tracey reports It’s not easy keeping your distance from others, especially as infectious disease experts are saying that’s a minimum of six feet of distance. …
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Anchor lead: While more testing is being developed for COVID-19 it still falls far short of the goal, Elizabeth Tracey reports. Weeks ago, Johns Hopkins researcher Heba Mostafa and colleagues developed a rapid test for COVID-19, that is being used …
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Anchor lead: How can we tell if an existing drug might be used to treat COVID-19? Elizabeth Tracey reports Hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug, and azithromycin, an antibiotic, are two existing drugs now in clinical trials to treat COVID-19. William Nelson, …
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Anchor lead: There are strategies to alleviate the shortage of ventilators for people with COVID-19, Elizabeth Tracey reports Ventilators, machines that help people with severe COVID-19 breath, are in short supply. Enid Neptune, a lung expert and critical care medicine …
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Anchor lead: Observations that the heart may be damaged by COVID-19 infection have important clinical implications, Elizabeth Tracey reports Twenty percent of patients with COVID-19 infection in Wuhan had evidence of acute heart damage, a study in JAMA Cardiology shows. …
