The CDC has "pretty much confirmed" that a significant number of people infected with the new coronavirus remain asymptomatic — as many as 25 percent of those infected, the CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD, said in a March 30 interview with radio station WABE, an NPR affiliate in Atlanta.

Five COVID-19 patients in the U.S. are being treated with plasma from the blood of recovered coronavirus patients — the first in the country to receive this treatment, according to a USA Today report.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is reminding members to be extra cautious about emails they receive with COVID-19 information.

To support frontline providers, LinkedIn is allowing hospitals and nonprofits to post critical jobs for free over the next three months on its platform.

Research suggests the new coronavirus can be spread by talking, or even just breathing, experts from the National Academy of Sciences wrote in a letter to the White House, CNN reports.

Walgreens saw a large surge in sales during the first three weeks of March as people stocked up on prescription drugs and supplies in preparation for the coronavirus pandemic to hit the U.S., before seeing sales drop in the last week of the month, CNBC reported. 

Novartis said April 2 it has terminated its $1 billion deal for Aurobindo Pharma to acquire Sandoz's dermatology business. 

Healthcare organizations and providers in New York have gained immunity from civil and criminal liability during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Seattle-based Swedish Health Services partnered with Microsoft to develop an app for hospital workers to use to view and report real-time data on COVID-19 patient volumes, personal protective equipment and other critical information.

The lack of interoperability among EHRs can be potentially deadly for some senior patients with comorbidities during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent op-ed published in MIT Management.

After contracting the novel coronavirus, Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health emergency medicine physician Aditi Joshi, MD, turned to telemedicine to continue helping patients and prevent the emergency department from becoming overwhelmed, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Kirkland, Wash.-based Life Care Center is being fined more than $611,000 and could lose Medicare and Medicaid funding if it doesn't correct deficiencies tied to at least 37 COVID-19 deaths, The Washington Post reports.

Physicians at Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health created a low-cost, 3D-printed connector device to help increase ventilator capacity amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some hospitals and health systems across the U.S. have begun rolling out free or discounted telehealth services in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Mayo Clinic in Florida partnered with the Jacksonville Transportation Authority to deploy autonomous shuttles that transport medical supplies and COVID-19 tests collected at the hospital's drive-thru testing location.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is investigating the business practices of Alecto Healthcare after the hospital operator closed two hospitals in the state, according to The Intelligencer.

Christus Health has finalized its acquisition of Central Texas Medical Center, a 170-bed facility in San Marcos. 

A team of bioethicists at Pittsburgh-based UPMC developed a framework for care rationing that is gaining traction in the medical community, reports STAT.

More than 90 million Americans are at risk of severe illness if they contract COVID-19 due to their age or underlying health issues, according to an updated analysis from Kaiser Family Foundation.

The CDC on April 1 issued a guidance on how to decontaminate filtering facepiece respirators for reuse amid shortages, reports AHA News.