Nurses and physicians nationwide are turning to creative workarounds to protect themselves from COVID-19 amid dwindling supplies of medical masks and respirators, reports NPR.
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The arrival of summer and a rainy season may help reduce the transmission of the COVID-19, according to results of a recent study.
Here are 10 clinical findings on the new coronavirus, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review in the last month.
The new coronavirus can remain infectious in the air for up to three hours and last on some surfaces for more than a day, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Nurses, nursing assistants and personal care aides are among the largest groups of healthcare workers most at risk of contracting COVID-19, according to an interactive chart from The New York Times.
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Though children are susceptible to COVID-19, the disease is less severe in children than in adults, according to a new study.
In the period before China enacted travel restrictions, about 86 percent of all new coronavirus infections were undocumented, according to a new study published in Science.
Antibiotic don't necessarily improve outcomes for children discharged from the emergency department who are suspected of having pneumonia, according to a study published in Pediatrics.
The novel coronavirus does not appear to pass on from mother to child at birth, according to a case study conducted in China.
Clinicians could consider using "convalescent serum" — the blood serum of recovered novel coronavirus patients — to prevent and treat COVID-19, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.