About 33 percent of COVID-19 patients admitted to two New York City hospitals experienced respiratory failure leading to invasive mechanical ventilation, a new study shows.
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Though health organizations were warning those with asthma that they may be at a higher risk for developing severe COVID-19, early data from New York shows that asthmatics only make up about 5 percent of coronavirus-related deaths in the state,…
About one-fifth of patients who died of COVID-19 in China needed invasive mechanical ventilation, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
About two-thirds of COVID-19 patients requiring mechanical ventilation die, a 3,883-person study shows.
Three emergency physicians from Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Hospital outlined their experience on the front lines of the pandemic in an April 13 entry for The New England Journal of Medicine's COVID-19 Notes series.
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New York City-based Northwell Health's research arm has joined a national network formed by the Mayo Clinic to collect blood plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and research an antibody therapy.
About 1 in 10 middle-aged patients hospitalized with COVID-19 do not survive, according to new data from Allscripts cited by The Washington Post.
The recent death of an elderly patient at an emergency room in New York City highlights hospitals' struggle to maintain order as both patient volumes and fears about the pandemic rise, reports The New York Times.
Americans who are male, black or have underlying health conditions are more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19, according to new CDC data cited by The New York Times.
Azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine are the top two prescription medications physicians around the world have used to treat COVID-19 patients, according to a new global survey.