The U.S. has reported 1,487,447 COVID-19 cases and 89,567 related deaths as of 9:30 a.m. CDT May 18. Globally, there have been 4,744,216 reported cases and 315,740 deaths, while 1,747,403 have recovered.
Public Health
Public and commercial laboratories are seeing a slight uptick in positive COVID-19 tests from children under 18, according to the CDC's weekly COVIDView report.
In some cases, children with COVID-19 might initially only experience gastrointestinal symptoms, according research published in Frontiers in Pediatrics.
Neurologists in major cities across the U.S. are reporting a rare uptick in strokes among young people that may be related to COVID-19, reported The New York Times.
Two Washington state residents who were sick in December tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, indicating that the virus may have been spreading in the state well before its first confirmed COVID-19 case in January, according to The Seattle Times.
Advertisement
The USNS Mercy hospital ship departed from Los Angeles after seven weeks treating non-COVID-19 patients, according to CBS Los Angeles.
The U.S. has reported 1,419,863 COVID-19 cases and 85,964 related deaths as of 9:30 a.m. CDT May 15. Globally, there have been 4,444,670 reported cases and 303,297 deaths, while 1,606,082 have recovered.
Up to 1.2 million children could die from preventable causes in the next six months as health agencies scale back routine services to respond to the pandemic, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health.
The Spanish flu upended the world in the early 20th century, yet the pandemic was largely absent from public discourse, literature, art or research in the coming decades, according to The New York Times.
Physicians and the general public should be cautious about the use of antibody testing for identifying previous COVID-19 infections, and they should especially be cautious of using the tests to determine if a person is immune to the new coronavirus,…