Public Health

Routine childhood vaccinations in the U.S. dropped dramatically after the federal government declared a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic March 13, a new CDC report shows.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has discharged 10,210 COVID-19 patients as of May 11, surpassing the threshold of 10,000 patient discharges, the health system told Becker's Hospital Review.

The U.S. has confirmed 1,329,885 COVID-19 cases and 79,531 deaths as of 9:30 a.m. CDT May 11. Globally, there have been 4,132,365 reported cases and 283,387 deaths, while 1,422,745 have recovered.

COVID-19-related mortality held stable or decreased nationwide for the third consecutive week ending May 2, according to the CDC's weekly COVIDView report. 

Two young children and a teenager in New York have died from a rare inflammatory condition that may be linked to COVID-19.

Though it appears that the curve of the coronavirus pandemic is flattening in the U.S., cases have not decreased, indicating that the country is still in the midst of the first wave of the pandemic and the virus is still…

The high levels of stress, isolation and unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic could cause up to 75,000 deaths from suicides, drugs and alcohol, known collectively as "deaths of despair," according to a new report cited by CNN. 

The field hospital set up at Joint Base Cape Cod, which closed this week, didn't receive or treat a single COVID-19 patient, according to the Cape Cod Times. 

The U.S. needs to perform 900,000 COVID-19 tests per day to safely phase out social distancing measures, according to projections released May 7 by Harvard's Global Health Institute. 

About 900,000 daily COVID-19 tests would be needed to safely reopen the U.S., according to projections from Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard Global Health Institute. The U.S. has confirmed 1,256,972 COVID-19 cases and 75,670 deaths as of 9 a.m. CDT May 8.