Public Health

Emergency medical technicians working for American Medical Response ambulance company are expressing their frustration on Facebook after two EMTs transported a potential coronavirus patient in Seattle without being told of the risk, according to NBC affiliate KING-TV.

More than 25 percent of opioid overdoses involve youth as overdoses become increasingly severe, according to an analysis presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 49th Critical Care Congress. 

Officials in South Korea are tracking and publishing the travel details of the 29 people in the country who have contracted the new strain of coronavirus, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The U.S. has reported 14 new coronavirus cases, bringing the nation's total to 29 cases. As of 10 a.m., Feb. 17, the coronavirus has sickened 71,902 globally and has resulted in 1,775 deaths.

An Ohio county is considering opening a second morgue to accommodate the high number of drug overdose deaths at the beginning of February, according to an ABC News report.

A fatal new drug combination of heroin cut with synthetic fentanyl has emerged that may be too dangerous to even touch, a police department in Louisiana is warning the public, according to CBS News.

A parking attendant at Brigham and Women's Hospital was shot outside the Boston-based facility Friday, the health system tweeted.

A steering committee for the United States and Canada's Joint Action Plan on Opioids met Jan. 31, creating working groups for key challenges faced by both countries, according to the White House.

Over the next four decades, health insurance premiums are set to grow by roughly 90 percent under current law, even after accounting for inflation and economic growth, according to an analysis from the Penn Wharton Budget Model.

States that expanded Medicaid had fewer opioid overdose deaths, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.