‘Scary Time For Us:’ Small Spaces At Kidney Dialysis Centers Heighten Daily Concerns For Patients, Medical Workers

The New York Times:
Dialysis Patients Face Close-Up Risk From Coronavirus

Mat Risher leaves the security of his residence close to Seattle three days every week for dialysis at a clinic, a therapy he can’t stay with out however one which now most definitely will increase his threat of publicity to the coronavirus. About 20 sufferers sit in a small house with him, tethered for a number of hours to machines that filter toxins from their blood. All now have their temperatures taken earlier than they enter. They’ll put on a surgical masks and are advised that the rooms are cleaned and equipment disinfected usually. One of many first folks to die from the virus in the US had acquired dialysis at the exact same clinic, info that triggered a panic assault in Mr. Risher. (Abelson, 4/11)

Modern Healthcare:
COVID-19 Adds To Challenges Of Treating Deadly Addictions

For Singh and different dependancy specialists, efforts to handle one epidemic can put sufferers at elevated threat for the opposite. As cities and states all through the nation ban many public gatherings, issues over the pandemic have compelled dependancy medication suppliers to restrict entry to their amenities and quickly halt in-person group remedy periods and change them with counseling over the cellphone or by way of videoconferencing. (Johnson, 4/11)

The Associated Press:
Virus-Era Decisions: Way Too Many, And Each With High Stakes

Must you wash your arms? Are you going out to get the mail? Must you contact the mailbox? Must you contact the mail? Must you clear the mail? Must you take a stroll? Must you put on a masks? What about gloves? What about neighbors — keep six ft away? Ten? Will they method? What is going to you do? Will you be standoffish, or giggle it off? (Anthony, 4/13)

The Washington Post:
Amid Pandemic, Some Struggle To Abide By New Distancing Demands

The road outdoors the Panam Worldwide grocery store in Northwest Washington looped alongside 14th Road, almost three dozen consumers, half carrying masks to guard themselves from the coronavirus. But a lot of the patrons stood solely a foot or two aside, ignoring sidewalk markings and public well being warnings to remain six ft away. The worker monitoring the gang on the entrance on Saturday in Columbia Heights provided no reminders as the road grew over the course of some minutes. (Schwartzman, Williams and Hermann, 4/12)

The New York Times:
Hope, And New Life, In A Brooklyn Maternity Ward Fighting Covid-19

The frightened medical doctors stood collectively after their rounds, weighing the dangers. A 31-year-old pregnant girl was in peril, her lungs ravaged by the coronavirus. In the event that they delivered her child now, it would scale back the pressure on her physique and assist her get better. However it was greater than two months earlier than the due date, and the toddler would most likely have issue respiration, feeding and sustaining temperature and be in danger for long-term well being issues. The surgical procedure itself, a cesarean part, can be a stressor for the mom. (Fink, 4/12)

San Francisco Chronicle:
UCSF Study Investigates Coronavirus Impact On Pregnancy 

The Being pregnant Coronavirus Outcomes Registry started enrolling pregnant girls throughout the nation with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 on March 24. It’ll observe individuals for a 12 months to find out how the virus impacts maternal well being, fetal growth, preterm supply, new child well being and outcomes for underserved girls at larger threat of mortality throughout being pregnant. The examine additionally will deal with transmission: whether or not a mom can cross the an infection on to her youngster throughout being pregnant and beginning or by way of breast milk. (Feldberg, 4/10)

NPR:
Coronavirus Halts IVF For Thousands Of Women

Tens of 1000’s of ladies throughout the nation making an attempt to have a child by way of fertility remedies are in limbo due to COVID-19: They’ve needed to postpone their appointments indefinitely as a consequence of coronavirus suggestions just lately issued by the American Society for Reproductive Drugs. However now some fertility specialists and their sufferers are pushing again. Amongst them is Amy Schmidt Zook, whose toilet cupboard in her Fort Value, Texas, house is a miniature pharmacy of drugs and medical gear — syringes, needles, alcohol swabs, cotton pads, medicines for exciting her ovaries and follicles and for stopping untimely ovulation. (Pfeiffer, 4/12)

The Washington Post:
1 In 10 Hospitalized Middle-Aged Coronavirus Patients In U.S. Die, Medical Databases Show

The novel coronavirus is killing about 1 in 10 hospitalized middle-aged sufferers and Four in 10 who’re older than 85 in the US, and it’s significantly deadly to males even when making an allowance for widespread power illnesses that exacerbate threat, in accordance with beforehand unpublished knowledge from an organization that aggregates real-time affected person knowledge from 1,000 hospitals and 180,000 health-care suppliers. (Achenbach, 4/11)

CIDRAP:
In New York, Obesity Appears To Raise COVID-19 Risk

A brand new letter from researchers at New York College reveals that weight problems is a threat issue for COVID-19 hospitalization in sufferers below the age of 60. The letter was revealed yesterday in Scientific Infectious Ailments. In different analysis information, scientists from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) spotlight geographic COVID-19 variations, and Johns Hopkins consultants lay out the upcoming want for private protecting gear (PPE) for healthcare staff. (Soucheray, 4/10)

PBS NewsHour:
A Glimpse Of A Second-Grade Class During The Outbreak 

With the outbreak inflicting indefinite college closures throughout the nation, kids are having to determine new methods of studying and taking part in collectively whereas dwelling in isolation. (Murthy, 4/12)

PBS NewsHour:
How The Coronavirus Is Forcing A Family To Slow Down 

From mandates to make money working from home to large college closures, the coronavirus has reworked the lives of hundreds of thousands of People. (Booker, 4/11)

Los Angeles Times:
Coronavirus And The Pandemics That Shaped Human History

Hernan Cortés fled the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán in 1520 below blistering army assault, dropping the majority of his troops on his escape to the coast. However the Spanish conquistador unknowingly left behind a weapon much more devastating than weapons and swords: smallpox. When he returned to retake town, it was reeling amid an epidemic that will stage the Aztec inhabitants, destroy its energy constructions and result in an empire’s brutal defeat — initiating a centuries-long annihilation of native societies from Tierra del Fuego to the Bering Strait. (Mozingo, 4/12)

CIDRAP:
‘Great Influenza’ Author Talks COVID-19, 1918 Flu

In 2004 historian John M. Barry wrote the definitive guide on the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. Between 1918 and 1920, 675,000 People, a lot of them beforehand wholesome younger adults, died from a novel H1N1 pressure of flu because it swept throughout the nation in waves. Evaluating the present COVID-19 pandemic to the 1918 pandemic has been widespread in current weeks. In an interview with CIDRAP Information, Barry shares what’s the identical, what’s completely different, and why he is glad historians do not should predict the longer term. (Soucheray, 4/10)

KQED:
How A Hospital Chaplain Brings Comfort To Patients, Without Hugs Or Holding Hands 

Sister Donna Maria Moses, a Catholic nun and hospital chaplain who has seen the coronavirus pandemic firsthand, has tailored her ministry to offer solace to the dying over the cellphone, as an alternative of the standard in-person visits. She manages three workers chaplains and dozens of volunteers from many religions at Santa Clara Valley Medical Heart, one of many first hospitals to deal with coronavirus sufferers coming back from China and ill-fated cruise journeys. The chaplains can’t go to sufferers, and even the models the place COVID-19 sufferers are being handled. Moses is now not in a position to hug or maintain arms with somebody who’s sick or grieving relations, however she’s decided to offer different kinds of religious and emotional consolation. (Dillon, 4/11)

The Wall Street Journal:
The Struggle To Cope With Depression Amid Coronavirus

Throughout the two weeks after Minnesota issued its stay-at-home order in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Jane Egerdal cried daily. Ms. Egerdal, 62, has a historical past of melancholy. Virtually in a single day, the issues she had been doing to efficiently cope along with her situation—going to the health club, assembly buddies at espresso retailers, her job as a college nurse—disappeared. “I misplaced that community of individuals and sense of job and goal,” says Ms. Egerdal, who lives alone in Faribault, Minn. “The loneliness is insufferable.” (Petersen, 4/12)

Stat:
Coronavirus Pandemic Fuels Demand For Virtual Mental Health Care

With the coronavirus pandemic inflicting unprecedented ranges of stress and grief, corporations providing digital psychological well being care say they’re seeing a large surge in curiosity — and are scrambling to fulfill that demand by introducing new companies, accelerating launch timelines, and bringing extra workers on board. Covid-19 may show to be a breakout second for these companies, which had been making an attempt to handle the scarcity of in-person psychological well being care by offering digital teaching, monitoring, and academic content material lengthy earlier than the coronavirus outbreak. (Robbins, 4/13)

ABC News:
Coronavirus: How To Navigate Information On The Pandemic 

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus throughout the globe and ensuing influence on the lives of billions of individuals has highlighted the need for correct info referring to the devastating pandemic. However how can people even begin to course of the huge quantity of data being disseminated? (Bell, 4/13)

PBS NewsHour:
Family Holiday Traditions Go Virtual During The Pandemic 

This Holy Week, celebrated by Christians worldwide, coincides with the Jewish vacation Passover, when folks usually be a part of household for non secular gatherings. However these aren’t regular occasions. (Saltzman and Fong, 4/11)