For Californians venturing outside, donning a mask will be as common as putting on a cap or sunglasses when the state begins gradually easing stay-at-home orders on Friday. But rules about face coverings vary from county ...
May 8, 2020
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Despite a century's progress in science, 2020 is looking a lot like 1918.
May 5, 2020
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For all the anticipation around new COVID-19 tests, therapeutics and vaccines, public health experts know that the end of the pandemic will depend also on a low-tech, tried-and-true tactic—contact tracing.
May 1, 2020
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Scientists at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), have identified a new risk factor for multiple neurodegenerative ...
Apr 27, 2020
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Back in January, the "novel coronavirus" that had sprung up in the Chinese city of Wuhan was at most a distant worry for many people in the United States.
Apr 27, 2020
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Even at the beginning of April, large percentages of residents at U.S. homeless shelters were testing positive for the new coronavirus, studies show.
Apr 23, 2020
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A group of researchers with experience in treating high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) have written to correct the misconception in medical social media forums and elsewhere that the lung injury seen in COVID-19 is not like ...
Apr 20, 2020
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On the morning of March 15, as Italy became the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, a half dozen high-ranking California health officials held an emergency conference call to discuss efforts to contain the spread ...
Apr 19, 2020
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The course of human history has been shaped by infectious diseases, and the current crisis certainly won't be the last time.
Apr 17, 2020
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(HealthDay)—In a comprehensive rapid response plan, published online April 9 in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, surgeons from the University of California San Francisco present a strategy to triage surgeries ...
Apr 16, 2020
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