Acute Care
While new technologies are being deployed, health systems can use existing resources to help combat the coronavirus's spread.
Creative thinking will be needed to carve out the necessary critical care capacity to address the surge in COVID-19 patients.
Forgoing these medications would increase health risks for millions of patients with hypertension and congestive heart failure.
The message is clear: Nurses and physicians should treat asymptomatic patients as carefully as symptomatic patients.
Microscopic changes in the transmission rate trigger macroscopic jumps in the expected epidemic size, research found.
The COVID-19 virus may be at least as transmissible as SARS; WHO officials cautioned it's too early to tell if the spread will keep slowing.
WHO stopped short of calling the COVID-19 coronavirus a pandemic, saying much of its spread is still localized to China.
Blueprint includes cuts for care in hospital outpatient departments, teaching hospitals and post-acute care providers, AHA says.
The U.S. has its first case of infection by human-to-human contact, CDC has confirmed.
Five patients have been identified in this country, with all having traveled from Wuhan, China, where the disease originated.