June 17, 2020 By Staff Report Coronavirus cases are spiking, but hospitalizations and deaths are trending downward. Hillsborough County health officials say people 34 and younger represent the biggest increase lately. In the last seven days, there have been 14,109 new confirmed cases of COVID-19…
Read More COVID-19 Florida Sets New Record For Most New Cases In a Day
June 15, 2020 By: Sarah McCormick Hydroxychloroquine, along with its counterpart chloroquine, has been revoked for use as an emergency treatment measure in the fight against COVID-19. The drug touted by President Donald Trump, which has shown promising results across the country as an effective…
Read More FDA Pulls Hydroxychloroquine Citing Cardiac Concerns
June 10, 2020 By: Staff Report A day after the World Health Organization (WHO), suggested that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 is “very rare,” they clarified their statement. In a nutshell, they have no idea. The clarification comes after the WHO’s original comments incited strong pushback…
Read More WHO Changes Statement on Asymptomatic Spread of COVID-19, They Have No Idea
June 9, 2020 By: Staff Report and floridiadisater.org The Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) announced that three COVID-19 testing sites across the state have been created through a partnership between FDEM, Home Depot, and Quest Diagnostics. One site in Boca Raton has been open…
Read More State of Florida & Home Depot Partner to Provide Three COVID-19 Testing Sites
June 09, 2020 By: Staff Report Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the virus, World Health Organization officials said Monday. This cast doubt on concerns by some researchers that the disease could be difficult to contain due to asymptomatic infections. Some people,…
Read More WHO Says, Spread of COVID-19 in Most Asymptomatic Patients is ‘very rare,’
May 17, 2020 By: Staff Report AdventHealth, who relies on third-party labs to provide test results, has terminated a contract with a lab after major delays. “Unfortunately, one of these labs processing a significant number of our public tests has been unable to fulfill its…
Read More AdventHealth Says More than 25,000 Coronavirus Tests Unreliable in Central Florida
May 12, 2020 By: Staff Brief The Florida Department of Health is issuing daily updates on the numbers of confirmed cases of the COVID-19 in Florida. We have compiled the numbers by county, confirmed cases, and percentage of the population of that county that is confirmed. We…
Read More COVID-19 Confirmed Cases, By the Numbers and County
May 10, 2020 By: Staff In public health, contact tracing is the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person (“contacts”) and subsequent collection of further information about these contacts. By tracing the contacts of infected individuals, testing them for infection,…
Read More Contact Tracing, We Want Your Opinion-VOTING POLL
May 8, 2020By Sarah McCormick NEW YORK – When Nicole Sirotek made the difficult decision to leave the cozy confines of her family home in Elko, Nevada to go on a volunteer medical mission to New York City, she probably never imagined the events that…
Read More ICU Nurse in NY, Claims Patients Being Murdered, Not Dying of COVID-19
May 5, 2020 By Sarah McCormick TANZANIA – Tanzanian President John Magfuli has raised concerns yet again regarding the aid being received into the country, this time concerning COVID-19 test kits which produced positive results from a goat, a sheep, a jackfruit, and a Pawpaw…
Read More A Goat, Two Fruits, and a Sheep Have Tested Positive for COVID-19 in Tanzania