Why Some People Are Waiting Weeks for Their COVID-19 Test Results

....As the United States struggles to control the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the country are using Twitter to announce the arrival of their virus test results. The point of these tweets is not just to broadcast the result itself, but to point out the absurdity of receiving a result so stale that it’s almost completely useless from a public health standpoint.

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Flu season prep, complicated by COVID-19, starts early this year

Chinese cities find virus in Brazilian chicken wings, Ecuadorian shrimp packaging

CDC issues a dire warning for the fall if coronavirus measures are not followed; Anti-vaxers ramp up

The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000

Accuracy of U.S. coronavirus data thrown into question as decline in testing skews drop in new cases

The Many Symptoms of Covid-19

For a Texas nurse, the first sign that something was wrong happened while brushing her teeth — she couldn’t taste her toothpaste. For a Georgia attorney, it was hitting a wall of fatigue on a normally easy run. When a Wisconsin professor fell ill in June, he thought a bad meal had upset his stomach.

But eventually, all of these people discovered that their manifold symptoms were all signs of Covid-19. Some of the common symptoms — a dry cough, a headache — can start so mildly they are at first mistaken for allergies or a cold. In other cases, the symptoms are so unusual — strange leg pain, a rash or dizziness — that patients and even their doctors don’t think Covid-19 could be the culprit.

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Opinion: How Lessons from Global Health Can Improve Health And The Response To COVID-19 In The US

OVERVIEW: At least 161,000 people have died from coronavirus in the U.S.

Companies test antibody drugs to treat, prevent COVID-19

With a coronavirus vaccine still months off, companies are rushing to test what may be the next best thing: drugs that deliver antibodies to fight the virus right away, without having to train the immune system to make them.

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How to recognize Covid-19 symptoms in children, based on pediatricians' advice

Federal spending on COVID-19 vaccine candidates tops $9 billion, spread among 7 companies

Over 900 Health Workers Have Died of COVID-19. And the Toll Is Rising.

STUDY: measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets during speech

EDITORIAL: Kansas tested whether mask mandates decrease COVID-19 cases. The results were clear

Do masks work? Better yet, do we really need to ask?

Apparently so.

OK. But as the national debate on whether masks inhibit the spread of COVID-19 goes on far beyond its logical conclusion, what should be a new closing argument has just been made. In Kansas, of all places.

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