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Looking to Reopen, Colleges Become Labs for Coronavirus Tests and Tracking Apps

Sun, 2020-08-30 14:03 — mike kraft

Thousands of students returning to the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York this month are being asked to wear masks in public, register their health status online each day and electronically log classroom visits for contact tracing if a coronavirus outbreak occurs. But the most novel effort at the school to measure and limit virus spread will require little effort and come quite naturally.

Students need only use the bathroom.

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INNOVATIONS: Japanese firms develop ways to cool facewmasks.p

Thu, 2020-08-27 11:44 — mike kraft

Hot but want to stop the virus? Japan keeps mask-wearing cool in summer (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From masks with ice packs to cooling sprays, products designed to make wearing a coronavirus-protective face covering more bearable in sweltering summer heat have become a hit in Japan. Beh Lih Yi U.S.

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FDA authorizes Abbott’s fast $5 COVID-19 test

Thu, 2020-08-27 09:07 — mike kraft

FDA authorizes Abbott’s fast $5 COVID-19 test It comes with an app that displays if you test negative Nicole Wetsman The Verge

A COVID-19 test that takes 15 minutes and can be run without lab equipment was just granted emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration. It will cost $5, and runs on a simple card that uses the same technology as a pregnancy test.

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Japanese researchers say ozone effective in neutralising coronavirus

Thu, 2020-08-27 09:01 — mike kraft

Japan researchers say ozone effective in neutralising coronavirus Japanese researchers said on Wednesday that low concentrations of ozone can neutralise coronavirus particles, potentially providing a way for hospitals to disinfect examination rooms and waiting areas. Rocky Swift U.S.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese researchers said on Wednesday that low concentrations of ozone can neutralise coronavirus particles, potentially providing a way for hospitals to disinfect examination rooms and waiting areas.

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NURSING HOME: Experimental drug used to stop COVID-19 spread

Sun, 2020-08-23 12:35 — mike kraft

The coronavirus crept into Heartland Health Care Center, a nursing home in Moline, Ill., on the last day of July, when a member of the nursing staff tested positive.

It was an ominous sign: The virus can spread through a nursing home in a flash. Older people — who are often sick and frail and need regular hands-on attention — are uniquely susceptible. Staff members who care for residents are at high risk of infection and of unintentionally spreading the virus.

Although nursing home residents make up just 1.2 percent of the United States population, they account for about 40 percent of Covid-19 deaths.

But this time, the nursing home was not defenseless. Heartland was the first facility to participate in a large clinical trial of a drug that might protect residents from the infection in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

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For Quick Coronavirus Testing, Israel Turns to a Clever Algorithm

Fri, 2020-08-21 17:46 — mike kraft

BEERSHEBA, Israel — A team of three Israeli scientists has pioneered a coronavirus testing procedure that they say is faster and more efficient than any now in use, testing samples in pools of as many as 48 people at once.

The Israeli government plans to roll out the new method in 12 labs across the country by October, anticipating that another wave of coronavirus infections could coincide with influenza season with potentially calamitous results. ...

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Pandemic pushes expansion of ‘hospital-at-home’ treatment

Fri, 2020-08-21 09:27 — mike kraft

Pandemic pushes expansion of 'hospital-at-home' treatment As hospitals care for people with COVID-19 and try to keep others from catching the virus, more patients are opting to be treated where they feel safest: at home. Across the U.S., “hospital... AP NEWS

As hospitals care for people with COVID-19 and try to keep others from catching the virus, more patients are opting to be treated where they feel safest: at home.

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Johns Hopkins study on framework for COVID Vaccination distribution

Wed, 2020-08-19 15:21 — mike kraft

Interim Framework for COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation and Distribution in the United States The COVID-19 pandemic will continue for the foreseeable future, but widespread vaccination could hasten its end. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

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Britain to bring in mass testing to curb spread of COVID-19

Wed, 2020-08-19 12:24 — mike kraft

Britain to bring in mass testing to curb spread of COVID-19 Britain plans to bring in regular, population-wide testing for COVID-19 so it can suppress the spread of the virus and ease restrictions that have crippled its economy without triggering a second wave in one of the worst-hit countries in the world. Kate Holton U.S.

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A Novel Way to Combat Covid-19 in Nursing Homes: Strike Teams

Wed, 2020-08-19 12:12 — mike kraft

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — The coronavirus entered Cherry Springs Village quietly, then struck with force. Nearly every staff member and resident of the long-term care facility would become infected.

They needed help — fast — and the county responded: It sent in a “strike team” of medical workers, emergency responders, clergy and others, in what is becoming a new model for combating Covid-19 in residential care centers.

Nurses and doctors from hours away came to aid sick residents and replace staff who had contracted the virus. They set up oxygen and IV drips, to avoid sending residents with milder illness to overburdened hospitals.

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