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Dwindling Medical Supplies Expressed in Number of Days Left

Paper bags hold N95 masks that staff in the Eskenazi Hospital COVID-19 ICU need to save for reuse. W. Graham Carlos/Indiana University, Author provided

A dispatch from the front lines: ‘We don’t talk in terms of supply numbers, we talk in terms of days’

W. Graham Carlos, Indiana University School of Medicine

Brown paper bags line the windowsill of the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Eskenazi Hospital in downtown Indianapolis. The bags are filled with the N95 masks we’re reusing, labeled with the handwritten names of my staff: Patrick, Angela, Brittany. They are mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters.

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A new type of vaccine using RNA could help defeat COVID-19

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round blue objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. NIAID-RML

Sanjay Mishra, Vanderbilt University and Robert Carnahan, Vanderbilt University

A century ago, on July 26, 1916, a viral disease swept through New York. Within 24 hours, new cases of polio increased by more than 68%. The outbreak killed more than 2,000 people in New York City alone. Across the United States, polio took the lives of about 6,000 people in 1916, leaving thousands more paralyzed.

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Loss of your sense of smell and taste an early sign of COVID-19

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Is the loss of your sense of smell and taste an early sign of COVID-19?

Steven D. Munger, University of Florida and Jeb M. Justice, University of Florida

Doctors from around the world are reporting cases of COVID-19 patients who have lost their sense of smell, known as anosmia, or taste, known as ageusia. The director of the University of Florida’s Center for Smell and Taste and the co-director of the UF Health Smell Disorders Program answer questions about this emerging trend.

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Preventing COVID-19 from decimating nursing home residents

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Protecting nursing home residents will require spending money and improving infection control

Kathryn Hyer, University of South Florida; David Dosa, Brown University, and Lindsay J. Peterson, University of South Florida

At least 11 people have died from COVID-19 in New Orleans nursing homes in the past week, just after the deaths at a Seattle nursing home weeks ago showed the extreme danger of the virus in nursing home settings.

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The silent threat of the coronavirus: America’s dependence on Chinese pharmaceuticals

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The silent threat of the coronavirus: America’s dependence on Chinese pharmaceuticals

Christine Crudo Blackburn, Texas A&M University ; Andrew Natsios, Texas A&M University ; Gerald W Parker, Texas A&M University , and Leslie Ruyle, Texas A&M University

As the new coronavirus, called 2019-nCoV, spreads rapidly around the globe, the international community is scrambling to keep up. Scientists rush to develop a vaccine, policymakers debate the most effective containment methods, and health care systems strain to accommodate the growing number of sick and dying. Though it may sound like a scene from the 2011 movie “Contagion,” it is actually an unfolding reality.

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Winter and February 2020 end as second warmest on record

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Republished from article on Climate.gov
Author: Tom Di Liberto
March 16, 2020

February 2020 marked the warm end to one of the most unusually warm months and winters on record for the globe. Both the month and the winter season finished second to 2016. This was among the many highlights of the February 2020 global climate summary released by the National Centers for Environmental Information last week.

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Calling COVID-19 a ‘Chinese virus’ is wrong and dangerous

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The COVID-19 pandemic has spread to almost every country on Earth. And yet, several American officials refer to it as the “Wuhan virus” or even the “Chinese virus.”

U.S.-Chinese antagonism in this vein is not new. But, while this deliberate move to associate Wuhan, and more generally China, with the COVID pandemic serves a political purpose for the Trump administration, it also has significant implications for civil society and public health.

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COVID-19 treatment might already exist in old drugs

Nevan Krogan, University of California, San Francisco

Why don’t we have drugs to treat COVID-19 and how long will it take to develop them?

SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19 – is completely new and attacks cells in a novel way. Every virus is different and so are the drugs used to treat them. That’s why there wasn’t a drug ready to tackle the new coronavirus that only emerged a few months ago.

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Limited eating times could be a new way to fight obesity and diabetes

Time limits on eating may help to keep diabetics’ blood glucose in check. ratmaner/Shutterstock.com

Satchin Panda, University of California San Diego and Pam Taub, University of California San Diego

People with obesity, high blood sugar, high blood pressure or high cholesterol are often advised to eat less and move more, but our new research suggests there is now another simple tool to fight off these diseases: restricting your eating time to a daily 10-hour window.

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Hangovers happen as your body tries to protect itself from alcohol’s toxic effects

A night of revelry can mean an uncomfortable day after. Everett Collection/Shutterstock.com

Daryl Davies, University of Southern California; Joshua Silva, University of Southern California, and Terry David Church, University of Southern California

Debaucherous evening last night? You’re probably dealing with veisalgia right now.

More commonly known as a hangover, this unpleasant phenomenon has been dogging humanity since our ancestors first happened upon fermentation.

Those nasty vertigo-inducing, cold sweat-promoting and vomit-producing sensations after a raucous night out are all part of your body’s attempt to protect itself from injury after you overindulge in alcoholic beverages. Your liver is working to break down the alcohol you consumed so your kidneys can clear it out ASAP. But in the process, your body’s inflammatory and metabolic reactions are going to lay you low with a hangover.

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