Health

By Sara Berg / Senior News Writer / AMA  – In a panel of the nation’s leading physician bodies, physicians discussed how COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting physicians and communities of color. As the number of COVID-19 cases […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic in Florida is significantly ramping up efforts to process and test COVID-19 specimens for existing patients and the Florida region. In an effort to help the local community during the […]

Dr. Armen Henderson, left, a University of Miami internist, conducts a COVID-19 test on Barry Alston in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood on March 27.  Recently, Henderson said he was outside his house when a Miami police […]

By  Monica Torres   Reusing disposable gloves may increase the risk of germ exposure during the coronavirus pandemic. Because the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can spread via contaminated surfaces, some people are taking the extra step of wearing gloves for […]

S. E. Williams | Contributor The California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) website displays an informative graphic titled “COVID-19 by the Numbers.”  This graphic updates the status of COVID-19 cases in California as it spreads […]

By Stacy M. Brown — Medical experts have also sounded the alarm that the virus could well be transmitted through the air. “Currently available research supports the possibility that (COVID-19) could be spread via bioaerosols […]

by Lydia Blanco– Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, viral immunologist at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (Image: National Institutes of Health) Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett, viral […]

By Soraya Nadia McDonald A look at how Jim Crow affected the treatment of African Americans fighting the Spanish flu n American epidemics, race is a preexisting condition. Whether it’s the influenza pandemic of 1918 […]