When the coronavirus crept into Maryland, hospital staffs and administrators started bracing for a potential surge, racing to prevent a situation in which patients seeking care outnumber available beds. Since then, the states health department has reported that over 4,200 Marylanders have been hospitalized for complications related to COVID-19 since March Continue reading →

More than 50 regional NHS staff from NHS England and NHS Improvements Midlands team have been redeployed to support the frontline teams fighting Covid-19. Jodie Powell is a Senior Programme Manager in transforming the cardiac and stroke services in the Midlands but is now a matron at the new Nightingale Hospital in Birmingham. The temporary hospital was opened by the Duke of Cambridge earlier this month. Continue reading →

Photo: John Minchillo, AP U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of pandemic, far exceeding number attributed to covid-19 In the early weeks of the coronavirus epidemic, the United States recorded an estimated 15,400 excess deaths, nearly two times as many as were publicly attributed to covid-19 at the time, according to an analysis of federal data conducted for The Washington Post by a research team led by the Yale School of Public Health. The excess deaths - the number beyond what would normally be expected for that time of year - occurred during March and through April 4, a time when 8,128 coronavirus deaths were reported Continue reading →

A FORMER Glasgow nurse who delayed emergency helpbecause she didnt want to burden NHS staff dealing with Covid-19 cases is lucky to be alive after suffering a massive heart attack. Continue reading →

SINGAPORE - When the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) broke out in Singapore in 2003, DrHoi Shu Yin, then a front-line nurse at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), saw the uncertainties and damage it caused. Continue reading →

Lockdown may have sent the vehicles off the roads, but Selina Begum hasnt stopped driving. The 30-year-old woman from Dakshin Hemtabad, a small village in Hemtabad block and around 20km from here, has made a mark for herself in this hour of crisis as she has not vanished indoors like many of her male and female colleagues. Selina keeps driving her ambulance to ferry patients from remotest corners of North Dinajpur to hospitals Continue reading →