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We ’re All in This Together: Facing the Coronavirus Crisis
I am writing this article from bed, listening to the sweet sounds of Sleepy Hollow on University of Pennsylvania station, WXPN, which includes easing into the day music that is a regular part of my Saturday morning. I plan to remain at home, not interacting physically with other human beings, but certainly available via phone or cyberspace. Thankfully, I am showing no symptoms of COVID-19, but I am monitoring closely, since I was in the hospital three times in the past month for cardiac and kidney stone related issues which puts me in a high-risk group, along with being part of the over-60 crowd.
Except for going to work ...
Source: World of Psychology - March 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Health-related Personal anxiety community coronavirus social distancing Source Type: blogs
Coronavirus: Germany seals its borders as 100m Europeans on lockdown
Restrictions on travel and commerce across continent as countries scramble to contain threatCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWalls are being raised and mass quarantines enforced across Europe to combat the spread of the coronavirus, with Germany the latest to partly seal its borders, banning entrants from France, Switzerland and Austria from Monday.More than 100 million people across the continent are on lockdown after Spain announced it would follow Italy in confining citizens to their homes for 15 days unless they had to buy food or medicine, go to work or seek medical treatment.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 15, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Michael Safi, Philip Oltermann and Patrick Wintour Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Infectious diseases Science World news Europe Italy Spain UK news Source Type: news
Family of Manchester coronavirus victim pay tribute to 'gracious gentleman'
Darrell Blakeley ’s family ask for acts of kindness in his memory amid rise in ‘mutual aid’ volunteer groupsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe family of a talented 88-year-old church choir singer who died after catching coronavirus have appealed for acts of kindness to be carried out in his memory.Darrell Blakeley, who died on Friday evening at a Manchester hospital, is thought to have been infected following contact at a restaurant with someone who had recently returned from a skiing trip to Italy.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 16, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Simon Murphy Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Infectious diseases Science Manchester UK news Greater Manchester Source Type: news
Coronavirus: EU travel ban imminent as France enters 'war' footing
Macron tells citizens to prepare for ‘long and difficult crisis’ ahead of EU leaders’ conferenceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe EU is set to endorse the strictest travel ban in its history as France joined Italy and Spain in full lockdown and Donald Trump told Americans to change their behaviour, acknowledging for the first time that beating the coronavirus could take months.EU leaders are expected on Tuesday to suspend all travel into the passport-free Schengen zone by non-EU nationals for at least 30 days in a bid to instil uniformity across the bloc after some member states, inclu...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 17, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Jon Henley, Europe correspondent Tags: Coronavirus outbreak France Italy Spain Europe Infectious diseases Medical research Science World news European Union Source Type: news
EU brings in travel ban as France joins coronavirus lockdown
All travel into Schengen area is suspended while Donald Trump admits scale of challengeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe EU has endorsed the strictest travel ban in its history as France joined Italy and Spain in full lockdown and Donald Trump told Americans to change their behaviour,acknowledging for the first time that beating the coronavirus could take months.EU leaders on Tuesday suspended all travel into the passport-free Schengen zone by non-EU nationals for at least 30 days in an attempt to instil uniformity across the bloc after some member states, including Austria, Hungary, the Cze...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 17, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Jon Henley Europe correspondent Tags: Coronavirus outbreak France Italy Spain Europe Infectious diseases Medical research Science World news European Union Source Type: news
Scientists have been sounding the alarm on coronavirus for months. Why did Britain fail to act? | Richard Horton
The warnings from China and Italy were loud and clear. But politicians and their advisers wasted valuable time – and lives will be lost as a result• Richard Horton is editor of the Lancet medical journalCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOn 24 January, Chinese doctors and scientists reported the first description of a new disease caused by a novel coronavirus. They described how a strange series of cases of pneumonia had presented in December in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people and the capital of Hubei province. At that time, 800 cases of the new disease had been confirmed. The virus had al...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 18, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Richard Horton Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Science China Infectious diseases Medical research Italy UK news World news Europe Asia Pacific Source Type: news
Coronavirus is a political problem, not just a health problem. Remember that when you vote | Kelly Candaele
There ’s a connection between America’s lack of commitment to collective wellbeing and the social disaster we suffer in times of crisisI don ’t know if I have had the coronavirus (Covid-19). What I do know is that I developed pneumonia two weeks after returning to Los Angeles in early February from a visit with my wife’s family in northern Italy.Related:Italy records its deadliest day of coronavirus outbreak with 475 deathsContinue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 19, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Kelly Candaele Tags: Coronavirus outbreak US politics Health Society Infectious diseases Science Source Type: news
Italy becomes country with most coronavirus deaths
Rome announces 427 new fatalities as lockdown measures are extended in FranceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageItaly ’s death toll from the coronavirus has overtaken China’s as authorities in Rome announced 427 new fatalities in the past 24 hours, taking the country’s total to 3,405 – more than the 3,245 recorded in China, where the outbreak began late last year.As European governments struggle to contain the rapidly spreading epidemic and China, for the first time, reported no new cases, the Civil Protection Agency said on Thursday that the total number of infections in Italy rose to 41...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 19, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Jon Henley, Europe correspondent, and Kim Willsher Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Infectious diseases Science World news Europe France Italy UK news Germany Spain Source Type: news
Coronavirus: how Asian countries acted while the west dithered
In Hong Kong and Taiwan, deaths are in single figures. But Europe gambled on a containment strategyCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe first coronavirus cases in Taiwan and Italy came only 10 days apart. On Sunday Taiwan, which has deep cultural and economic ties to China, has recorded just 153 cases and two deaths. Italy has more than 47,000 cases and 4,032 people have died.Italy ’s epidemic is currently the most devastating in the world;its death toll overtook China ’s last week and on Saturday officials in Lombardy said deaths in that region had jumped by 546 in one day to 3,095. The pa...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 21, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Emma Graham-Harrison Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Taiwan South Korea Italy World news Science Infectious diseases Asia Pacific Europe Source Type: news
Coronavirus: Italy bans any movement inside country as toll nears 5,500
PM shuts down all non-essential factories and businesses as lockdowns spread across the worldCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageUK military drafted in to coordinate food supply for vulnerableItaly has banned any movement inside the country and closed all non-essential businesses as it desperately seeks to stem the spread of coronavirus following a horror weekend in which more than 1,400 people died.The escalating measures, which leave the government short of remaining population control levers, came as the rate at which Covid-19 spread around the world continued to accelerate, growing by more 130...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 22, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Michael Safi, Angela Giuffrida and Martin Farrer Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Italy China Science Asia Pacific Infectious diseases US news Source Type: news
Coronavirus pandemic leading to huge drop in air pollution
‘Largest scale experiment ever’ shows what is possible as satellite images reveal marked fall in global nitrogen dioxide levelsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe coronavirus pandemic is shutting down industrial activity and temporarily slashing air pollution levels around the world, satellite imagery from the European Space Agency shows.One expert said the sudden shift represented the “largest scale experiment ever” in terms of the reduction of industrial emissions.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 23, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Jonathan Watts and Niko Kommenda Tags: Pollution Environment Coronavirus outbreak Science Climate change Infectious diseases World news China South Korea Italy UK news Source Type: news
Coronavirus live news: UK placed under lockdown as Trump insists US will 'reopen' soon
Police to enforce UK lockdown; US president tells country not to blame Asian Americans; UN calls for global ceasefire; WHO says virus accelerating. Follow the latest updates5.39amGMTEven though it was 56 years ago, Kazuo Goto still vividly remembers his pride as he carried the Olympic flame on the last day of the torch relay when Tokyo hosted the Games in 196, AFP reports.5.32amGMTHere is how newspapers on the morning of Tuesday, 24 March have covered Prime Minister Boris Johnson ’s historic announcement.The Guardian says today that Boris Johnson will order police to enforce a strict coronavirus lockdown, with gatherings...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 24, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Helen Sullivan Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Europe Australia news Italy UK news Boris Johnson Donald Trump US news South Africa Middle East and North Africa Infectious diseases World news Science Politics Source Type: news
Vitamin D and coronavirus
I’ve been cautious, very cautious, about writing a post on supplements that might help reduce the risk of being infected with Covid-19, for what I think are obvious reasons!, but this morning I came across an interesting new study by the University of Turin showing that hospitalized coronavirus patients here in Italy have very low levels of vitamin D.
Low levels of vitamin D might also explain why the virus has been killing mostly elderly people here in Italy…
At any rate, this news just got released, so I couldn’t find any articles in English, unfortunately, but you can use Google Translate, if needed. H...
Source: Margaret's Corner - March 27, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll vitamin D and coronavirus Source Type: blogs
Coronavirus live news: number of global cases passes 750,000 with death toll over 36,000
Israel ’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in self-isolation; Moscow announces lockdown of 12m people; Syria records first deathCoronavirus latest: at a glanceNew study sheds light on infection mechanismHungary passes law that critics say will let Orb án rule by decreeUK coronavirus updates – liveSee all our coronavirus coverage8.23pmBSTCardinalAngelo De Donatis, Pope Francis ’ vicar for the archdiocese of Rome, has become the highest-ranking Catholic official known to have tested positive.De Donatis ’ office has said he was tested for the virus after feeling unwell and has been admitted to a Rome hospital. His c...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 30, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Kevin Rawlinson (now), Damien Gayle, Ben Quinn, Aamna Mohdin and Helen Sullivan (earlier) Tags: Coronavirus outbreak World news UK news Europe US news Asia Pacific China Infectious diseases Science Medical research Microbiology Source Type: news
'They are leading us to catastrophe': Sweden's coronavirus stoicism begins to jar
There ’s a surreal calm in the last country in Europe to hold out against lockdown. But the death toll is rising and some are voicing dissentCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Øresund Bridge – yes,thatbridge– is an engineering marvel linking the Swedish city of Malmö and Copenhagen that normally transports 70,000 people daily. It has fallen eerily silent. Denmark is under coronavirus lockdown, and the Danes have imposed strict border controls. On the Swedish side, the Øresund remains open, although , understandably not many are making that journey.It feels surreal in Sweden just now....
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 30, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Derek Robertson in Malm ö Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Sweden Europe Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Science World news Source Type: news
