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Hong Kong is making COVID-19 patients wear a tracking bracelet so they can't leave the house
Hong Kong has introduced a strict zero-COVID strategy since the beginning of the coronavirus pandem…
Sinéad Baker
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Chinese city orders all indoor pets belonging to COVID-19 patients in one neighborhood to be killed
The Anci district of Langfang city ordered the "complete culling of indoor animals," state media re…
Sinéad Baker
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Half of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the US wouldn't be there if it vaccinated as well as Europe, projection says
The Financial Times compared the US vaccination rate to the UK, Portugal, and Denmark, and calculat…
Sinéad Baker
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Florida hospital system says 50% of its COVID patients are mainly there for other reasons
The nationwide picture is unclear, but many of those in COVID-19 hospitalization statistics are not…
Marianne Guenot
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A Texas man who said he didn't get vaccinated out of 'stupidity' had both his legs amputated after COVID-19 turned his feet black
Pepe Forino, who had pre-existing conditions, says he hopes people can learn from his experience an…
Marianne Guenot
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COVID-19 patients say Omicron back pain feels like period cramps, kidney stones, or muscle spasms
Back pain has become relatively common among people recently diagnosed with COVID-19. It could offe…
Aria Bendix
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COVID-19 patient whose wife sued a Minnesota hospital for trying to take him off a ventilator has died
Scott Quiner died on Saturday, less than two weeks after his wife moved him from Minnesota to Texas…
Sophia Ankel
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A COVID-19 patient tried to sneak ivermectin into a Canadian hospital by hiding it inside a stuffed animal
The patient cut a slit in the stuffed animal and filled it with the drug, according to a memo sent …
Yelena Dzhanova
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The anti-vaxxers who 'gaslight' medics are destroying the patient-doctor relationship in America, experts warn
Emergency room doctor Stephen Sample told Insider he's feeling "demoralized" after receiving pushba…
Sophia Ankel
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COVID-19 patients in ICUs at a Florida hospital are 'begging' to be vaccinated, nurse says
A nurse at the Baptist Medical Center told CNN that she often has to explain to patients that the r…
Joshua Zitser
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COVID-positive nurses say they're being pressured to work while sick, and they're petrified of infecting patients
"I can't afford to have a day off and not get paid for it," one nurse told Insider. "But I don't wa…
Allana Akhtar,Aria Bendix
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Nurses say patients are getting more abusive, and simple questions can set them off
1 in 4 nurses faces physical violence on the job, and the hospital is one of the most dangerous wor…
Allana Akhtar
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More patients are getting COVID-19 during hospital stays. Experts worry it's because infected healthcare workers are sick on the job.
The CDC announced looser isolation rules for healthcare workers in December, then more patients sta…
Aria Bendix
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'An extraordinary effect': Pfizer says its COVID-19 pill reduced the risk of hospitalization and death by 89% in high-risk patients
"Our ability to stop living in fear is now within reach," Mikael Dolsten, Pfizer's chief scientific…
Andrew Dunn
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Half of COVID-19 patients in NYC hospitals were admitted for something else — a sign of milder Omicron cases in vaccinated people
Doctors caution that COVID-19 can still worsen outcomes for patients, regardless of why they were a…
Aria Bendix,Shayanne Gal
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The American Medical Association called out the CDC's 'confusing' COVID-19 quarantine guidance, saying it could 'put our patients at risk'
The AMA said "potentially hundreds of thousands of people" could return to work or school infectiou…
Rebecca Cohen
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Virginia's hospitals are filling up with COVID patients. Its rural, unvaccinated population may be the cause.
Virginia is split along rural-urban lines, leaving much of its populace unprotected despite the top…
Marianne Guenot
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California will allow some health workers with COVID-19 to continue working. One top nurse says it could put patients in 'grave danger.'
Health workers in California that have COVID-19 with no symptoms can work without testing or quaran…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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A Minnesota COVID-19 patient was flown to Texas after a judge prevented a hospital from disconnecting him from a ventilator
Scott Quiner, 55, who's unvaccinated, had been on a ventilator at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Mi…
Grace Kay
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A COVID-19 patient whose wife sued a hospital to have him treated with ivermectin has died
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug commonly used to fight worms in animals. The FDA has warned peo…