JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After a British study published recently proved that an immune suppressor steroid called Dexamethasone could reduce deaths by up to one third in severely ill hospitalized patients, several Israeli hospitals including Sheba, Hadassah and Ichilov revealed that they had routinely treated seriously ill patients with the steroid even before the British trial […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are cracking down on three companies for selling at-home blood tests for coronavirus, warning that the products have not been shown to safely and accurately screen for COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration sent warning letters to the companies Wednesday, saying their products are illegal because they have not […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Knesset approved extending emergency measures targeting the spread of the coronavirus as the number of cases in Israel saw its largest one-day increase in the past two months. The legislation, which will remain in force for 45 days starting Wednesday, was approved late Tuesday night, as the last emergency measures expired. […]

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese media say more than 60% of commercial flights in and out of Beijing have been canceled as the city raises alert level amid a new coronavirus outbreak. The website of the Communist Party’s Global Times said that as of 9 a.m. Wednesday, a total of 1,255 flights to and from the […]

AMMAN (VINnews) — Jordan’s King Abdullah has reiterated his warning that Israel’s planned move to annex parts of Judea and Samaria next month will threaten Middle East stability. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to extend sovereignty to Jewish settlements in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley, territory which Israel captured from Jordan in […]

ROME — A national survey of the psychological impact of coronavirus lockdowns on Italian children has quantified what many parents noticed offhand during weeks cooped up at home: Their kids were more irritable, had trouble sleeping and for some of the youngest, wept inconsolably and regressed developmentally. The survey, conducted by the Giannina Gaslini Pediatric […]

LONDON (AP) – Researchers in England say they have the first evidence that a drug can improve COVID-19 survival: A steroid called dexamethasone reduced deaths by up to one third in severely ill hospitalized patients. Results were announced Tuesday and researchers said they would publish them soon. The study is a large, strict test that […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Outside a back door to a hospital where the coronavirus hit like a hurricane, a half-dozen staffers gathered recently to look back, and look inward. “I am still scared,” Dr. Gwen Hooley told her colleagues at Elmhurst Hospital, which was swamped with patients in late March as the virus rampaged through […]

NEW YORK (Newsmax) – Although many people returning to work fear that taking the elevator is a major way that the coronavirus is transmitted, this does not appear to be the case, ABC News reported on Monday. A study of a virus spread in March at a 19-story building in Seoul, South Korea, suggested that […]

NEW YORK (VINnews/Facebook) — The observant Jewish community is no longer welcome in New York. Our way of life is being trampled on, our needs are dismissed with ease, our vote is irrelevant and cannot change a thing. We are being mocked, humiliated, and relegated to third-class status with shockingly cocky dismissiveness by politicians who […]