BERN, SWITZERLAND (VINnews) — Swiss health authorities have announced that children under the age of 10 can hug their grandparents again without fear of infecting them with coronavirus. The change of advice came after Swiss scientists concluded that young children pose no risk of infection from Covid-19 because they do not have the “receptors” targeted by […]

NEW YORK (AP) – It starts with pulling on head-to-toe protective gear. Then comes a brisk walk down a hospital corridor, triple-gloved hands pushing a rattling anesthesia cart toward a door that leads to a frightened patient, gasping for air. Hundreds of times every week during this pandemic, doctors and nurses treating critically ill COVID-19 […]

NEW YORK (AP) -A biotech company said Wednesday its experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major U.S. government study that put it to a strict test. Gilead Sciences’s remdesivir would be the first treatment to pass such a test against the virus, which has killed more than 218,000 people since […]

TUCSON, ARIZ. (VINNews) — In a letter to Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) presents a frequently updated table of studies that report results of treating COVID-19 with the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ, Plaquenil®). To date, the total number of reported patients treated with HCQ, […]

BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE (VINnews) — Dr John Wright related to the BBC a moving love stories from the COVID-19 wards of Bradford Royal Infirmary –  about a patient whose last wish was to marry his fiancee, which he succeeded in doing just hours before he died. This is a time of such heightened emotions – of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a clip released by Rav Asher Weiss, he urged exceptional caution despite the fact that the Israeli government has eased restrictions and opened the lockdown on workplaces and stores as well as allowing minyanim and mikvaos. Rav Asher stressed that Jewish values require us to be more careful for the welfare […]

PARIS, FRANCE (VINnews) — 98-year-old Dr. Christian Chenay is living proof that age is just a number. Despite his advanced age and the raging COVID-19 virus which has claimed the lives of more than 20,000 people in France, Dr. Chenay continues to treat his patients- both virtually and in the case of a nursing home […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A Yahoo News reporter apologized to President Donald Trump on Tuesday for misreading a chart and getting wrong the numbers he used as the basis for a question on U.S. testing for the coronavirus. Trump taunted the reporter, Hunter Walker, after Dr. Deborah Birx corrected the numbers during an Oval Office […]

BOSTON (AP) – Nearly 70 residents sickened with the coronavirus have died at a Massachusetts home for aging veterans, as state and federal officials try to figure out what went wrong in the deadliest known outbreak at a long-term care facility in the U.S. While the death toll at the state-run Holyoke Soldiers’ Home continues […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City schools will implement a new grading system for the remainder of the coronavirus-disrupted school year, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday. Elementary school students will be graded “meeting the standards” or “needing improvement” while high school students will have a pass-fail grading option, de Blasio said. Acknowledging that […]