While the state hasn’t recommended that hospital workers use handmade masks, Facebook groups are filling requests from health care providers.
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Key medical glove factories cutting staff 50% amid virus
Malaysia, the world’s largest medical glove supplier, stopped all manufacturing last week and factories have had to seek exemptions to reopen.
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Border towns see run on drug touted by Trump but unproven as coronavirus cure
The demand in Mexico is so high that pharmacists now require written prescriptions that state the medicine is for patients with conditions for which hydroxychloroquine is normally used.
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Can blood from coronavirus survivors treat the newly ill?
Plasma infusions were used most famously during the 1918 flu pandemic.
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For immune-suppressed patients, coronavirus a terrifying danger
‘Every time people don’t do social distancing is putting me closer and closer to death,’ one patient says.
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Young people urged to adhere to social distancing, but are they?
Some parents and educators say young people, in particular, are finding it hard to keep their distance to reduce infection risk.
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Italian death toll overtakes China’s as virus spreads
Italy has the world’s second-oldest population, and the vast majority of its dead – 87% – were over 70.
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Coronavirus how-to: How to clean your gadgets
Your cellphone is a germ factory.
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Coronavirus how-to: How do I clean and disinfect properly?
They aren’t the same thing.
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Gov. Mills closes restaurant dining rooms and bars, prohibits social gatherings of more than 10
The governor issues the executive order, which runs through March 31, after the number of coronavirus cases in the state goes from zero to 42 in less than a week.