Mass media has emphasized the controversy of dying “with” or dying “from” COVID-19. That is, the difference between having suffered COVID-19, but dying from another cause; or dying due to COVID-19.1 This controversy overlapped the lack of official counts of death causes, in time and...
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has caused excess deaths (all causes) and has disproportionately affected the elderly with certain characteristics. Objectives To study how COVID-19 affected cancer deaths regarding age, sex, socio-economic status, comorbidities, and access to palliative care. An add...
A study out of China involving 99 cases found that two-thirds of the patients who required hospitalization were male, while data out of Italy suggests 70 percent of the country’s COVID-19 fatalities involve men. As of Friday, Italy’s case count had surpassed 41,000, with over 3,400 ...
Drawing on interviews we conducted with 15 medical assistance in dying (MAiD) providers from across Canada, we examine how physicians and nurse practitioners reconcile respect for the new, changing rules brought upon by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, along with their existing leg...
BackgroundCoronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a global pandemic with significant mortality. Accurate information on the specific circumstances of death and whether patients died from or with SARS-CoV-2 is scarce....
NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The vaccination rates of American adults aged 65 and older are still low, and the unvaccinated elderly have been dying from COVID-19 at incredibly high rates, The Atlantic magazine has reported. So far this year, three-quarters of COVID-19 deaths in the ...
Delirium as the first clin- ical presentation of COVID-19 was shown by Poloni et al. to be associated with old age and with multiple co- morbidities, but not with sex, in a dementia facility [8]. In a Spanish study examining patients with COVID-19 admitted to an emergency department,...
“Right now, in the United States, in the UK, a lot of these more developed countries – it’s actually the black people and the minorities who are dying from COVID; who are not vaccinated,” Massiah said. The issue of misinformation, which has been rampant on various social platforms ...
looked at the relationship between a COVID infection and the protein troponin in the blood, which is associated with heart muscle injury or heart attack. It found that 61% of people hospitalized with COVID-19 who had high troponin levels had heart abnormalities, such a scarring from a heart...
Parents of seven children die after being hospitalized with Covid Seven children are grieving the loss of their parents after both got infected by COVID-19. Both the mother and father were 44 years old. FOX 2-Seven children are grieving the loss of their parents after both ...