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Looking at children as the silent spreaders of SARS-CoV-2

In the most comprehensive study of COVID-19 pediatric patients to date, researchers provide critical data showing that children play a larger role in the community spread of COVID-19 than previously thought. In a study of 192 children ages 0-22, 49 children tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, and an additional 18 children had late-onset, COVID-19-related illness. The… Read More »

Principle of diet plan for density

Permissions Icon Permissions. Principle the density approach, prihciple mean energy intake or expenditure in each subgroup of interest is used, while for the more theoretically correct approach, plan estimate of the distribution of usual for intakes or expenditures is needed. Although this approach has not been tested in practical situations, it considers the variability of… Read More »

HCA Healthcare faces lawsuit for ‘recklessly’ facilitating COVID-19 spread

HCA Healthcare and its Riverside Community Hospital are being sued by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West for allegedly “recklessly” facilitating the spread of COVID-19 among its workers and the Riverside, California community. “Defendants, through knowing and reckless acts and omissions, have failed to take reasonable and necessary precautions to protect their employees,… Read More »