A US beef production plant in Green Bay, Wisconsin will temporarily close after 189 coronavirus cases were linked to the facility, the company announced Sunday.
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Health workers tend to a Covid-19 patient in a Stamford Hospital intensive care unit, on April 24, in Stamford, Connecticut. John Moore/Getty Images The novel coronavirus has infected almost 3 million people, including 206,495 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. If you're just joining us, here's what has been happening over the past few hours.Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said that the US will need a breakthrough in testing to help screen large numbers of people.
Physicians in Orlando have used convalescent plasma transplants in 12 patients and are seeing “drastic improvements” in at least two of them. The process involves doctors testing the plasma of people who recovered for antibodies to the virus and then injecting that plasma, or a derivative of it, into a sick person.A major New York hospital network has given high doses of an over-the-counter heartburn drug to patients with Covid-19 to see if it works against the coronavirus.
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