Clinicians should keep in mind that delirium is an early warning sign of COVID-19 in frail, elderly adults — even when cough, fever and other classic signs are absent, physician researchers say.
People receive a later diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment when they actively speak two languages every day, investigators report.
The early spread of COVID-19 in Seattle and the city of Wuhan, China, was far more extensive than initially reported, investigators say.
After previously being left out of the federal COVID-19 test allocation program, assisted living providers are about to receive a new antigen test cleared for emergency use last week by the FDA.
The test involves a credit-card-sized device that functions like some pregnancy tests. The developer expects to begin shipping large quantities in September.
The agency has posted new COVID-19 testing guidance indicating that some people without symptoms may not need to be tested — even following contact with an infected person.
The new devices are intended for testing symptomatic patients within five days of symptom onset. How this scenario will fit into CMS’s new regulations for testing staff and residents remains to be seen.
Symptomatic and asymptomatic adults carry a similar amount of the virus, a study of infected patients has found. What’s more, 81% of the asymptomatic participants had no outward signs of disease for up to 26 days beyond diagnosis.
The experimental blood test rivals the accuracy of standard diagnostic methods and may soon prove to be a cost-effective, accessible tool in the clinical setting, according to some in the scientific community.
Patients with types B or AB blood were more likely to test positive for COVID-19, whereas those with type O were least likely to test positive, a new study has found.
