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Nationwide Coronavirus Cases Are Down – But So Is Testing

“I want to be enthusiastic about the numbers going down, but it’s really hard to convince me that it’s not because we’re just doing fewer tests,” says Sadiya Khan, an assistant professor of cardiology and preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

Study: Deaths from heart failure and high blood pressure are rising in the US, and Black men and women suffer more severely

The findings are significant, because they’ll inform the health care community in developing better prevention strategies, particularly for heart failure and hypertension, said Dr. Nilay Shah, the study’s lead author and a Northwestern Medicine physician.[…] “This (study) really outlined that, despite the progress we’ve made in coronary heart disease related to heart attack deaths, it’s all been completely erased, it seems, by heart failure and high blood pressure,” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, a co-author of the study and an assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern.

New U.S. Coronavirus Cases Tick Up Again as Back-to-School Worries Intensify

“We need to keep up, if not accelerate, the testing pace,” said Dr. Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of the department of preventive medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

Ms. Carnethon used Vermont, where the prevalence of the virus has been low, as an example. “Even if a place has low rates of disease, we need to continue testing there” to monitor what is happening in the population, she said.

Why Your Brain Short-Circuits When a Kid Cries

So I asked Crystal Clark, M.D., a psychiatrist and associate professor at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, for advice on how to manage the mid-work meltdowns. First, she said, be sure to check in with your kid about how they’re feeling. You know your child best: If their upset is extreme, try to take even just a brief period out of your work day to soothe them.

Black and Hispanic children are impacted more severely by coronavirus, research shows

Dr. Khalilah Gates, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital told CNN Saturday that the CDC research gives us new information about the virus’ impact on children that can help us make informed decisions about opening schools. “We can’t back off of testing, and we do have to have more rapid testing,” Gates added.

Can You Protect Kids from COVID-19 at School?

“This isn’t the time to find loopholes in the guidelines,” said Taylor Heald-Sargent, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine outside Chicago. “The CDC guidelines are just that, they’re guidelines, and it’s really the nuances that make the difference.”

University of Washington forecasts 300,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths

On the positive side, medical professionals have a better understanding of what they are dealing with, said Dr Khalilah Gates, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. “We don’t know all of it, but it’s not the fear of the unknown anymore,” she told Reuters.

What racism does to your heart, health

Black people who have experienced anti-Blackness may have shorter life expectancies, said Clyde Yancy, chief of the cardiology division at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Yancy cited a 2014 American Journal of Preventive Medicine study, which revealed that experiencing bias accelerates aging for Black men.

Health illiteracy is nothing new in America. But the pandemic magnifies how troubling it is.

One in five people struggle with health information, says Michael S. Wolf, director of the Center for Applied Health Research on Aging at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. “It’s easy to misunderstand [medical information],” says Wolf, who is also founding director of the medical school’s Health Literacy and Learning Program. Some will be too ashamed to say so while others won’t realize they missed a critical detail.