Researchers found that 3.3 million seniors lived with school-aged children. Millions of seniors – particularly those of ethnic minorities – are living with school-aged children and could be put at risk when kids return to school, according to a new report by Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a health policy group. [...] Read More... The post Are seniors being put at risk if children return to school? appeared first on Dr. Jay Bhatt Solutions ..read more

We can control the path of this deadly, destructive virus. In the United States we've learned that collective and individual action can slow the spread of COVID-19. The progress seen in New York -- which recently reported zero deaths on a given day -- proves we can control the path of this deadly, destructive virus. [...] Read More... The post As COVID-19 surges in the US, are we all willing to take it seriously? Opinion appeared first on Dr. Jay Bhatt Solutions ..read more

Age-adjusted hospitalization rates are highest among minorities. Communities of color have been bearing the brunt of the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and as multiple states across the country are seeing record-breaking spikes in COVID-19 cases, doctors are seeing a new trend: Young people of color with underlying medical conditions are being hit harder by the virus than their peers. [...] Read More... The post Young people of color with preexisting conditions face elevated COVID-19 risk appeared first on Dr. Jay Bhatt Solutions ..read more

COVID-19 can not only exacerbate existing heart problems, but cause new ones. As the coronavirus pandemic rapidly evolved into a public health crisis of global proportions, doctors and scientists embarked upon a real-time journey to uncover how the virus mercilessly attacks various parts of the body and what to do about it. While medical experts have been troubled by the respiratory virus’ tendency to wreak havoc on the lungs, perhaps more puzzling has been its relationship with the heart. [...] Read More... The post The heart: Before, during and after COVID-19 appeared first on Dr. Jay Bhatt ..read more

Allowing the virus to grow unchecked would create unthinkable loss of life. On June 26, Dr. Anthony Fauci announced it's "unlikely" that a COVID-19 vaccine with 70-75% efficacy taken by two-thirds of Americans can provide herd immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. His statement has since stirred discussion about America's anti-vaccine movement. [...] Read More... The post Is COVID-19 even subject to herd immunity? appeared first on Dr. Jay Bhatt Solutions ..read more

Coronavirus disproportionately affects Latinos, while Spanish outreach lags. After losing his job abruptly amid the coronavirus in March, Alejandro Curbelo saw a TV ad for a unique volunteering opportunity to help with contact tracing in the U.S. At the time Curbelo, a Cuban native, was living in Cancun, Mexico, and had been working in the tourism industry before being laid off. [...] Read More... The post In South Florida, volunteer contact tracers take on language barrier in urgent COVID fight appeared first on Dr. Jay Bhatt Solutions ..read more

Florida has seen an increase in cases as the state reopens. Krystal Spaulding is almost out of breath as she sprints from one critically ill patient to another at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Coronavirus cases are increasing at an alarming rate and the hospital is seeing more and more patients every day, the nurse said. [...] Read More... The post Miami hospital flooded with critical patients as coronavirus cases rise appeared first on Dr. Jay Bhatt Solutions ..read more

To lure donors, Red Cross will test blood, plasma for coronavirus antibodies. Hospitals and blood centers are renewing their alarm over a shortage of blood donations amid the coronavirus pandemic in what they said could prove another stumbling block in getting hospitals back to the business of elective surgeries, not to mention the ongoing needs of COVID-19 and trauma patients. [...] Read More... The post Hospitals in ‘dire need’ of blood as elective surgeries restart appeared first on Dr. Jay Bhatt Solutions ..read more

As businesses reopen, some look for innovative ways to keep surfaces clean. For guests checking into a high-profile California hotel, they might be staying in rooms that have been sanitized in part by an unusual new staff member: a three-foot-tall robot named Kennedy. [...] Read More... The post In hotels and beyond, UV light robots and lamps could help protect against coronavirus appeared first on Dr. Jay Bhatt Solutions ..read more

With grim experience, "care is more rational, with less sense of desperation." If a second wave of the novel coronavirus emerges in the U.S. this fall, medical experts said patients arriving in American emergency rooms will likely have an entirely different experience than what urgently sick patients saw earlier this year -- the benefit of hard-learned lessons from the deadly disease. [...] Read More... The post Coronavirus care in hospitals will be different come fall – here’s how appeared first on Dr. Jay Bhatt Solutions ..read more