Three days after the government of China put Hubei under lockdown, a local government official more than thousand kilometres away received data from telecom carriers that alerted her about people who had left Hubei and entered her town. The data had traces of the estimated locations of the mobile phones […]
One American who survived WW2 and the Spanish Flu is believed to be the oldest survivor of the virus after he recovered miraculously. Bill Lapschies, a 104-year-old veteran displayed symptoms linked with the condition on the 5th of March and was placed in isolation at the Edward C. Allworth Veterans’ […]
An elderly woman in Belgium reportedly died after she refused a ventilator in the hospital where she was treated for the coronavirus and said ‘give it someone younger’. The 90-year-old Suzanne Hoylaerts who lived in Binkom, near Lubbeek, reportedly said to the doctors that she doesn’t want artificial respiration and […]
According to Northwell Health spokesperson, large doses of vitamin C, among other meds, are being given to patients in the ICU at some hospitals in New York who have the coronavirus. The vitamin is given intravenously in quantities far over the RDA which is 90 mg for men and 75 […]
After news about an Italian innovation firm Isinnova saving lives by 3D printing ventilator valves for its local hospital, the CEOs, Cristian Fracassi and Alessandro Romaioli, got calls from all over the world. A lot of 3D printing firms wanted to join and offer their help and some countries wanted […]
Soldiers in Spain helping in the fight against the coronavirus have discovered elderly patients in care homes abandoned and in some situations, lying dead in their beds, according to the Spanish defense minister. The prosecutors in Spain said that an investigation has been opened up into this case. The soldiers […]
Bill Gates was apparently aware that a pandemic was coming and he knew that we’re not ready for it. The co-founder of Microsoft who recently announced stepping down from the board of his brainchild talked on several occasions throughout the last decade about something like the new coronavirus. Bill Gates’s […]
With cities globally setting lockdowns and quarantines because of the coronavirus outbreak and recommending people to distance themselves from each other, social media has been filled with posts about animals wandering the empty streets. Unfortunately, many of these positive animal stories were actually fake- there were no drunken elephants in […]
Through her charitable organization, the Clara Lionel Foundation named after her grandparents, the pop singer and entrepreneur Rihanna donated $5 million to different organizations on the forefront in the fight against the coronavirus. According to the official statement by her organization, in the beginning of this year, they could’ve never […]
Even though they’re in lockdown because of the coronavirus outbreak, these neighbors found a way to surprise their 80-year-old neighbor on her birthday with a cake and a song. They placed a birthday cake in front of her door and also sang her ‘Happy Birthday’ from their balconies while she […]