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Detroit’s top law enforcement officer, James Craig, tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, according to an announcement Friday afternoon.

The chief executive of a body which represents hospitals’ bosses has said that London facilities are facing a “continuous tsunami” of coronavirus patients, and said that the city’s hospitals could be overwhelmed in “days”.

A senior scientist from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the decision to lock down the UK and efforts to increase capacity at intensive care units means that the NHS may be able to cope with the worst part of the pandemic.

Members of the British Army’s 101 Logistic Brigade have begun delivering consignments of personal protection equipment for medical staff to hospitals after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a strict lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic.

A report has claimed that Lewisham and Greenwich has become the first London NHS trust to turn away coronavirus patients, sending them on to other hospitals as they struggle to keep up with incoming cases.

Hospital and health care facilities are warning that $100 billion is needed to protect workers and coronavirus patients.

The Pentagon said it was deploying its two hospital ships at the direction of the president to assist with the nation’s coronavirus response.

The nation could face a severe hospital bed shortage if it reaches the worst-case scenario with coronavirus. The Pentagon can help.

Danbury Hospital in Connecticut said Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont’s statement that it is “already at capacity” is not true.

Thieves in Germany raided hospitals in Cologne, stealing medical face masks from clinics throughout the city to re-sell on the black market, as the country grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Director-General of the Swedish National Board of Health has confirmed the country is looking into triage measures that could prioritise care for those most likely to survive serious coronavirus infection.

An Italian mayor has fallen under scrutiny for stating that patients who cannot be treated for the coronavirus “are left to die.” A doctor at a hospital in Italy’s northern region, however, has stated that “you probably don’t proceed” with patients “between 80 and 95” with serious breathing difficulties.

Hospitals will face crisis via a surge of patients infected with coronavirus, warned Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York.

As New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg demanded that mothers breastfeed their babies and insisted hospitals keep baby formula under lock and key.

Millions of Chinese people tuned in on Tuesday to a live stream of workers constructing two new hospitals built specifically to combat the deadly coronavirus outbreak in the city of Wuhan.

Government health workers in China are actively refusing to test likely cases of the newly discovered coronavirus originating in central Wuhan city, a report claimed on Monday, echoing witness accounts that Wuhan hospitals turned them away despite displaying telltale signs of infection.

Beginning in 2021, the Västra Götaland region in Sweden will start to send its surgeons to South Africa in order to better learn how to treat knife and gunshot wounds. The programme, which will see surgeons travel down to the city

Hospitals have reportedly granted Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, and Google access to detailed patient information as part of deals to process millions of medical records.

A Michigan family honored their late son by donating 700 toys as Christmas presents to local pediatric hospitals in his memory.

In a recent interview, tech guru Peter Diamandis made the case for the big tech Masters of the Universe becoming America’s healthcare providers. Diamandis believes that if companies like Google and Amazon can gather even more information about every detail of your life, they will be better able to manage your health than traditional doctors and hospitals.

The finalized price transparency rule, implemented in January 2021, requires hospitals to disclose negotiated rates with insurance companies.

Ten hospitals across the United States and Australia were victims of ransomware attacks that hijacked computer systems, forcing some of the hospitals to turn away all but the most critical patients.

Veterans Affairs hospitals will not be “religion-free zones,” Vice President Mike Pence said during a speech on Wednesday.

Some hospitals in Japan have begun imposing conditions before attending to foreign patients and at least one has refused to treat non-Japanese residents, Mainichi Shimbun reported on Sunday.

A pregnant North Korean mother and her child died at one of Pyongyang’s top women’s hospitals after she was unable to pay a bribe for treatment, Radio Free Asia reported Wednesday.

A member of a colectivo, the violent socialist gangs the dictatorship uses to stay in power, appeared on Venezuelan television Thursday condemning Nicolás Maduro for failing to repair the only hospital in the nation with a toxicology specialization.

A federal requirement requiring hospitals to post how much they charge for their services online will go into effect on January 1, 2019.

Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and Salesforce have launched a campaign for restrictions on data sharing between hospitals to be dropped.

The California State Assembly’s Health Committee passed a labor-backed bill on a strict 11-4 partisan vote last week under which the state would create a commission to socialize the price of all healthcare service costs.

Medical authorities in Germany have sounded the alarm over gaps in professional knowledge of doctors from outside of Europe, which they say threaten the quality of patient care.

TEL AVIV – Unlike their U.S. counterparts, Israeli doctors are not required to be vaccinated against influenza and in cases where they do receive the flu shot, they are forbidden from displaying a pin advertising that fact to patients, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday.

The number of people forced to wait long periods in ambulances rose dramatically during the Christmas period, whilst Britain’s hospitals were dangerously full.

All hospitals in Britain’s socialised National Health Service (NHS) have been ordered to cancel all non-emergency operations until at least the end of this month, as the worst winter crisis in 30 years takes hold.

The health crisis in socialist Venezuela is now reaching apocalyptic proportions as hospitals and pharmacies have just a fraction of the medicine and resources required to give people adequate medical treatment.

LONDON (AP) — An American doctor specializing in treating rare genetic conditions is set to meet with other specialists treating Charlie Gard, assessing the critically ill 11-month-old for the first time.

TEL AVIV – A senior Palestinian Authority official has donated tens of thousands of shekels to the pediatric oncology department of Rambam Medical Center after receiving life-saving cancer treatment at the hospital.