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Every US Hospital Could Soon be Treating COVID, US Study Says

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   Every hospital in theUnitedStates may soon be treating coronavirus
   cases,thegovernment'sHealth and HumanServicesagencysays in a newreport.

   Right now, three out of four hospitals are
   treatingconfirmedorsuspectedcasesand are dealing with such problems as
   shortages of equipment, notenoughprotectivegear for doctors and nurses,
   and hospital workers who are burnedout and worried about their own
   safety.

   "Health care workers feel like they're at war right now," a New York
   hospital administrator told the investigators. "They are seeing people
   in their 30s, 40s, 50s dying...this takes a large emotional toll."

   In another newgovernmentreport, the Centers for Disease Control and
   Prevention issued itsfirststudy Monday on coronavirus in kids-- the
   largest suchU.S.study so far during the outbreak.

   Itsayschildrenmake up only 1.7% of U.S. coronavirus casesand while the
   illness isgenerallymild in kids, some do require
   hospitalization.Threechildren are known to have died from coronavirus.

   The most common COVID-19 symptoms in children are
   shortnessofbreath,feverand cough.Thenumber of cases has been slightly
   higher in boys than in girls.

   The results in the U.S. study aresimilar tothe same kind of study in
   Chinaandsayssocial distancing by all ages is highly recommended.

   Meanwhile, theNationalInstitutesofHealth, another federal agency, says
   it is expending itsstudyinto a drug calledremdesivir,whichsuccessfully
   treated other coronaviruses, SARS and MERS,in animal tests.

   Remdesivirwas given intravenously and when given early enough, it
   preventedinfection and lessened the severity of the diseases.

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