UPMC latest hospital system to report Q1 loss due to COVID-19

Dive Brief: UPMC reported a small operating loss but higher revenues for the quarter ending March 31. The Pittsburgh-based regional healthcare system attributed the red ink to the COVID-19 pandemic and suggested the next quarter could be even tougher. The healthcare services division “experienced significant reductions in patient volumes during the last two weeks” of… Read More »

WHO and other experts say no evidence of coronavirus losing potency

LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) – World Health Organization experts and a range of other scientists said on Monday there was no evidence to support an assertion by a high-profile Italian doctor that the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic has been losing potency. FILE PHOTO: Technical Lead for the World Health Organization (WHO) Maria Van Kerkhove attends a… Read More »