March 18, 2020 Catherine West Health

Oregon lady who had coronavirus dies, area authorities say

Lane County authorities declared Tuesday night that a lady in the area who died Saturday is currently believed to have passed on from COVID-19. The case denotes the second Oregon casualty suspected to have been brought about by the virus. Lane County authorities said the lady, 60, was brought into PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend in Springfield on Saturday as she was having a heart attack. After she died that day, workers presented a coronavirus test to the

February 20, 2020 Gary Hays Health

Olympia lady isolated on a cruise ship in Japan tests positive for coronavirus

An Olympia lady who was isolated on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan over coronavirus concerns says she has tested positive for the virus. Marianne Obenchain was flown back to the U.S. on Monday by chartered flights from the U.S. government after being isolated on the ship since Feb. 4. She showed up at an isolated facility in California where she experienced testing for the virus. She was told her outcomes returned positive for coronavirus, presently known as COVID-19

February 5, 2020 Catherine West Health

Coronavirus may transmit through the digestive tract, the report uncovers

Notwithstanding respiratory droplets, the novel coronavirus that has sickened thousands globally may likewise transmit through the digestive tract, explicitly the fecal-oral route, as indicated by a report. Researchers from the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University and the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Science recently found “virus genetic material” in stool samples and rectal swabs from certain patients, Chinese state media detailed, as per Bloomberg. A few patients tainted with the novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, had reported diarrhea