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Primary care can seem like a general, slightly ambiguous term. What does it really mean? What is a primary care provider? Well, primary care is indeed general medical care. In fact, a primary care provider — who may come from family medicine or internal medicine, depending on your needs — is specialized in diagnosing, treating …

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The novel coronavirus spreads easily and is causing respiratory illness around the world. Symptoms of COVID-19 can include fever, cough, and trouble breathing. Additional symptoms may include chills, body aches, runny nose, sore throat, headache, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea. While many patients are asymptomatic or experience only mild symptoms, some people develop more severe complications …

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President Trump is providing support to health care providers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The President signed the bipartisan Families First Coronavirus Response Act or FFCRA (P.L. 116-127), which appropriates $1 billion to reimburse providers for conducting COVID-19 testing for the uninsured, and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (P.L. 116-136), which provides …

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This is from the CDC.gov website. Make an appointment today with Dr. Shih at 978-521-6555 and schedule a virtual visit. Know How it Spreads There is currently no vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus. The virus is thought to spread …

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HAVERHILL — The city’s head school nurse has tested positive for the new coronavirus, Superintendent Margaret Marotta said Friday. Katie Vozeolas, director of Health and Nursing Services for Haverhill schools, tested positive three days after she first began feeling symptoms related to COVID-19. “She left work immediately upon feeling ill on the 17th and has …

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While the US death toll from coronavirus has now topped 1,000, exhausted hospital workers are turning to increasingly desperate measures to combat the virus.New York Bellevue Hospital Center created a makeshift morgue using tents and refrigerated trucks. At Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, 13 patients died from coronavirus within 24 hours.In California, the number of cases …

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From influenza to the coronavirus (COVID-19), televisits are an increasingly valuable tool in the fight against the spread of infection. Sick patients get the care they need from the comfort of home and physicians can treat more patients, helping to mitigate the spread of disease without sacrificing quality of care. Virtual care continues to surge as …

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