"My heart, my heart." They said it was just a matter of time because he was losing so much oxygen, Hicks said. He just went into cardiac arrest and he slipped away. He passed away at Florida Medical Center. One minute, I hear shes fine, shes stable the next thing I hear, her kidneys are failing.Loved ones tell Local 10 that the 23-year-old passed away 11 days after her brother; both testing positive for Covid-19. "We never thought in a million years that a virus would come and take out two of our loved ones within 11 days," cousin Darisha Scott said.

Autopsies on people who died of the coronavirus are helping doctors understand how the disease affects the body -- and one of the most remarkable findings concerned blood clotting, a pathologist says. Some Covid-19 patients are known to develop blood clotting issues, but the degree and the extent to which that occurs was described as "dramatic" by Rapkiewicz. In the early stages of the pandemic, bedside clinicians noticed a lot of blood clotting "in lines and various large vessels," she said. "The clotting was not only in the large vessels but also in the smaller vessels. "Notably in the heart, megakaryocytes produce something called platelets that are intimately involved in blood clotting.

The US Environmental Protection Agency has approved two Lysol products as effective against the novel coronavirus when used on hard, non-porous surfaces. Lysol Disinfectant Spray and Lysol Disinfectant Max Cover Mist meet the EPA's criteria for use against the SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the ongoing pandemic, based on laboratory testing that found both products kill the virus two minutes after contact, the agency announced in a statement Monday. While there are more than 420 products on the list of disinfectants that the EPA says are strong enough to ward off "harder-to-kill" viruses than the novel coronavirus, the two Lysol products are the first to have been tested directly against the virus and proved effective. Lysol said in a statement it is currently working on testing the efficacy of other disinfectant products against Covid-19. The CDC recommends that people always read the instructions on cleaning products.

(Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)HOUSTON If youve wondered what activities could put you at risk of contracting COVID-19, the Texas Medical Association has a chart with its rankings explaining which behaviors have low, moderate and high risk. The rankings are based on TMA physicians and its Committee on Infectious Diseases findings. TMA is the nations largest state medical society, according to its website. The rankings are based on findings by the organizations coronavirus task force and its Committee on Infectious Diseases.

HOUSTON The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Emergency Use Authorization for the Kroger brands COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit, the grocery chain announced Wednesday. Heres how Kroger Healths COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit works, as described by the company:The home collection is performed under the supervision of a licensed healthcare professional. Upon receipt of the home collection kit, a healthcare professional guides the home collection process via telehealth a two-way video chat. The direct observation helps to ensure the proper technique is used for sample collection. If test results are negative for an active infection, results are released to the patients electronic medical record portal.