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Ameliorating and increasing access to COVID-19 care and treatment. Executive Order 13997 , officially titled Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19 , was signed on January 21, 2021, and was the thirteenth executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden .
Aarogya Setu (translation from Sanskrit: the bridge to health) is an Indian COVID-19 "contact tracing, syndromic mapping and self-assessment" digital service, primarily a mobile app, developed by the National Informatics Centre under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
The following lists shows the country, list or number of hospitals, and number of hospitals in the country category: Anguilla has one hospital, the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Anguilla ; Aruba has one hospital, the Dr. Horacio E. Oduber Hospital. [2] Bermuda, List of hospitals in Bermuda ; Bonaire has one hospital, the Hospital San Francisco.
A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that the total cost of coronavirus treatment in a hospital could top $20,000 when factoring in out-of-pocket costs and insurance coverage.
[69] 60 Minutes reported, "Hospitals charge uninsured patients two, three, four or more times what an insurance company would pay for the same treatment." [ 70 ] On average, per capita health care spending on behalf of the uninsured is a bit more than half that for the insured.
On April 3, Trump announced that the federal government would use funds from the CARES Act to pay hospitals for treatment of uninsured patients infected with the coronavirus. [30] On April 20, Trump said he would sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration to the U.S. because of the pandemic. [31] [32]
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, [b] [1] also known as the CARES Act, [2] is a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 116th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27, 2020, in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
This registry based, multi-center, multi-country data provide provisional support for the use of ECMO for COVID-19 associated acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. Given that this is a complex technology that can be resource intense, guidelines exist for the use of ECMO during the COVID-19 pandemic. [85] [86] [87]