Older Individuals could also be glad to know that Medicare usually will cowl the price of testing for the brand new coronavirus, or COVID-19.

But getting a check is not so simple as going to your native pharmacy or physician's workplace and asking for one.

"Lab providers are lined by Medicare, but when somebody needs a random check out of the blue, it would not be lined if there isn't any medically obligatory cause for it," stated Jack Hoadley, a Medicare professional and analyst with Georgetown College's Well being Coverage Institute.

Nonetheless, Hoadley added, "within the present setting, if a physician is anxious, they will say the check is medically obligatory."

The variety of COVID-19 instances within the U.S. has reached not less than 755, with 26 deaths, in accordance with a tally by Johns Hopkins College. Globally, greater than 114,500 folks have been contaminated, and not less than 4,028 have died. The quick unfold of the virus has wreaked havoc...