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Los Angeles Apparel factory ordered closed after over 300 coronavirus cases and 4 deaths (CNN) A garment manufacturer in downtown Los Angeles with over 300 confirmed coronavirus cases among employees has been ordered closed after an investigation into the deaths of four workers, county health officials said Friday. The Los Angeles ...
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Johns Hopkins' dashboard: The people behind the pandemic's most visited site (CNN) If the year 2020 is good for anything, it's the lesson that during a crisis, anyone who builds a better mousetrap will find the world beating a path to his door. A humble team at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland reminded the world of late poet Ralph ...
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Corornavirus In Colorado: New Challenges Make Contact Tracing More Essential DENVER (CBS4) – Local and state health officials agree that contact tracing is more important than ever in the fight against the coronavirus, but not all agencies are able to quickly reach patients who test positive to help them stop the spread. A change in ...
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Daily Virus Death Toll Rises in Some States The daily number of deaths from the coronavirus has risen recently in some of the nation's most populous states, leaving behind grieving families and signaling a possible end to months of declining death totals nationally. In Texas, officials announced 119 ...
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How coronavirus affects the entire body (CNN) Coronavirus damages not only the lungs, but the kidneys, liver, heart, brain and nervous system, skin and gastrointestinal tract, doctors said Friday in a review of reports about Covid-19 patients. The team at the Columbia University Irving Medical ...
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Why We Still Don't Know Enough About Covid-19 and Pregnancy At the end of April, Denise J. Jamieson, M.D., a member of the Covid-19 task force at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and chairwoman of gynecology and obstetrics at the Emory University School of Medicine, noted in an email that it ...
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Possible In Utero SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The cases of two women with COVID-19 who delivered babies who tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus suggest the possibility of in utero ...
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More evidence emerges that a TB vaccine might help fight coronavirus (CNN) More research emerged this week in potential support of using the tuberculosis vaccine Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) as a tool in the fight against coronavirus. Researchers found that countries where many people have been given the vaccine have ...
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Heartburn medication tied to higher COVID-19 risk — but don't panic Taking a common form of heartburn medication may moderately raise the risk of contracting COVID-19, according to a new study. Based on an online survey of more than 86,600 people, more than 3,300 of whom caught COVID-19, the results suggest that ...
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Delirium Can Strike Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Intense breathing problems may be the most widely reported feature of COVID-19, but new research warns that coronavirus can also take aim at the brain. Infection can trigger serious nerve damage, stroke, ...
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UK lifts travel restrictions for dozens of countries, but US arrivals still require 14-day self isolation The British government rolled back pandemic travel restrictions Friday on arrivals from 75 countries and British overseas territories — but visitors from the United States will still be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days. Support our journalism. Subscribe today.
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Pandemic exposes scientific rift over proving when germs are airborne CHICAGO (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a clash among medical experts over disease transmission that stretches back nearly a century - to the very origins of germ theory. FILE PHOTO: A French doctor, wearing a protective suit and a ...
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CDC: Covid-19 death toll is twice as high among people of color under age 65 as for white Americans The coronavirus proved substantially deadlier to people of color under the age of 65 than to their white counterparts in the early days of the pandemic, an in-depth analysis released Friday found. The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
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Fact Check: No, schools will not require a COVID-19 vaccine, with RFID chip, for students Claim: Schools will require a deadly COVID-19 vaccine for returning students, and those vaccines will contain RFID chips. It's been four months since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. As scientists around the world race to ...
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Children Rarely Transmit SARS-CoV-2 Within Households Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Children appear less likely than adults to be the first cases of COVID-19 within a household, based on data from families of 39 children younger than 16 ...
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Coronavirus: Why kids aren't the germbags, and grownups are As schools contemplate reopening amid rising COVID-19 cases, an awkward truth is emerging: We're the problem, not our kids. For months, we've kept children carefully isolated, pleading with them to behave, wear masks, wipe their boogers and not hug ...
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Covid-19 symptoms: What we know now and what to do It may feel like years, but the world has only been battling the deadly novel coronavirus for months. As scientists feverishly work around the clock to unravel the mysteries of this deadly invader, they have gained interesting insights into the virus and the ...
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Coronavirus: Asymptomatic cases detected in London NHS staff The case for routinely testing NHS staff is "overwhelming", leading cancer scientist at the Crick Institute Dr Charles Swanton has said. His team identified NHS staff testing positive at the peak of the pandemic who were "completely asymptomatic". But the study ...
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Terrifying Delirium Can Strike Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Intense breathing problems may be the most widely reported feature of COVID-19, but new research warns that coronavirus can also take aim at the brain. Infection ...
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Coronavirus News Roundup, July 4-July 9 The items below are highlights from the free newsletter, "Smart, useful, science stuff about COVID-19." To receive newsletter issues daily in your inbox, sign up here. Please consider a monthly contribution to support this newsletter. The World Health ...
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Cases of broken heart syndrome increase amid pandemic stress Stress from the coronavirus pandemic may be breaking people's hearts. Cardiologists in Ohio have found that the number of patients experiencing Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or broken heart syndrome, increased four-to-five fold during the coronavirus ...
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US Bets on Untested Company to Deliver COVID-19 Vaccine When precious vats of COVID-19 vaccine are finally ready, jabbing the lifesaving solution into the arms of Americans will require hundreds of millions of injections. As part of its strategy to administer the vaccine as quickly as possible, the Trump administration ...
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What a Lack of COVID-19 Testing Means for Children and Reopening Schools Many testing sites across the country have put limits on when children should be tested for COVID-19. The restrictions began when testing supplies were low after the beginning of the pandemic. Experts say the lack of testing among children has implications ...
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Colorado Conducts Record 11384 Coronavirus Tests Thursday DENVER (CBS4) – Colorado health officials administered 11,384 COVID-19 tests on Thursday. It's the largest number of tests reported in one day since the pandemic started. (credit: CBS). A total of 36,191 people have tested positive for the virus in Colorado ...
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LA County reports more than 2600 new coronavirus cases and 51 deaths The coronavirus continues to spread in L.A. County as officials Friday confirmed 51 more deaths related to COVID-19 and 2,667 additional cases. There are 1,995 people hospitalized with the novel coronavirus in the county, with 26% in intensive care and ...
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COVID-19 cases top 1000 in Orange County for the fifth straight day For the fifth day in a row, Orange County climbed by another thousand new COVID-19 cases, according to new numbers reported on Friday by the Orange County Health Care Agency. The county health agency reported 1,133 new cases, bringing the ...
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LA Latinos Twice As Likely To Be Infected With Coronavirus LOS ANGELES, CA — Latinos in Los Angeles County are more than twice as likely to become infected with the coronavirus than white people, and infections in impoverished communities far outpace higher-income neighborhoods, health officials confirmed.
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Expert: Face Masks Reduce Wearer's COVID Infection Risk by 65% Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Wearing a facial covering not only curbs the spread of the coronavirus but reduces a mask wearer's risk of catching the virus by 65%, said Dean ...
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Face Masks Reduce COVID Infection Risk by 65% July 10, 2020 -- Wearing a facial covering not only curbs the spread of the coronavirus but reduces a mask wearer's risk of catching the virus by 65%, said Dean Blumberg, MD, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children's Hospital. Blumberg ...
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Health Highlights: July 10, 2020 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Stay-at-Home Tied to Sharp Decline in Football Injuries for Kids: Study. U.S. emergency room visits by children with sports and recreation-related ...
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Latinos now twice as likely as whites to get coronavirus in LA County Latino residents of Los Angeles County are contracting the coronavirus at a much faster pace than other racial and ethnic groups, and are twice as likely to have contracted the virus than white residents. "Latinx people are more than twice as likely as people ...
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Physicians give first comprehensive review of COVID-19's effects outside the lung After only a few days caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients at the start of the outbreak in New York City, Aakriti Gupta, MD, realized that this was much more than a respiratory disease. "I was on the front lines right from the beginning. I observed that patients ...
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CDC data reveal another racial disparity for COVID-19 victims — age at death Here's another way COVID-19 isn't playing fair when it comes to race: It claims the lives of Black and Latino Americans earlier than whites. Among a group of more than 10,000 people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. in the early months of the outbreak, the ...
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Most Survivors of Severe COVID-19 Report Symptoms Many Weeks After 'Recovery' By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Even a month after hospital discharge and "recovery," a majority of patients who had survived severe COVID-19 were still dealing with fatigue, shortness of breath ...
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Health Officials Report 15 More Coronavirus Deaths, 637 Cases SEATTLE, WA — State health officials confirmed 15 new deaths linked to COVID-19 in Washington and 637 new confirmed cases of the disease Friday, capping off a week that saw some of the highest daily case counts yet. Washington is hardly alone in ...
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Mosquitoes Test Positive For West Nile Virus In WilCo Park WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TX — A sample of mosquitoes collected from a trap near the Southwest Williamson County Regional Park has tested positive for West Nile Virus, county officials confirmed Friday. The testing at the park in an area of FM 1431 and CR ...
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Florida adds 10360 coronavirus cases for 3rd-highest daily increase, and 95 new deaths We have lifted the paywall on this story. To support essential reporting, please consider becoming a subscriber. COVID-19 daily new cases in Florida. Through Sat, July 11, 2020. Created with Raphaël 2.1.2 Apr May Jun Jul. 10,000. X. 2,000. 4,000. 6,000.
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UC Irvine awarded $14.4 million Alzheimer's research grant The National Institutes of Health has awarded $14.4 million to the UCI MIND institute at UC Irvine to continue its crucial work in the study of Alzheimer's disease, for which there remains no cure or prevention. UCI MIND, formally known as the Institute for ...
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Nearly 1 in 4 US teachers at greater risk of becoming seriously ill if infected with coronavirus About one in four teachers in the U.S. are at greater risk of becoming seriously ill if they get infected with the new coronavirus, according to a report released Friday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The foundation, a nonpartisan organization that focuses on ...
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Eye-tracking tests may help diagnose Alzheimer's disease Q: I've heard there's finally a test for Alzheimer's disease, and that it has to do with your eyes. What is it, and how does it work? A: Although researchers continue their search for a single and definitive diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease, they haven't ...
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WHO official cites AIDS as guide to addressing coronavirus pandemic (Reuters) - Healthcare systems worldwide need to upgrade to control disease transmission and cope with large numbers of sick people during the coronavirus pandemic as well as future outbreaks, the head of the World Health Organization's emergencies ...
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America needs to reduce soaring overdoses. A secret supervised injection site may show us how. In a location kept secret from the public for the past five years, people have injected themselves with drugs more than 10,000 times without dying from an overdose, researchers revealed this week. The findings come amid an opioid epidemic that has killed ...
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Fat cell hormone boosts potential of stem cell therapy Osaka, Japan - Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have the potential to differentiate into a range of different cell types, including bone, fat, and muscle cells. But it's their ability to stimulate the repair of damaged tissue that has captured the interest of researchers ...
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Coronavirus Survivor, 32, Leaves Hospital After 93 Days and Telling Doctor 'Make Sure I Wake Up' Michael Orantes is dad to 2-year-old daughter Elizabeth. By Ashley Boucher. July 10, 2020 09:12 PM. Advertisement. FB Tweet More. Pinterest Email Send Text Message Print. Michael Orantes leaving the hospital. Facebook. After nearly 100 days in the ...
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University of Houston researches create heated air filter that can kill coronavirus 'instantly' Researchers at the University of Houston claimed to have designed a special air filter that can trap the novel coronavirus and blast it with heat to kill the disease on contact. Dr. Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center of Superconductivity at UH, is the brains ...
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Are pools and lakes safe during the COVID pandemic? What we know Check your state's restrictions before going to the lake or beach. Kent German/CNET. For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. Is it safe to invite people over for a pool party, or go to the beach or ...
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Blacks Underrepresented in Cancer Drug Trials: Study FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. government-funded clinical trials for new cancer treatments have more Black participants than those run by drug companies, but Blacks are still underrepresented in cancer studies, researchers say. The SWOG ...
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How deadly is COVID-19? A biostatistician explores the question (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ron Fricker, Virginia Tech. (THE CONVERSATION) The latest statistics, as of July 10, show COVID-19-related deaths in U.S. are just under ...
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COVID-19 updates: Statewide hospitalizations set daily record This story will continuously be updated. Hospitalizations related to COVID-19 in Texas surpassed 10,000 for the first time Friday with 10,002 patients. Of those hospitalizations, 1,872 are in the DFW hospital region. Thursday marked the deadliest day for the ...
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Mutation in dominant Arizona coronavirus strain may make it more infectious Over 90 percent of novel coronavirus samples from Arizona in a recent genetic analysis have a mutation that researchers hypothesize makes the virus more infectious. So far, researchers have analyzed more than 1,400 samples of the virus from patients with ...
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