Health

Georgia health officials have confirmed that a 7-year-old boy without underlying conditions has become the youngest person in the state to die of COVID-19. The African-American boy was infected with the disease after attending a church in Savannah, where he was in contact with two senior members who were also …

The nation’s first public health bureau teaches that it is not immune to the complex effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told staff that some office space it rents in the Atlanta area would be reopened after owners of the Legionella buildings, the …

IN letter arrived at the office of the mayor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, this week that the public health catastrophe around him could creep him break. His state is one of 21 in the U.S. that have been placed by the White House task force in the “red zone,” indicating …

The chief scientist of the Trump administration’s attempt to develop a coronavirus vaccine said in a new interview that he would “immediately” resign if he was forced to expedite a vaccine properly for political reasons. “The data will dictate, the facts dictate,” said Moncef Slaoui, the administration’s chief scientist of …

But this feeling of being frozen in time has been discovered in one small corner of Atlanta. Tyler Perry Studios recently completed its first successful session of what Perry calls “Camp Quarantine” to film season 2 of “Sistas,” the comedy-drama series on BET. It is one of the first TV …