Health

A Florida couple was jailed, accused of violating a mandatory quarantine order after they tested positive for the coronavirus, local officials said Thursday. José Antonio Freire Interian, 24, and Yohana Anahi Gonzalez, 27, were arrested Wednesday night at their Key West apartment and taken to the Stock Island Detention Center, …

Gov. Kate Brown ordered rural Oregon County with the worst COVID-19 outbreak to stay home again. The renewed stay-at-home order takes effect in Umatilla County on July 31 at noon. It is the first time that the Governor has withdrawn a county from the reopening. “After weeks of trying other …

Vaccines have transformed the world, saving hundreds of millions of lives. They are also by far our best hope for stopping the Covid-19 pandemic. Our other options to stop the disease are to stay apart, which hurts our economy and society, or to build a “collective immunity” through natural infection, …

Twenty percent of Major League Baseball teams have been forced to postpone games on Friday night due to positive tests for coronavirus. The sport has returned for just over a week and Friday’s games between the Washington Nationals and the Miami Marlins, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Toronto Blue Jays …

As the coronavirus emerges again in San Francisco, city officials are preparing for the worst possible outcome: massive infections from the fall, potentially overloading the city’s health care system and a sharp rise in the death toll in the city. In a virtual press conference on Thursday, Dr. Grant Colfax …