Health

San Luis Obispo County reports that a County 12 resident who tested positive for COVID-19 has died. Health officials say the patient was 80 years old and lived at the Vineyard Hills Health Center, where there was a COVID-19 outbreak among residents and staff. The skilled nursing facility in Templeton …

A study published Wednesday associates the widespread closure of schools in the spring with fewer cases of COVID-19 and deaths in the following days and weeks. School closings may have been associated with 1.37 million fewer COVID-19 cases over a 26-day period and 40,600 fewer deaths over a 16-day period, …

Iraqi political life may seem like a gang war to strangers, but most of the day its turbulent surface hides a calm and joyous looting business. In each government ministry, the highest loot is allocated by unwritten agreement to one faction or another. Sadrists have the Ministry of Health, the …

Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer announced Wednesday that the region had registered 4,825 new coronavirus infections. That’s a record number of new cases. The previous high was 4,592 on July 16. However, Ferrer warned, “more than 2,000 of those cases stem from an accumulation of laboratory reports.” …

(Reuters) – The rise in US coronavirus cases and restrictions aimed at containing it have begun to weigh on the economic recovery, the head of the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday, signaling an apparent setback by consumers and a slowdown in the rehire of laid off workers, particularly for small …