Health

US military medical teams have been deployed to five California hospitals to aid in a coronavirus war that has imposed on healthcare personnel in the worst affected areas of the state. Doctors, nurses, and other professionals dispatched by the US Air Force will join medical personnel in Lodi, Fresno, Visalia, …

Oregon on Monday reported 277 new cases of the new coronavirus and two new deaths from the disease. Those numbers came the same day that the Oregon Health Authority reported that, in some cases, it has taken more than two weeks for people who have been tested to discover that …

Brazilian Citizenship Minister Onyx Lorenzoni announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19 a few hours before Milton Ribeiro, Minister of Education, revealed that he was also infected. In a series of tweets, Lorenzoni wrote that he was examined after he started showing symptoms last Friday. He said he had …

United States Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Daniel R. Betancourt Jr., via Flickr The first confirmed death of a child from COVID-19 in Minnesota is among the youngest to die from the disease caused by the new coronavirus in the United States, according to officials from the Minnesota Department of …

Click to enlarge UNTIL NEXT TIME At a time when some Americans are concerned about the safety of a COVID-19 vaccine, tens of thousands have already volunteered to help create it. As of Monday, more than 138,600 people had signed up to participate in the tests. “That is why we …