Health

After the worst week for new broadcasts since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Los Angeles County reported 2,770 additional positive cases and 37 deaths Saturday. © (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Drivers receive COVID-19 test kits at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles on …

(Newser) – Jana Jumpp spends eight hours a day updating a spreadsheet, not for work, but for a recent hobby: Finding out how many of Amazon’s 400,000 warehouse workers have become ill with the coronavirus, the AP reports. Amazon won’t give out a number, so Jumpp tracks it alone and …

“And I disagree with the claim that if everyone wears a mask, it all goes away,” the president told Fox News presenter Chris Wallace in the interview, undermining messages from his own government experts. Several months after a global pandemic that has infected 3.7 million Americans and killed more than …

Oregon health officials reported 436 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, a count approaching a record set just days earlier. The Oregon Health Authority also reported three deaths, bringing the number of COVID-19 deaths in the state to 260. Cases have increased when the state began reopening business and public …

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – After a one-day respite, COVID-19 cases in the Australian state of Victoria have re-emerged, prompting a move to make the masks mandatory in the Melbourne metropolitan area and the nearby Mitchell county. Health officials on Sunday registered 363 new cases in the last 24 hours. Two …