Health

The role children play in the coronavirus pandemic is the burning question of the summer, as children enjoy their free time while schools work on how to resume school. The Trump administration says the science “is very clear,” but many doctors who specialize in pediatrics and infectious diseases say much …

A Virginia Tech scientist has created a coating that he says can be applied to commonly used items to kill the new coronavirus virus that causes COVID-19. The researchers made the product reddish brown to show consumers where the items have been treated with the coating that inactivates the new …

“We certainly are not winning the battle against the coronavirus,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Friday. “The jurisdictions with the highest probability of the highest number of deaths include: Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, the …

At his press conference Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered counties on the state’s coronavirus watch list to close school campuses this fall, at least to start the school year. The 32 counties on the list, which include Los Angeles and most of southern California, should switch to virtual instruction …

New Yorker Sasha Aickin, 43, has no idea if her vote counted. It took her weeks to get her absentee ballot, which appeared in her mailbox just three days before the June 23 election. It came with two sets of very small print instructions. Neither man, Aickin said, told her …