NASA has invented a new portable device to help you avoid touching your face, something public health experts have warned about since the COVID-19 outbreak began. What’s going on: NASA has developed a new technology called PULSE, which alerts users when they are about to touch their faces, possibly transmitting …
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A pandemic of the new coronavirus has killed more than 504,000 people worldwide. More than 10.2 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The actual numbers …
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Screenshot: JAMA / YouTube Network This is just the “start” of a dangerous new wave of coronavirus cases that could become more deadly as it reaches a larger population in the US., according to Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC’s senior deputy director. The United States has identified at least 2.59 million …
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Six months since the new coronavirus outbreakThe pandemic is still far from over, the World Health Organization said Monday, warning that “the worst is yet to come.” Reaching the half-year milestone just like the the death toll exceeded 500,000 and the number of confirmed infections exceeded 10 million, the WHO …
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Alameda County Health Doctor Dr. Erica Pan, a key figure in the county’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, is leaving that position for a position with the state health department. Pan has been named a California state epidemiologist and deputy director of the California Department of Public Health’s Center for …
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