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CLEVELAND – As the Indians and the rest of the Major League Baseball prepare to begin a condensed season after a freeze due to the coronavirus pandemic, Cleveland Indians president Chris Antonetti confirmed that some Indians players tested positive for COVID-19, but said that all cases were isolated. Antonetti did …

In Starr County, Texas, the pandemic has become a “before and after” story, before the state took over, and after it did. The large but sparsely populated county on the Texas-Mexico border had managed to keep the coronavirus contained in the first few months by imposing 14-day quarantine restrictions on …

New disease models released today by the Oregon Health Authority warn that daily COVID-19 infections could increase 20-fold in mid-July if trends continue. The June 25 report from the Institute of Disease Modeling projects that, in the worst case, Oregon could see up to 4,850 daily cases of COVID before …

Vice President Mike Pence at a meeting of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in DC on Friday. Joshua Roberts / Getty Images On Friday, the White House coronavirus task force held its first public session in nearly two months. The reason for the comeback is the rapid increase in …

Scientists have discovered that the virus behind Covid-19 causes infected cells to develop protruding, fibrous branches, a very unusual structure that allows the virus to attack multiple cells at once. Researchers led by the University of California, San Francisco have published the first close-up images of the spaghetti-like tentacles taken …