Health

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – The Grand Traverse County Health Department announced Wednesday that 8 companies in Traverse City are now marked as potential COVID-19 exposure sites. A contact search effort that began outside the county followed the path of a group of clients who later tested positive for the virus: …

FOX Business’s Kristina Partsinevelos talks about supermarket prices due to the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus cannot be contracted from food or food packaging, the federal government said Wednesday in an effort to ease concerns about the role food processors play in possible transmission of the disease. “There is no evidence …

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a dramatic decline in mortgage rates. But that doesn’t mean that now is a good time to refinance for everyone. Last week, Freddie Mac FMCC, -0.94% It reported that mortgage rates hit a new record low for the fourth time this year, with the …

(Updates with new death forecast) By Jonathan Allen and Peter Szekely June 24 (Reuters) – The University of Washington on Wednesday forecast nearly 180,000 deaths in the United States. USA By COVID-19 by October 1, as the cases showed new signs of increase and the governors of three northeastern states …

By CARLA K. JOHNSON and TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press S T. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Coronavirus cases are increasing rapidly among young adults in several states where bars, shops, and restaurants have reopened, a disturbing generational shift that not only puts them in greater danger than many believe, but represents an …