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Photo credit: Jackyenjoyphotography – Getty Images Of men health Obesity has been linked to an increased risk of becoming seriously ill from COVID-19 since the beginning of the coronavirus novel pandemic. Now experts say obesity could increase your chances of COVID-19 by almost 50 percent, according to an analysis published …

Lyon County Public Health is asking people who patrolled an Emporia bar in the city center earlier this week to take self-quarantine after one person who participated decided to have coronavirus. Public Health says a patron of Town Royal, 405 Commercial, tested positive Thursday. The person was apparently at the …

Michael and Darlene Taylor sort through a freezer damaged by Hurricane Laura August 27, 2020 in Grand Lake, Louisiana. Hurricane Laura came ashore and brought rain and strong winds to the southeast of the state, reaching wind speeds of 150 km / h and a storm surge of 9-12 meters. …

As of Friday morning, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation model at the University of Washington is projecting that 317,312 people could die from the disease – marking an increase of about 8,000 deaths from an earlier estimate the model projected one week ago . Since January, U.S. health …

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan – Hamid Agha’s family was sleeping outside when the rain began. He had previously witnessed rain in his two years living in Charikar, a city along the foothills of the Hindu Kush in northern Afghanistan, and thought badly of it. Yet when the 13-year-old family woke up on …