On Thursday, the United States broke its record for most new coronavirus cases reported in one day, as concerns about a second wave of the pandemic continue to rise. As numbers rise in the south, 40,401 new cases were reported Thursday, according to a Johns Hopkins database, beating the previous …
Read More »CDC Report Credits University of Texas Officials for Slowing the COVID-19 Outbreak Related to the Spring Break Trip in Mexico
AUSTIN, Texas – A new CDC report shows that tracking contacts, including asymptomatic people, is vital in controlling future COVID-19 outbreaks, and the agency used a spring break trip to Mexico as an example. Sixty University of Texas spring breaks that traveled to the resort town of Cabo San Lucas …
Read More »US health officials believe 20 million Americans have had COVID-19, 10 times as many as 2.3 million confirmed cases.
WASHINGTON – US officials believe that up to 20 million Americans have contracted the coronavirus, suggesting that millions had the virus and never knew it. That’s almost 10 times more infections than the 2.3 million cases that have been confirmed, and it occurs when the Trump administration works to allay …
Read More »CDC: Coronavirus May Have Infected 10 Times More Americans Than Known
Nearly 25 million Americans may have contracted the coronavirus, ten times more than the number of confirmed cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. In a briefing with journalists on Thursday, CDC Director Robert Redfield said that surveys of blood samples taken from across the country suggest …
Read More »Trump ‘does not withdraw support’ from COVID-19 test sites, official says
The Trump administration is not abandoning federally funded coronavirus testing sites, the administration’s test czar COVID-19 said Wednesday. Admiral Brett Giroir, deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said that although the government will stop directly funding 13 community-based coronavirus testing sites, the number of tests will …
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