Wilma Thomas, right, registered nurse, and Ricky Vargas, medical assistant, process 50 to 65 patients per day for COVID-19 testing at AltaMed Health Services in Anaheim on Thursday, July 9, 2020. Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The surge in US coronavirus cases has slowed laboratories …
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Dr. David Callender, CEO of the Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, told CNBC on Friday that his hospitals continue to be adequately equipped despite the growing coronavirus outbreak in Texas. “Actually, we still believe that we have a great ability to meet the demand for Covid, as well as …
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There are only a handful of proven interventions to slow the spread of the coronavirus. One of them is locating contacts and “it’s not going well,” White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday. Contact tracing occurs when trained personnel contact infected people to investigate where they might have …
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A Sun Tran employee offers free masks to passengers to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the bus station in downtown Tucson, Arizona, USA. USA, June 20, 2020. Cheney Orr | Reuters The United States broke its record for the highest coronavirus cases recorded in a single day, …
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