DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran shuts down a newspaper on Monday after quoting a former member of the national coronavirus task force and saying the country’s toll of the epidemic could be 20 times higher than official figures, state news agency IRNA reported. PHILO PHOTO: A girl walks into a bazaar …
Read More »Global coronavirus cases hit 20 million: Reuters tally
(Reuters) – Global coronavirus cases hit more than 20 million on Monday, according to a Reuters census, with the United States, Brazil and India accounting for more than half of all known infections. FILE PHOTO: A health care worker checks the temperature and pulse of a resident during a coronavirus …
Read More »97,000 children tested positive for the coronavirus in just two weeks in July
Children can actually get the coronavirus. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP and the Children’s Hospital Association) publicly analyzed reported data on children and COVID-19 from 49 states, Puerto Rico and Guam, as well as New York City and Washington, DC. Their report found that from July 30, at least …
Read More »The most common way to identify coronavirus is practically useless for one large group of people – BGR
Researchers monitoring nearly 100 men who tested positive for COVID-19 show that body temperature does not appear to be a reliable way to detect coronavirus infection. Of 84 men between the ages of 18 and 25 had only a few fevers, and even then the fever lasted only a very …
Read More »Wisconsin passes 1 million negative COVID-19 tests
MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) – Wisconsin added 507 new coronavirus patients to its pandemic response, while other trends showed improvement, including a milestone for negative COVID-19 test results in the state Department of Health Services report Monday. The state received 8,167 test results in the past 24-hour period, continuing with a …
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