HOUSTON (Reuters) – Florida and four other states posted daily highs for COVID-19 cases on Saturday, highlighting the worsening of the spread of the coronavirus in parts of the southern and western United States, prompting some officials to reverse their plans to reopen. The number of confirmed cases of the …
Read More »United States Records Largest Daily Increase in Coronavirus Cases
The United States recorded the largest single-day increase in new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, as the number of deaths across the country approaches 125,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. Cases rose across the country to at least 39,818 on Thursday, breaking the previous record of 36,426 set on April …
Read More »Tracking contacts for the coronavirus pandemic does not work
Government virus expert Anthony Fauci told reporters at a press conference on Friday that contact search efforts to contain the coronavirus “are not working.” Because it is important: Without a vaccine, contact case tracking is the best tool available to stop the spread of an outbreak. But understaffed public health …
Read More »Airlines that prohibit passengers who refuse to wear masks on flights
Following numerous accounts that the airlines were not applying their own mask policies, Delta, United and American Airlines have announced that they will now ban passengers from refusing to cover their nose and mouth. “Until now, fortunately, there have only been a handful of cases, but we have already banned …
Read More »Coronavirus traces found in March 2019 wastewater sample, Spanish study shows
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish virologists have found traces of the new coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona wastewater collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the Novel Coronavirus 2019 …
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