NEW YORK (AP) – Alcohol-based sanitizers may help spread the coronavirus, but drinking the products turned out to be fatal to four people in two states. Health officials reported this week that 15 adults were poisoned in May and June in Arizona and New Mexico after drinking sanitizer. In addition …
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – Vietnam closed its third-largest city on Tuesday for two weeks after 22 hospital-linked COVID-19 cases were found, the government said. The new cases in the central city of Da Nang are the first confirmed local transmission of the virus in the country in more than three …
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Sophia Garabedian had been dealing with a persistent fever and a painful headache when her parents found her numb in her bed one morning last fall. Doctors finally diagnosed Sudbury, Massachusetts, 5, a resident with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare but severe mosquito-borne virus that causes brain inflammation. Garabedian survived …
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NEW YORK (AP) – Jana Jumpp spends eight hours a day updating a spreadsheet, not for work, but for a recent hobby: discovering how many of Amazon’s 400,000 warehouse workers have become ill with the coronavirus. Amazon won’t give out a number, so Jumpp tracks it alone and shares what …
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A rising tide of new coronavirus cases is flooding emergency rooms in parts of the United States, with some patients being moved to the hallways and nurses working additional shifts to keep up with the increase. Patients struggling to breathe are being placed on ventilators in emergency rooms as intensive …
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