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[WGN NEWS, GETTY IMAGES] Health officials announced Friday an addition 2,208 new cases of coronavirus in Illinois. The Illinois Department of Public Health also reports 24 additional deaths. Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 215,929 cases, including 7,857 deaths, since the pandemic began. Within the past 24 hours, state labs […]
[Forbes, Getty Images] Three new scientific studies published this month show that the COVID-19 virus can spread in more ways than we once knew. Research from various parts of the world considered three separate factors in each study: low humidity, public restrooms and airborne dust. The implications from all three […]
MUMBAI (Reuters) – At least one in four people in India may have been infected with the coronavirus – a much higher number than official government figures suggest, the head of leading private laboratory says. Dr. A. Velumani said an analysis of 270,000 antibody tests conducted by his company Thyrocare across […]
[CNN] It was ground zero in the coronavirus pandemic and underwent the world’s first — and arguably strictest — lockdown. Now, the central Chinese city of Wuhan appears to have moved on from the virus, as thousands of revelers gathered in an open air water park for an electronic music festival — without any masks or […]
[CNN] While anti-vaxxers flood social media with lies about the upcoming coronavirus vaccine — that it contains monkey brains, that it’s a CIA plot to take over the world — the government’s multi-billion-dollar vaccine effort has yet to come up with a public education campaign to counteract that propaganda. “We […]
[U.S. News] Consumers finally saw prices fall last month after months of significant increases. The price of groceries fell in July for the first time since soaring this spring during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic when demand spiked amid lockdown orders and the closure of restaurants. The price […]
[New York Post, AP] Connecticut on Monday issued its first $1,000 fines to two residents who failed to fill out health forms required upon returning home from states with high coronavirus infection rates. The residents who were fined traveled back to Connecticut from Louisiana and Florida several weeks ago, Gov. […]
[Fox News, iStock] Valves make masks a bit more breathable but ‘don’t do anything in terms of filtering’ Does your face mask have vents or valves? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated its guidelines advising Americans to avoid such face masks, as they aren’t as effective […]
[CNN] The US topped 5 million cases of coronavirus early Sunday — and as experts have highlighted before, the true number of infections could be many times higher. The number means the country holds about a quarter of global cases of the virus and also tops the list with the most reported deaths in the world. Of […]
[CNBC] KEY POINTS: The United States has the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the world with more than 5 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University data. U.S. health officials fear the virus may be widely circulating in parts of the Midwest now. California and Florida have both reported more than […]