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Covid-19
Source: Politico President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will leave Walter Reed National...
Source: The Hill White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive for COVID-19, she said...
Source: NBC News President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, he announced on Twitter early Friday. Hope Hicks, one of the president’s closest senior advisers, tested positive for the virus Thursday, making her the highest-profile member of the administration to have contracted the virus who is in frequent contact with Trump and other top officials. Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday that he and the first lady, 50, were tested once Hicks tested positive, and he later tweeted that they were starting the “Quarantine process.” Vice President Mike Pence tweeted that he and his wife, Karen, “Send our love and prayers” to Trump and the first lady. One of the president’s personal valets, who works in the West Wing serving him his meals, among other duties, tested positive in May. While it is unknown where or when Trump contracted the illness, Trump has repeatedly expressed a lack of concern about getting sick from holding rallies or other events. Trump is not the only world leader to have tested positive for the coronavirus. Full Story @ NBC...
Source: UPI FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday warned that Chinese hackers have been persistently...
Source: Politico The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says that close contacts of...
Source: The Hill Israel will return to a full lockdown on Friday in an effort...
Source: The Hill Anthony Fauci on Friday said he disagrees with President Trump that the country has rounded...
Source: UPI Up to 15% of college athletes experience heart inflammation after battling COVID-19, a...
Source: UPI New COVID-19 cases in the United States declined to about 35,000 on Sunday...
Source: NBC News Coronavirus cases are continuing to climb at the University of Alabama, with...
Source: Reuters The global death toll from the coronavirus approached 800,000 on Saturday, according to...
Source: UPI There were more than 1,500 COVID-19 deaths in the United States on Wednesday,...
Source: NPR The sheriff in a central Florida COVID-19 hot spot has issued a directive...
Source: Reuters The United States set a record for coronavirus cases on Saturday, with more...
Source: The Hill Dr. Deborah Birx said Sunday that the COVID-19 outbreak is not under...
Source: NBC News Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary for health who coordinates the administration’s coronavirus...
Source: Reuters The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on...
Source: NBC News Herman Cain, a 74-year-old businessman who ran unsuccessfully for president in the...
Source: Associated Press Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread...
Source: Wall Street Journal A comparison of 26 studies that estimate the disease’s infection fatality rate* found varying results but pinpointed an overall rate of around 6.8 deaths per 1,000 infections. The infection fatality rate measures deaths out of total estimated infections as opposed to confirmed cases. “It’s not just what the infection-fatality rate is. It’s also how contagious the disease is, and Covid is very contagious,” said Eric Toner, an emergency medicine physician and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, who studies health-care preparedness for epidemics and infectious diseases. Health authorities and researchers have been working to gauge the death rate from the coronavirus to better understand the risk of the disease, estimate how many people might die and respond with the necessary public-health measures. “The hard bit really is to work out how many people have been infected,” said Lucy Okell, who alongside colleagues at Imperial College London estimated the infection-fatality rate in China at 0.66% in a paper published in March. To come up with an estimate for the fatality rate, some researchers take the known cases and numbers of deaths, then estimate the proportion missed or asymptomatic cases. An analysis of 26 different studies estimating the infection-fatality rate in different parts of the globe found an aggregate estimate of about 0.68%, with a range of 0.53% to 0.82%, according to a report posted in July on the preprint server medRxiv, which hasn’t yet been reviewed by other researchers. Researchers in the U.S. and Switzerland examined data from the Swiss city of Geneva to calculate fatality rates for different age groups. Better treatment in the future could push the rate down, but a situation in which a hospital system is overwhelmed can drive the rate up, said Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist at the University of Wollongong who co-wrote the July medRxiv paper. Full Story...
Source: UPI According to the poll, three-quarters of teachers from kindergarten through high school said they’re either “Very” or “Moderately” concerned about COVID-19 exposure in the classroom. The study found that teachers are far more concerned about coronavirus exposure than workers in other fields. Teachers have been working remotely since schools were closed in the spring. Gallup surveyed nearly 500 teachers and 2,600 non-education workers for the poll, which has a margin of error of between 4 and 9 points. Full Story @ UPI
Source: Reuters The United States on Thursday recorded more than 1,100 deaths from COVID-19, marking...
Source: The Hill Senate Republicans are preparing to offer a five-year shield from coronavirus lawsuits...
Source: NBC News Hackers from Russia’s intelligence services have attempted to steal information related to...
Source: Palm Beach Post Numbers are going in the wrong direction for Florida. On...
Source: NBC News America does not need another large-scale shutdown to contain the surging coronavirus...
Source: NBC News President Donald Trump on Saturday wore a mask in a public setting...
Source: Reuters The United States reported more than 55,000 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the...
Source: Reuters The number of Americans who died from COVID-19 in March through May was...
Source: MedicalXpress A top US health expert warned Congress on Tuesday that new coronavirus...
Source: UPI COVID-19 has killed nearly 130,000 people in the United States since the start of...
Source: NPR The coronavirus pandemic reached a new milestone on Sunday, with confirmed deaths surpassing...
Source: Reuters Five states hit record daily highs for coronavirus cases on Saturday, and Vice...
Source: Axios Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar warned on CNN’s “State of...
Source: NBC News More than a million Americans who had died received COVID-19 stimulus payments totaling $1.4 billion,...
Source: US News and World Report THE World Health Organization on Friday said the...
Source: Chicago Tribune Researchers say they have the first evidence that a drug can...
Source: Reuters New coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in record numbers swept through more U.S. states,...
Source: Barrons The U.S. may need another lockdown if coronavirus cases rise “Dramatically,” the...
Source: Reuters A team of Polish scientists has designed a remote-controlled ventilator they hope will...
Source: Stat News The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on Thursday...
Source: NPR In a study to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine,...
Source: Reuters The White House on Sunday said it was restricting travel from Brazil to...
Source: Reuters The United States has secured almost a third of the first one billion...
Source: Phys.org As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens public health around the world, misinformation regarding...
Source: NPR In a historic collapse, retail spending in the U.S. nosedived again last month,...
Source: CBS News President Trump says he would “Rapidly” mobilize the U.S. military to...
Source: Associated Press U.S. health officials on Thursday released some of their long-delayed guidance that...
Source: NBC News Paul Manafort, the imprisoned former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, was...