Month: June 2020

A large European study confirms a rare bit of good news about COVID-19: children seem to be mostly spared from the worst of its effects. The paper, published June 25 in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, suggests well fewer than 1% of children who develop COVID-19 will go on to die from it, and … Read more

On April 7, less than a month after reported cases of COVID-19 began to rise in the United States, the rate of new infections reached a peak: an average of 31,630 new cases per day, meaning close to 10 in every 100,000 Americans were testing positive daily. For months, that figure stood as the worst … Read more

In a press briefing on June 25, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said that the current official count of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. may actually be a drastic underestimate. Redfield said the new, much-higher estimate, is based on growing data from antibody testing, which picks … Read more

(AUSTIN, Texas) — Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday halted elective surgeries in Texas’ biggest counties and said the state would “pause” its aggressive re-opening as it deals with a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations that has made it one of the nation’s virus hotspots. The suspension of elective surgeries is designed to protect hospital … Read more

At critical junctures, experts say, state leaders undermined faith in data and misled the public about the severity of the crisis. View original article Contributor: Jeremy Duda

CDC Director Robert Redfield said the estimate is based on blood samples collected from across the country that look for the presence of antibodies to the virus. For every confirmed case of COVID-19, 10 more people had antibodies, he said. View original article Contributor: Lena H. Sun

Conflict, corruption and simultaneous outbreaks of other diseases complicated the response. View original article Contributor: Max Bearak

Ten more cases of West Nile virus have been detected in Miami-Dade County, health officials announced late Thursday. The Florida Department of Health said 10 Miami-Dade residents have contracted the … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor: