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With coronavirus cases escalating in California's two largest cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco leaders take steps to freeze or reverse reopening efforts. And Rose Parade organizers announce the Jan. 1, 2021 event will not take place.
Following the lead of Best Buy on Monday, Walmart and Kroger said customers must wear masks while in their stores. Walmart even complained of a lack of federal rules.
The Republican governor attended the Tulsa Trump rally and has been cavalier about the threat posed by the virus.
Breathing in a little of the virus might lead to no infection, experts say. A number of other studies and reports on masks: front-line workers and hairstylists, Texas lab tests and sterilizing. And then a plea from Trump's former doctor to avoid orders to wear them.
Gov. Brian Kemp says he is encouraging voluntary mask wearing but local rules requiring masks are a “bridge too far.”
The new advice is part of the report from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee to federal agencies that will use them to create the final 2020 to 2025 dietary guidelines. The experts also said that the recommended maximum alcohol consumption for men be lowered from two drinks a day to one.
Gov. Kay Ivey did not roll back reopenings, though. State news on masks is from Montana, Arkansas, Michigan, Alabama and Florida, as well.
The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine emphasized precautions such as surgical masks for teachers and cloth facing covers for children. News also focuses on states' plans and reaction from teachers, parents and college students.
Some patients have been stranded in emergency rooms while others have to be transferred between hospitals as doctors frantically search for open beds. Meanwhile, a new report finds that before this latest surge, many hospitals were able to restore their operations to nearly pre-COVID levels.
A Rockefeller Foundation report suggests “America faces an impending disaster” if the testing system for the virus is not solved. Evidence of its failure abounds.
Initially, medical experts thought Type A blood was a risk factor while Type O was less so. Other public health news on COVID-19 is on a public disconnect, children's health, employees, vacations, mental health, induced comas, staying safe and partying, as well.
The latest pharma research updates: Another hydroxychloroquine evaluation; AbbiVie extends its monopoly on pricey cancer drug; and research on radiation and COVID.
The Trump administration announced this week that hospitals should now report data about coronavirus patients, supplies and bed capacity directly to the Department of Health and Human Services, rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In other health industry news, Georgia revised its request for changes to the insurance marketplace, and doctors and employers team up to offer a new health care payment model.
As researchers move quickly to develop a vaccine, other researchers raise questions about its delivery method and its safe use with pregnant women.
The government-owned drug maker tested its vaccine candidate on human volunteers, including some of its employees, in March. Official approval was given in April. The rush underscores the enormous stakes as China competes with U.S. and British companies for a successful vaccine. The company also announced it has begun Phase III trials on a vaccine.
Republican politicians are finding that the COVID-19 epidemic is undermining support. Mitch McConnell responds with a coronavirus relief plan.
Former President Barack Obama criticizes the government response to the epidemic, while House Democrats push to probe federal government largess to companies with ties to the Trump administration.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Seema Verma sharply disputed the findings. In a response, she said the agency has “deep concerns” with the conclusions, which “are based on unsubstantiated assumptions and incomplete analysis.”
Both children, who were in the custody of Border Patrol agents at the U.S.-Mexico border, died in December 2018.
After a dip in 2018, the number of Americans who died of opioid overdoses rose back up in 2019 to a record 71,000, according to CDC data. Preliminary numbers forecast that 2020 could be even worse.
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