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As the world nears the 19 million COVID-19-case milestone, stubbornly brisk activity continues.
"All efforts and attacks should be directed against the virus," the authors of a commentary write.
A small single-center case series published today in Pediatrics describes only mild illness in seven hospitalized infants in New York City with COVID-19 and fever, with none requiring supplemental oxygen, mechanical ventilation, or intensive care.
Many states don't offer the policies and flexibility voters will need to avoid COVID-19.
A WHO surge team deployment comes after discussions with South Africa's health ministry.
Three Republican and 4 Democratic governors announce an interstate compact for rapid tests.
Testing confirmed 1 more Ebola case in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, raising the total to 74, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
One more death was reported, raising the fatality count to 32, though it's unclear if it involved the latest confirmed patient.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today awarded $19 million for a new diagnostic test that can detect gonorrhea in under 30 minutes—and determine if the infection is susceptible to a single-dose antibiotic. The test is made by Visby Medical, Inc.
The workers feel invisible and face an uneven flow of information, supplies, and PPE.
More than a quarter of nations in the Americas have suspended routine vaccinations.
The mysterious polio-like illness seems to cause outbreaks in the US every 2 years.
Despite a lower 7-day average in cases, school reopening is still a huge issue, especially in hot spots.
Live virus and evidence of viral replication were rarely detectable beyond 8 days after symptom onset.
COVID-19 genetic material—not necessarily live virus—was found on surfaces in a 1-meter (3.3-foot) diameter circle where asymptomatic patients who had passed coronavirus triage had eye exams, according to a small study published yesterday in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Frontline healthcare workers who had PPE were still at 3 times the risk of infection.
HHS says more than 59 million COVID-19 tests have been completed in the US.
It took only 4 days for the world's COVID-19 total to jump from 17 million to 18 million.
Telemedicine is booming amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but many older US adults—particularly those who are low-income, male, black or Hispanic, older than 65 years, less educated, living in rural areas, or have disabilities or poor health—are unable to access remote services, cutting them off from healthcare.
Ebola has sickened one more person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, upping the total to 73 cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said today on Twitter.
No new deaths were reported, keeping the fatality count at 31.
Modeling study suggests every-other-day testing strategy.
