The West has had the highest wastewater detections for most of the summer, but levels have now declined a bit according to the CDC's latest update.
Study suggests medical masks may offer similar protecion as N95 respirators, but experts say hold on.
Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.
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Only 1 in 7 US parents say their children will return full time to in-person instruction for the 2020-21 school year.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security today released an ethical framework for how to allocate and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine once it's been approved but is in limited supply.
"Going back to school depends on the local epidemiology, the local transmission, the local profile of schools..."
When underlying medical and other risk conditions are factored out, death rates are similar between blacks and whites.
US nursing homes saw an almost 80% increase in cases since the week of Jun 21.
The head of the WHO warns about "vaccine nationalism" and previews a basic strategy for deploying vaccine.
A review of 18 US and international public health and governmental websites with COVID-19 information for the public—including those of the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—has found that all exceeded the recommended reading level and used sentence structures and technical terminology that would hinder understanding.
The country has now surpassed 170,000 deaths.
For the fourth day in a row, South Korea reports a triple-digit increase in cases.
Variables such as epidemiologic or social factors might be behind the weekly fluctuations in 6 nations.