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Maine CDC reports 12 new coronavirus cases, no new deaths Updated: 9:24 AM EDT Jul 15, 2020 The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported no new coronavirus-related deaths and 12 new cases on Wednesday.The number of Mainers with COVID-19 who have died remains at 114.The 12 new cases brings the total in Maine to 3,578.A total of 3,079 Mainers have recovered from the virus, which is an increase of 17 over the past 24 hours.Maine also has 385 active cases, which is the lowest numbers since May 11.Slow the spread: CLICK HERE to read the CDC guidelines on coronavirusMAINE CORONAVIRUS DATA: Deaths: 114 Total cases: 3,578 Con...

Right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday said that cannibalism is just a way of adapting and that Americans had better adapt to the coronavirus.  Limbaugh, who previously said the COVID-19 infection was just the common cold, called the response to the pandemic “un-American.” He also compared the situation to the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-19, saying then-President Woodrow Wilson never mentioned it.  “There was no national policy to deal with it,” Limbaugh said. “There was no shutdown, there was just, ‘Hey, go outside, get some fresh air, stand in the sun as long as you can, get some vitamin D, feel better.’” Limbaugh didn’t mention that the pandemic killed 50 million people around the world, including 675,000 Americans, nor did he discuss the advances in science and medici...

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price shares insights into the development of a coronavirus vaccine and what society should do until a vaccine is created. U.S. equity futures are trading higher ahead of the Wednesday Wall Street session following promising news about an experimental vaccine for the coronavirus. The major futures indexes are suggesting a gain of 1.3 percent. GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE Investors were encouraged by news that an experimental COVID-19 vaccine under development by Moderna and the U.S. National Institutes of Health revved up people’s immune systems just as desired. In Europe, London's FTSE is gaining 1.3 percent, Germany's DAX added 1.3 percent and France's CAC rose 1.7 percent. In Asian markets on Wednesday, Tokyo's ...

U.S. coronavirus deaths are projected to reach more than 220,000 by the beginning of November as many states continue to report a surge in new cases and hospitalizations. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington estimates 224,089 fatalities from COVID-19 by Nov. 1, which is roughly 90,000 more than the current number of deaths in the U.S. "We can now see the projected trajectory of the epidemic into the fall, and many states are expected to experience significant increases in cases and deaths in September and October,” said IHME Director Dr. Christopher Murray last Tuesday. CORONAVIRUS LINKED TO DELIRIUM, STROKE AND BRAIN INFLAMMATION, NEW STUDY SAYS Medical workers bring a patient to the Northbridge Health Care Center in Bridgep...

Beijing — A 15-year-old boy has died in western Mongolia of bubonic plague, the country's national news agency reported. The Health Ministry said laboratory tests confirmed the teenager died of plague that he contracted from an infected marmot, according to the Montsame News Agency. A marmot peers out from rocks in a file photo taken in Juneau, Alaska. Becky Bohrer/AP The case prompted the government to impose a quarantine on a portion of the province of Gobi-Altai. Montsame said 15 people who had contact with the boy were isolated. In an unrelated case in neighboring China, a patient who was infected with plague in the northern region of Inner Mongolia is improving, according to Ch...