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More young people infected with COVID-19 are being hospitalized at Sarasota Memorial Hospital This content is being provided for free as a public service to our readers during the coronavirus outbreak. Sign up for our daily or breaking newsletters to stay informed. If local news is important to you, consider becoming a digital subscriber to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.*** SARASOTA — More young people are being infected with the coronavirus, and even though they’re less likely to die from it, the increasing younger demographic is partly responsible for Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s record-breaking COVID-19 hospitalizations, hospital officials said Tuesday. Sarasota Memorial is running out of lifesaving treatments for those patients because of nationwide shortages. There ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — It was meant to be a last line of defense to protect the most vulnerable as the coronavirus spread across the United States: Montana officials offered free testing in May for staff and residents at assisted living and long-term care facilities. But not all of them followed through, according to state data, including a facility in Billings, Montana’s largest city, that cares for people with dementia and other memory problems. The virus has infected almost every resident and killed eight, accounting for almost a quarter of Montana’s 34 confirmed deaths. Thirty-six employees also have tested positive at the facility where 59 people lived before the deaths began. While Montana’s rates of confirmed infections and deaths are much lower than other parts of the countr...

Researchers on Tuesday reported strong evidence that the coronavirus can be transmitted from a pregnant woman to a fetus. A baby born in a Paris hospital in March to a mother with Covid-19 tested positive for the virus and developed symptoms of inflammation in his brain, said Dr. Daniele De Luca, who led the research team and is chief of the division of pediatrics and neonatal critical care at Paris-Saclay University Hospitals. The baby, now more than 3 months old, recovered without treatment and is “very much improved, almost clinically normal,” Dr. De Luca said, adding that the mother, who needed oxygen during the delivery, is healthy. Dr. De Luca said the virus appeared to have been transmitted through the placenta of the 23-year-old mother. Since the pandemic began, there have been i...

The Mississippi State Medical Association is supporting physicians' calls for a statewide mask mandate, which requires everyone to wear masks in public spaces.Gov. Tate Reeves said he and MSMA officials have the same goal to increase the number of people in Mississippi who are wearing masks."We may not 100% agree on how to accomplish that," Reeves said. Reeves said the state is focusing on placing additional restrictions on areas of the state identified as hot spots. An order went into effect Monday for 13 counties, including Hinds, Madison and Rankin, that requires masks to be worn in public. "Our goal has to be the best, highest number of people wearing masks and making sure they observe social distancing guidelines," Reeves said.The daily number of COVID-19 cases in Mississippi ha...