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One day after Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti warned that “We’d likely return to a mandated stay-at-home order” in one or two weeks if coronavirus conditions in the region get worse, the head of Los Angeles County’s Health Department agreed, with some qualifications. “Nothing can be off the table in the pandemic,” said county public health director, Barbara Ferrer. “There’s too much unknown and there’s lots of things that could happen that could put us in much worse shape, including, you know, some serious mutations of this virus that make it more dangerous. So I would never be the person that’s going to say, ‘Absolutely. Out of the question. We can never go back to Safer At Home.’ “There’s just too much unknown here,” continued Ferrer. “There’s a virus. There’s a pandemi...

PERRY CO., MO (WSIL) -- According to a statement from Perry County Memorial Hospital, a doctor who tested positive for COVID-19 was still on duty and may have seen patients. That doctor was asymptomatic at the time. A post on the hospital's Facebook page says two physicians tested positive and a third refused to return to work. You can read the entire statement from the hospital CEO below: Emergency Room personnel are often the front-line warriors in the COVID Pandemic battle. They bear some of the greatest risks of COVID exposure. Locally, Perry County Memorial Hospital (PCMH) has been treating COVID positive patients since March primarily in the Acute Respiratory Clinic, Emergency Room, and inpatient care units. Nearly every shift presents COVID exposure to...

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A small study strengthens evidence that a pregnant woman infected with the coronavirus might be able to spread it to her fetus. Researchers from Italy said Thursday that they studied 31 women with COVID-19 who delivered babies in March and April. They found signs of the virus in several samples of umbilical cord blood, the placenta and, in one case, breast milk. Women shouldn't panic. This doesn't mean there's viable virus in those places and "it's too early to make guidelines" or to change care, said the study leader, Dr. Claudio Fenizia, an immunology specialist at the University of Milan. But it does merit more study, especially of women who are infected earlier in their pregnancies than these women, said Fenizia, who discussed the results at a medical conference being held online ...