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The current surge in coronavirus cases in the United States is being driven by states that were among the first to reopen their economies, decisions that epidemiologists warned could lead to a wave of infections. Percent change in average daily cases since reopening Based on a 7-day rolling average in states with at least 2,000 total cases. Florida and South Carolina were among the first to open up and are now among the states leading the current surge. In contrast, the states that bore the brunt of cases in March and April but were slower to reopen have seen significant decreases in reported cases since. Average daily cases in New York are down 52 percent since it reopened in late May and down 83 percent in Massa...

RELEASED EARLIER THIS MORNING... 26 NEW CASES TODAY, FOR A NEW TOTAL OF 3- THOUSAND, 4- HUNDRED AND 86 CASES. THERE IS ONE NEW DEATH....A WOMAN IN HER EIGHTIES FROM PENOBSCOT COUNTY THE DEATH TOLL IS NOW HUNDRED AND ELEVEN. ACTIVE CASES NOW AT Maine CDC reports 1 new coronavirus-related death, 26 new cases Updated: 12:10 PM EDT Jul 9, 2020 The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported one new coronavirus-related death and 26 new cases on Thursday.The number of Mainers with COVID-19 who have died is 111. The new reported death was a woman in her 80s from Penobscot County.The 26 new cases brings the tota...

A Missouri sleepaway camp has shut down after more than 80 kids and staffers became infected with the coronavirus, health officials said. Kamp Kanakuk decided to end its K-2 program in Lampe last week after the first few dozen cases were detected, according to the Stone County Health Department. As of Monday, at least 82 campers and staff have tested positive for the virus, officials said. The infected campers and employees have since returned to at least 10 states, as well as several Missouri counties, officials said. “Stone County Health Department will be working closely with Kanakuk Kamps to identify exposed individuals and quarantine those individuals, as necessary,” the agency said. The Christian summer camp program, which hosted kids ages 13 to 18, had promised a ...

In January, as a frightening new virus filled hospital wards in Wuhan, China, Stephanie Giordano, a 25-year-old researcher at the drugmaker Regeneron, in a suburb of New York City, began working on a treatment for the disease. By March, the deadly coronavirus had hit home. Fearing she would get infected on the train that took her to the lab every day, she moved from her apartment in East Harlem to an Airbnb five minutes from the company’s headquarters in Tarrytown, in Westchester County. Then her mother, a nurse’s assistant who cared for newborn babies at a Long Island hospital, was reassigned to a Covid-19 ward where she tended to older people struggling to breathe. No drug could help these patients — or her, if she were to get sick, too. “I had somebody on the line that I really cared ...