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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US's top infectious disease expert, said this week that the US is not headed in a positive direction when it comes to controlling the spread of the novel coronavirus. "I think it's pretty obvious that we are not going in the right direction," Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told JAMA in an interview. He added that new research suggests the virus is now more infectious than it was before but that it does not seem to be making people sicker. The US has seen a resurgence in new cases since multiple states began reopening earlier than recommended. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The nation's top infectious disease expert said Thursday that the US is not headed in a positive dir...

Instead, it had relied on a mix of data sent in by member countries and by academic groups, and on a meta-analysis done in May by scientists at the University of Wollongong and James Cook University in Australia. Those researchers looked at 267 studies in more than a dozen countries, and then chose the 25 they considered the most accurate, weighting them for accuracy and averaged the data. They concluded that the global I.F.R. was 0.64 percent. The C.D.C.’s estimate for the United States is lower: an I.F.R of 0.4 percent, according to a set of planning scenarios released in late May. The agency did not respond to requests to explain how it arrived at that figure, or why it was so much lower than the W.H.O.’s estimate. By comparison, 0.4 percent of the United States population is 1.3 milli...

More than 27.5 percent of COVID-19 cases in Jefferson County have been confirmed in the past seven days, according to the latest data from the Alabama Department of Public Health. Jefferson County, home to Birmingham, has seen 4,802 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date, according to numbers released by ADPH Friday morning. Of those cases, 1,321 were added in the past week, far more than any other county. Jefferson County’s weekly tally is more than double that of Mobile County, which added 633 cases, and more than triple that of Montgomery County, which has seen 426 new cases in the past seven days. Mobile and Montgomery counties, though both significantly less populous than Jefferson County, have each been more significant hotspots at different points since coronavirus came to Alabama. Jef...

Susie Flanagan is still grieving the loss of her 91-year-old mother, who died from COVID-19 in April. So it really stings when she leaves her Lopatcong Township home and passes by a sign outside her mother’s former nursing home declaring: “We beat COVID.” Her teenage kids ride past it on their bikes. Her family simply can’t escape it. The sign drives home that Nora Giordano is no longer with them. That this resident of Genesis HealthCare’s Brakeley Park Center, 290 Red School Lane, did not beat COVID-19. “Do you have to do it in the neighborhood where people live who lost their family members?” Flanagan said. “I am just really appalled.” The disease caused by the novel coronavirus took Giordano’s life and the lives of at least 25 other Brakeley Park nursing home residents, according t...