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Children in an elementary school class wear masks and sit as desks spaced apart as per coronavirus guidelines during summer school sessions at Happy Day School in Monterey Park, California on July 9. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Members of a leading group of infectious disease experts warned Thursday against reopening schools in Florida, Texas and other states where coronavirus cases are surging, saying older children are just as likely to spread Covid-19 as adults.  "The simple answer is no," Dr. Tina Tan, a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University, said when asked whether she would suggest reopening schools in states such as Florida, Texas, California and Arizona in the near future.  "When you have such surges of disease in the communit...

MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - For the second time in three days, Wisconsin received more than 1,000 tests that were positive for the coronavirus. The state received 14,212 tests during the 24-hour period ending Thursday morning, and 1,052 were positive. That’s 7.4%. That’s comparable to Tuesday, when the state had a record 1,117 positive results from 14,488 tests, or 7.71%. But it’s a reversal from Wednesday, when 712 results were positive out of even more tests -- 14,780 tests, or 4.82%. That was the first time since July 7 that positive results were below 5%. The percentage of positive tests is a key indicator of how successfully the state is containing the spread of the virus. Positive coronavirus tests were reported in 62 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties and eight of the 15 counties in Michigan...

A North Carolina woman said she was attacked on her bed by a rabid fox that entered her home through a dog door. Julie Loflin told reporters the fox came into her bedroom in Greensboro on Sunday night. She said the animal then jumped on her bed, bit her finger and grabbed her ankle by its mouth. Loflin said grabbed the animal by its neck for more than 12 minutes as she waited for police to arrive. News reports said authorities pulled the fox away from her after they got to the house. Loflin suffered injuries on her ankle and finger and has been given a rabies vaccine, she said. GREENSBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina woman said she was attacked on her bed by a rabid fox that entered her home through a dog door. Julie Loflin told reporters the fox came into her b...

A bottle of generic aspirinPhoto: Tim Boyle (Getty Images) Some inactive ingredients commonly found in medicines may not be so inactive after all, according to a new study published today. Researchers found evidence in the lab that several ingredients, including certain dyes and preservatives, are capable of affecting proteins, receptors, and other parts of our biology, possibly in important and noticeable ways. The findings aren’t proof that these ingredients can harm people, but they do suggest further research is needed. The scientists looked at thousands of inactive ingredients, also known as excipients. They screened them for their potential to interact or bond with any number of molecular targets found in the body’s cells, including those that regulate our levels of important ...