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Researchers have created an affordable, reusable version of an N95 mask that could help healthcare professionals as fears reemerge of a shortage in personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. The group of experts, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass., created a prototype of the mask and found that it worked as well in a laboratory setting at filtering out viral particles as conventional N95 masks. “One of the key things we recognized early on was that in order to help meet the demand, we needed to really restrict ourselves to methods that could scale,” said Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in a statement. “We also w...

South Carolina coronavirus update for July 22, 2020 Updated: 2:59 PM EDT Jul 22, 2020 The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced Wednesday 1,654 new confirmed cases and one new probable case of coronavirus, 39 additional confirmed deaths and 26 new probable deaths.This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 74,761, probable cases to 281, confirmed deaths to 1,203, and 25 probable deaths.Confirmed: Abbeville (5), Aiken (35), Allendale (3), Anderson (32), Bamberg (6), Barnwell (5), Beaufort (84), Berkeley (71), Calhoun (6), Charleston (190), Cherokee (16), Chester (19), Chesterfield (15), Clarendon (14), Colleton (24...

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MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) -On Wednesday, the state said 712 tests came back positive out of the total 14,780 test results, which equals 4.8%. Another 14,068 results were negative. This comes one day after the state broke a single day record for tests which came back positive for the virus, at 1,117. 54 out of Wisconsin’s 72 counties saw an increase in new cases Wednesday, while Michigan’s Upper Peninsula had three out of its 15 counties report an increase in cases. Since early February, 44,847 people in Wisconsin have tested positive for the coronavirus, and another 764,630 have tested negative. The DHS says another six people have died from the virus, bringing the statewide death total since testing began to 865. Currently, the death rate percentage is 1.9%, which held steady from Tuesday. T...

Bill Gates addresses a virtual Covid-19 conference hosted by the International Aids Society. July 11, 2020 International Aids Society Handout Billionaire Bill Gates on Wednesday denied conspiracy theories that accuse the tech mogul and philanthropist of wanting to use coronavirus vaccines to implant tracking devices in people.  Gates, whose foundation has donated millions to coronavirus vaccine and treatment research, addressed a poll from Yahoo News/YouGov survey that found 28% of U.S. adults believed a debunked conspiracy theory suggesting Gates planned to use a potential vaccine for Covid-19 to implant microchips in billions of people to monitor their movements.  "We need to get the truth out there," Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the ...