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The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported 24 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday as well as an additional death. The total number of confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 in Maine stood at 3,912. To date, at least 123 Mainers have died after contracting the disease caused by the coronavirus. A pedestrian crosses Spring and Union streets in Portland on Monday. Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer The Maine CDC was reporting 428 active cases Friday after accounting for the total number of deaths and the 3,361 individuals who have recovered, an increase of seven since Thursday. There have been 3,499 confirmed cases of the virus and 413 probable cases. Maine continues to have among the lowest infection and death rates in the nation from COVID-19, according to daily tr...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Allegheny County saw its second biggest addition of new covid-19 cases Friday, with the county’s Health Department reporting 244 new incidences. The cases come from a batch of tests conducted from over the past month, 30 of which have specimen collection dates from more than two weeks ago. Officials said they were aware of the backlog and have already completed case investigation and contact tracing. On the state level, the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced Friday it will boost its covid-19 contact tracing staff by about 1,000 more workers. In addition, the county set another record for new hospitalizations, adding 33 more people to its total of...

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Andrey Zhuravlev/iStock/Getty Images Plus. In the U.S., COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire. At the same time, the research community is learning more and more about how the coronavirus gets from one person to another. There are many nuances, and we don’t know everything about it yet. But we’re in an emergency, and we do have actionable facts. To help break through the noise, the public should be warned, plainly, and often: The coronavirus is airborne. Researchers and medical practitioners have spent months pressing the public health establishment to evolve on messaging about the ways that COVID-19 spreads. At first, many experts thought that the virus spr...

Children under five years of age may harbor up to 100 times as much of the coronavirus in their noses and throats as infected adults and older children, according to a study out of Chicago. “Our analyses suggest children younger than 5 years with mild to moderate COVID-19 have high amounts of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in their nasopharynx compared with older children and adults," the researchers stated in the study published in JAMA Pediatrics on Thursday. RECOVERED CORONAVIRUS PATIENT REGAINS SENSE OF SMELL - BUT ONLY FOR FOUL ODORS  "Young children can potentially be important drivers of SARS-CoV-2 spread in the general population, as has been demonstrated with respiratory syncytial virus, where children with high viral loads are more likely to transmit," they wrote. The authors stated ...

New York — A German shepherd in New York that had the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in a dog in the U.S. has died. Robert and Allison Mahoney of Staten Island told National Geographic that their 7-year-old shepherd, Buddy, developed breathing problems in mid-April after Robert had been sick with the coronavirus for several weeks. A veterinarian tested Buddy in May and found him positive for the virus. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported in June that a German shepherd in New York state was the first dog in the country to test positive for COVID-19, but did not identify the owners. Buddy's health declined steadily after he developed breathing problems and thick nasal mucus in April. He was euthanized on July 11 after he started vomiting clotted blood, the Mahoneys told National...

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