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LAKE ZURICH, Ill. —  A large number of social gatherings around the Fourth of July may have fueled more than 70 new COVID-19 infections in the Northwest suburbs. Investigators used contact tracing to make their determination after 73 people tested positive for coronavirus. Those people include students and adults in Lake Zurich as well as surrounding communities. The Lake County Health Department says they are experiencing difficulty in getting people to respond to phone calls and texts from contact tracers. Officials urge anyone who has received a call from the department to return the call as soon as possible. The number of positive cases are expected to rise in the days ahead. The outbreak has already canceled summer sports camps at Lake Zurich High School. ...

The frightening symptoms began in early March, when Ailsa Court of Portland, Oregon, suspects she caught the coronavirus from someone at work. More than four months later, she still has shortness of breath, achiness in her lungs, and a strange tingling in her calves. But doctors have downplayed Court’s concerns as her health problems have dragged on. At one point, her primary care doctor suggested that perhaps she was just “stressed because of the economy,” she said. And during a visit to an urgent care center in May — when she feared she might be having a stroke or other neurological problem because she was having memory loss and a crippling migraine, in addition to chest tightness and numbness in her legs — a physician rolled his eyes at her, Court, 35, said. Her issues were nothing m...

Florida set another grim record Tuesday with nearly 200 more COVID-19 deaths recorded overnight, but in recent days an ominous sight outside a funeral home has been sending a shiver through a Miami-area town –- a refrigerated trailer for storing bodies. Rumors that the corpses of coronavirus victims were being stored there -- and unfounded fears that the bodies could spread the disease -- have sparked several protests in recent days outside the San Jose Funeral Home in Hialeah. “We went to the funeral home to ask about it and they told us that they were at capacity and that they had COVID-19 infected bodies that they were storing in that container,” Liliana Vázquez Acosta, who lives near the funeral home and who first sounded the alarm, told The Miami Herald. Six refrigerator trailers s...

The novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 655,000 people worldwide. Over 16.5 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some governments are hiding or downplaying the scope of their nations' outbreaks. The United States has become the worst-affected country, with more than 4.3 million diagnosed cases and at least 148,298 deaths. Marlins games postponed through Sunday 30% of new Louisiana cases are among young people DC, Illinois now on New York travel advisory list Here is how the ne...

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