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A 30-year-old man who believed the coronavirus was a hoax and attended a “Covid party” died after being infected with the virus, according to a Texas hospital. The man had attended a gathering with an infected person to test whether the coronavirus was real, said Dr. Jane Appleby, chief medical officer at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, where the man died. She did not say when the party took place, how many people attended or how long after the event was the man hospitalized with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The man was not publicly identified. The premise of such parties is to test whether the virus really exists or to intentionally expose people to the coronavirus in an attempt to gain immunity. Dr. Appleby said the man had told his nurse that he attended a ...

16 new cases reported in Deschutes County, 5 in Jefferson County PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 234, along with 332 more cases, 21 of them in Central Oregon, the Oregon Health Authority reported Sunday. OHA reported 332 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Sunday, bringing the state total to 12,170 cases, along with 284,002 negative test results. The new cases are in the following counties: Baker (1), Benton (2), Clackamas (33), Deschutes (16), Douglas (4), Hood River (1), Jackson (2), Jefferson (5), Klamath (2), Lane (10), Linn (8), Malheur (71), Marion (28), Morrow (7), Multnomah (70), Polk (4), Sherman (1), Umatilla (27), Wasco (1), Washington (35), Yamhill...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois reached another one-day high in testing, as it surpassed 38,000 COVID-19 tests conducted in the last 24 hours. Illinois' confirmed coronavirus cases increased by 954 , including 20 deaths, on Sunday. There's now a total of 153,916 COVID-19 cases and 7,187 deaths statewide. Within the last 24 hours, Illinois performed 38,894 tests, bringing the state's total to more than 1.9 million. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported on Sunday that the state's seven-day positivity for cases as a percent of total tests from July 5 -July 11 is 3.0%. On Thursday, the rate reported was 2.6%. Also on Thursday, the last single-day testing record was set, with 36,180 tests performed. Two weeks into Chicago's Phase 4 reopening, the city's test positivity rate is still bel...

Former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Sunday that some states in the U.S. reopened businesses too early, leading to surges in coronavirus cases across the country.  “I think that they felt they were out of the woods after that first wave passed, but this has really been a regional experience in the United State.  What happened is they reopened against the backdrop what was a lot of spread, they hadn't really crushed the virus in those states,” Gottlieb said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”  He said the states opened “too early” in his view.  “And people became complacent, especially younger people,” he added. “They were going out, not taking precautions.” WATCH: @ScottGottliebMD tells @margbrennan some states reopened "too early in my view" as peopl...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — With the United States grappling with the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world, Florida hit a grim milestone Sunday, shattering the national record for a state’s largest single-day increase in positive cases. Deaths from the virus have also been rising in the U.S., especially in the South and West, though still well below the heights hit in April, according to a recent Associated Press analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University.

What to Know Florida reported 15,300 new cases Sunday, the highest number on record. Statewide, more than 2,576,813 people have been tested for COVID-19, with an overall percent positive of 11.25% for new cases. The state has seen a large increase in cases in the past week, with nearly 69,700 confirmed in the last seven days. Continuing a week long trend of mind-boggling numbers, the coronavirus numbers released Sunday by the Florida Department of Health set yet another record. Florida reported 15,300 new cases on Sunday, the highest number on record, bringing its total to 269,811. 45 more reported deaths were confirmed by the state since Saturday for a total of 4,242 since the start of the pandemic. The state has seen a large increase in cases in the past week, w...

HOUSTON – Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Saturday proposed a shutdown, arguing it was necessary as COVID-19 cases have climbed steadily in recent weeks. “We have to acknowledge the fact that we opened too quickly, too soon,” said Turner. “We have to acknowledge the fact that the numbers are continuing to rise. We have to recognize the fact that not everybody is going to put on this mask. Let’s just be real, even with the requirement. Knowing all of that and knowing what works, you’ve got to realibrate.” Turner’s comments came as coronavirus cases in the city and state have reached record levels, daily deaths have risen and hospitals have seen an increase in the number of patients with COVID-19. Texas set a record on Saturday, reporting 10,351 new cases, the Associated Press reported. ...

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez (R) said Sunday that hospitals will soon be at capacity in his county as coronavirus cases surge in southern Florida and across the state.  Asked by CNN’s Dana BashDana BashDuckworth says Trump's Mt. Rushmore speech showed 'his priorities are all wrong' FDA commissioner declines to confirm Trump claim that 99 percent of COVID-19 cases are 'harmless' Pro-Trump super PAC ads attack Biden's economic record in 'blue wall' states MORE how long it will be before the hospitals in Miami-Dade are at capacity, Giménez said that “it won’t be long.”  “We definitely had a sharp increase in the number of people going to the hospital, the number of people in ICU, the number of people on ventilators,” Giménez said on “State of the Union.” “We still have capacity, bu...

Los Angeles County health officials have ordered the closure of a garment manufacturing facility where more than 300 employees tested positive for the novel coronavirus, including four people who died from the disease. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) said in a statement Friday that the order came as a result of an investigation into Los Angeles Apparel, a basics apparel manufacturer and distributor founded in 2016. The company employs more than 350 people, according to its Facebook page. DPH said that it initiated the probe after learning that three employees died of COVID-19 in June and that one succumbed to the virus in early July.  “The death of four dedicated garment workers is heartbreaking and tragic,” DPH Director Barbara Ferrer said in a stateme...

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