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Syracuse, N.Y. -- Two people who were at Tommy’s Park in Syracuse late Friday night without masks have now tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the Onondaga County Health Department. The customers were at the bar at 901 Butternut St. on Friday, July 10, from 11 p.m. to close, which was around midnight, the department said. Anyone who was at the bar during that time period may have been exposed, according to the health department. Those people should monitor for symptoms for 14 days. The server was wearing a mask and the establishment has been limiting capacity to under 50% and following federal cleaning guidelines, according to the county. The county recorded 29 new coronavirus cases today. Just five of those new cases were “community spread,” meaning it’s unclear how the ...

Los Angeles County health officials on Saturday confirmed 2,916 new coronavirus cases and 57 more related deaths, as the region struggles with a surge of cases in the ongoing pandemic. There are more than 2,000 people hospitalized with the virus, with 27% of those confirmed cases in intensive care and 18% on ventilators, officials said. It’s a significant increase from the 1,350 to 1,450 daily hospitalizations seen a month ago, according to the county Health Department. L.A. County has identified 130,242 positive cases of the virus and seen a total of 3,793 related deaths. Officials have warned of the potential for exceeding hospital capacity if stricken patients have to start competing with others for a bed. “For those of you mourning the loss of a loved one from COVID-19, your community...

A New York City ER doctor who killed herself at the height of the coronavirus crisis told friends she felt she 'couldn't help anyone' and was 'embarrassed' when she suffered a breakdown because of mental health stigma in the medical community. Dr. Lorna M. Breen, 49, the medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, committed suicide in Charlottesville, Virginia on April 26. Her tragic death came just weeks after she recovered from coronavirus and days after she was discharged from a psychiatric ward following a mental health episode. Breen's devastated family, friends and colleagues spoke out about her shock suicide to the New York Times and told how they believe it was triggered by her traumatic work in a Manhattan hospital during the pandemic.  T...

Richard "Rick" Rose, a 37-year-old man from Port Clinton, Ohio, recently died at his home from complications due to COVID-19. Rose's death has attracted attention online due to his Facebook posts, in which he expressed doubt about coronavirus safety directives. "Let make this clear. I'm not buying a f---ing mask. I've made it this far by not buying into that damn hype," he posted on April 28. Throughout June, Rose "checked in" on Facebook at bars and restaurants in Ohio. On July 1, he wrote that he was experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. Rose's family told a local outlet he tested positive for COVID-19 that same day and died on July 3. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Richard Rose, a 37-year-old man from Port Clinton, Ohio, recently died from coronavir...

Texas man, 30, dies after catching coronavirus at a COVID party as nurse reveals he told her he thought the virus was a 'hoax' before he died The 30-year-old man purposely attended a party thrown by someone infected with coronavirus, which aims to see if any other attendees get infected The man became critically ill and was admitted to the hospital where he died Before his death, he told his nurse that he thought the virus was a 'hoax'  By Maxine Shen For Dailymail.com Published: 15:25 EDT, 11 July 2020 | Updated: 16:30 EDT, 11 July 2020 A Texas man died after attending a 'COVID party' because he thought coronavirus is a hoax, authorities said.  The man was 30 years old at the time of his death, according to Methodist Healthcare Chief Medical Officer Dr. J...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Tennessee Department of Health reported 60,508 confirmed cases and 498 probable cases of COVID-19 in the state on Saturday, an increase of 1,460 total cases since Friday. The health department also announced 711 confirmed deaths, 3,193 hospitalizations, and 35,435 recoveries. More than a million coronavirus tests have been administered.  Sullivan County executive order: Mask mandate to go in effect July 12 On Friday, TDH reported 59,085 confirmed cases and 697 confirmed deaths.  Saturday, TDH reported 83 new cases in our area: 26 in Washington County, 21 in Sullivan County, 16 in Carter County, 13 in Greene County, three in Hawkins County, and one in Johnson County. Nine new recoveries were reported. There are now 355 ac...

America's coronavirus death rate has started going up again, driven by Florida, Texas and other states in the South and West where infections have exploded in recent weeks.  Stark figures reveal the long-expected upturn in the nation's daily death toll has begun, with another 802 fatalities recorded Friday. The seven-day rolling average has jumped by almost 100 victims in the last two weeks alone, driven by record-high numbers of new cases in several southern states, which are now starting to translate into a spike in deaths.   More than 134,000 Americans have now been killed in the pandemic and a leading medical expert has warned that this could climb to 250,000 by the end of the year.  According to an Associated Press analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University...

A coronavirus outbreak has struck the operations of Los Angeles Apparel, with more than 300 infections and four virus-related deaths among the manufacturer’s workers, county public health officials announced Friday. In a statement Friday evening, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said that it first shut down operations at the South L.A. garment manufacturer June 27 after inspectors found “flagrant violations” of public health infection control orders and the company’s failure to cooperate with an investigation of a reported coronavirus outbreak. On Thursday, the department ordered the continued suspension of Los Angeles Apparel’s operations. Los Angeles Apparel, which was founded in 2016 by ousted American Apparel founder Dov Charney, had converted its operations to makin...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (KTRK) -- An infant has died due to coronavirus in Corpus Christi, the Corpus Christi-Nueces County Public Health District reports. The baby boy was six weeks old. "Our deepest condolences go out to his parents and family," the Nueces County Public Health District said in a statement. District director Annette Rodriguez said the child had a co-infection and his death was identified as sudden infant death syndrome, also known as SIDS, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported. An autopsy was ordered, though there is no approved postmortem COVID-19 test, according to the Caller-Times report. Results could take up to eight weeks. Copyright © 2020 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.

SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio doctor said one of her hospital's patients, a 30-year-old man, died after attending a so-called "COVID party" -- a bizarre trend where young people intentionally get together with someone who's infected. Dr. Jane Appleby, chief medical officer for Methodist Hospital and Methodist Children's Hospital, said the patient thought the coronavirus pandemic was a hoax. "He thought he was young and he was invincible and wouldn't get affected ... One of the things that was heart-wrenching that he said to his nurse was, 'I think I made a mistake,'" she said. Many who attend "COVID party" are competing to see who can catch the first. During events reported in Alabama, some college students even gambled money to give to the "winner," the one who catches COVID-19 first. ...