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California recorded its highest single-day COVID-19 death toll Wednesday, with 149 fatalities reported, according to a Los Angeles Times county-by-county tally. The previous high was recorded on May 19, according to The Times’ California coronavirus tracker, when 132 deaths were tallied. For weeks, daily coronavirus deaths had remained steady even as the number of newly confirmed cases and hospitalizations have risen. It’s a trend experts believe occurred as California’s reopening accelerated in late May and people returned to pre-pandemic routines around Memorial Day, with some people not wearing masks in public and people returning to social gatherings. But experts have feared that the daily death toll would start to climb eventually, catching up with the spikes in cases and hospitaliz...

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Health experts have stressed the importance of wearing a mask to limit the possibility of infecting others with COVID-19, but a range of new research now suggests they also protect the wearer, according to a report Monday. With many states implementing policies to make face coverings mandatory in both indoor and outdoor spaces, one doctor says that masks also reduce the risk of infection to the wearer by 65 percent. "We've learned more due to research and additional scientific evidence and now we know [that] not only wearing a mask prevents the person wearing the mask to transmit to others, but wearing the mask protects the person who's wearing it," said Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital. MASSACHUSETTS SUSPECT PULLS GUN ON MASKLESS M...

Coronavirus airborne transmission is evident, 239 researchers said recently, urging the World Health Organization to acknowledge the risk. The organization said in response that there’s “emerging evidence” that the virus can spread via the air, not just the droplets that result from coughing, sneezing, and talking. But the WHO’s wording seems to suggest that it isn’t going to change its COVID-19 transmission guidelines to take into account measures that can reduce airborne spread. The World Health Organization (WHO) just acknowledged the increasing evidence that shows the coronavirus is spreading via air. The move came in response to an open letter from 239 scientists who urged the organization to acknowledge the risk of COVID-19 spread in indoor settings that are poorly v...

LOS ANGELES, CA — By week's end, Los Angeles County schools could have a series of health protocols to serve as guidelines for reopening schools, county officials announced Wednesday. The announcements follows a head-spinning series developments at the federal level this week after the Centers for Disease Control issued coronavirus protocols for schools only to provoke the ire of President Donald Trump. After Trump declared the guidelines too strict, Vice President Mike Pence announced plans to loosen them. The nation's largest school districts, Los Angeles and New York, have warned that the upcoming school year is likely to involve a measure of distance learning. According to the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer told a conference call of scho...

To prevent the outbreak from spinning out of control, US residents must focus on controlling crowds, wearing masks and doing a better job at physical distancing, Dr. Anthony Fauci told the Wall Street Journal in a podcast Wednesday. Climbing cases, sparked in part by loosened restrictions, have motivated many states to pause or roll back plans to reopen economies after widespread shutdowns in the spring. "We've got to just tighten things up, close the bars, indoor restaurants ... or make it so there's very good seating, make sure people wear masks, make sure they don't congregate in crowds, make sure they keep the distance," Fauci urged. "If you do those simple public health measures, guarantee you're going to see that curve come down. It's happened, time and again in virtually every co...

GLENDALE, Ariz. - One of the nation’s coronavirus hot spots got a sliver of good news on July 8 when two health experts said an exponential rise in the percentage of people testing positive for the virus in Arizona appears to have leveled off. Dr. Joshua LaBaer of Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute tempered the news with a warning that the state’s tally of additional daily cases remains unsustainable, although it also shows a sign of leveling off. Arizona steadily has reported about 3,500 additional cases a day and hospitals are still admitting more patients than they’re discharging, he said. What’s needed is a drop in daily cases. “We don’t want to have 3,500 cases in a day, particularly when ... our hospital system is now challenged and overused at this point,” h...

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