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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - After going nearly three months without a death related to COVID-19, the Springfield-Greene County Health Department announced Wednesday night a Greene County woman died from the coronavirus. The woman was in her 80s, but the Health Department did not further identify her. A news release said the woman was not living in a long-term care facility and had no underlying risk factors aside from her age. Her death marks the ninth in the county since the pandemic began, but the first since April 9. Five of the other eight deaths were residents in the Morningside of Springfield East Assisted Living facility. “The Health Department extends our condolences to loved ones at this tragic time,” the news release said. Copyright 2020 KY3. All rights reserved.

CLIFTON PARK — Saratoga County health officials say an employee at Delmonico's Italian Steakhouse in Clifton Park has tested positive for COVID-19, and may have exposed others. The exposure would have been low risk, they said, noting that the employee wore a mask at all times. The potential exposures occurred Wednesday, July 1 from 3 to 9 p.m. and Friday, July 3 from 2 to 8:30 p.m. Anyone who visited the restaurant on those dates is asked to self-monitor for signs and symptoms of COVID-19 and get a diagnostic test if need be. Albany County last week temporarily shuttered two restaurants, including the Delmonico's on Central Avenue, after employees tested positive. The state Department of Health was brought in to conduct on-site testin...

The website will handle registration for the four large vaccine studies that are expected to start this summer and fall, and any others that follow. The US Department of Health and Human Services announced the website Wednesday, along with the appointment of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle as the coordinating center for vaccine clinical trials run by the Covid-19 Prevention Network, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health. A vaccine developed by Moderna, a Massachusetts biotech company, is expected to be the first to be tested in a large trial. That trial was expected to begin this week, but the start date was moved to late July or early August, according to Dr. Carlos del Rio, principal investigator at the Moderna site at Emory University in Atlanta. ...

Alex Edelman | AFP | Getty Images Scientists warned on Wednesday of a potential wave of coronavirus-related brain damage as new evidence suggested Covid-19 can lead to severe neurological complications, including inflammation, psychosis and delirium. A study by researchers at University College London (UCL)described 43 cases of patients with Covid-19 who suffered either temporary brain dysfunction, strokes, nerve damage or other serious brain effects. The research adds to recent studies which also found the disease can damage the brain. "Whether we will see an epidemic on a large scale of brain damage linked to the pandemic – perhaps similar to the encephalitis lethargica outbreak in the 1920s and 1930s after the 1918 influenza pandemic – remains to be se...

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HOUSTON – This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. When Karen Salazar stopped by to check on her mother on the evening of June 22, she found her in worse shape than she expected. Her mother, Felipa Medellín, 54, had been complaining about chest pains and fatigue, symptoms that she attributed to a new diabetes treatment she’d started days earlier. Medellín, who had seen a doctor that day, insisted she was fine. But Salazar, 29, noticed that when Medellín lay down, her chest was rising and falling rapidly — as if she couldn’t catch her breath. “I grabbed her hand and I said: ‘I’m sorry. I know you don’t want...

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We're making coronavirus coverage available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider joining others in supporting local journalism in Alaska for just $3.23 a week. Alaska reported a near-record increase in the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases on Wednesday, with 40 new cases in residents and seven in nonresidents. One more infected resident required hospitalization Tuesday, for a total of 79 since the pandemic began in March, according to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services COVID-19 dashboard. Statewide hospital census information showed 30 people hospitalized Wednesday morning with either positive tests or pending results, but that data ca...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported Wednesday that an additional 1,190 people in the state have recovered from COVID-19.As of July 8, weekly data shows that 94,347 patients have been released from isolation, meaning they are considered to have recovered from the virus.Last week, state health officials said 93,157 patients had recovered from COVID-19. In addition, the DPH confirmed 30 new COVID-19-related deaths across the state Wednesday, bringing the state's confirmed coronavirus death toll to 8,028.State health officials also confirmed 162 new COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 104,961. As of Wednesday, 662 patients with the virus were hospitalized in Massachusetts. There were 102 COVID-19 patients reported to be in a...