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There is "a real risk" that the coronavirus can be airborne, meaning it can spread through microscopic particles that linger in the air, an open letter supported by 239 scientists says. The scientists are urging the World Health Organization and other public health organizations to amend their guidelines to reflect this risk. "Hand washing and social distancing are appropriate, but in our view, insufficient to provide protection from virus-carrying respiratory microdroplets released into the air by infected people," states the letter, entitled "It is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of COVID-19." The WHO has said the coronavirus is only confirmed to be airborne during aerosol-generating medical procedures performed in health care settings, such as intubation. It says the virus...

>> THANK YOU. NAUTA BREAKING NEWS. COVID-19 CASES CONTINUED ARISING GREENVILLE COUNTY. THE COUNTY STILL HAS THE MOST CASES IN THE STATE. TODAY HEALTH OFFICIALS REPORTED , OVER 150 NEW CASES. THAT BRINGS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF POSITIVE CASES TO 6,010. OFFICIALS SAY 86 PEOPLE IN THE COUNTY HAVE DIED. SOUTH CAROLINA HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE ANNOUNCED SIX MORE DEATHS ASSOCIATED WITH COVID-19 IN THE STATE. THAT BRINGS THE TOTAL TO 819 PEOPLE. -- PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED. WE ARE TOLD THERE ARE 46,247 POSITIVE CASES ACROSS THE STATE. THIS IS AN INCREASE OF 1505 FROM YESTERDAY. OFFICIALS SAY OVER 7000 PEOPLE WERE TESTED STATEWIDE YESTERDAY, AND THE PERCENT OF POSITIVE CASES WAS OVER 18%, REALLY 19%. SHALL SAY -- OFFICIALS SAY OVER 1,000 PATIENTS ARE IN THE HOSPITAL. >> HERE ARE YOUR ...

The coronavirus may be causing scary neurological issues in some children. Youth may help beat the novel virus itself, but kids may be more vulnerable to a secondary, brain damage-causing ailment which follows coronavirus infection. The disorder, called COVID-19 pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome, is thought to be a debilitating immune response to COVID-19. It is similar to, but much worse than, the Kawasaki-like inflammatory condition previously linked to young adults with the coronavirus, states a study published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Neurology. “Increasing reports of children developing systemic inflammatory response requiring intensive care . . . and a further group of children with a far less severe, Kawasaki-like disease . . . suggest that despite the...

Beijing — While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, other infectious threats remain, with local health authorities announcing a suspected bubonic plague case in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.  Authorities in the Bayannur district raised the plague warning on Sunday, ordered residents not to hunt wild animals such as marmots and to send for treatment anyone with fever or showing other possible signs of infection. Plague can be fatal in up to 90% of people infected if not treated, primarily with several types of antibiotics. Pneumonic plague can develop from bubonic plague and results in a severe lung infection causing shortness of breath, headache and coughing. China has largely eradicated plague, but occasional cases are still reported, especially a...

A young East Bay man, struggling with schizophrenia and addiction, breaks his sobriety and fatally overdoses on drugs after COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders cut him off from in-person meetings with his therapist. Teens suffer breakdowns over their loss of contact with school and friends. Black residents, including the mother of a police shooting victim, find themselves emotionally devastated all over again by images of George Floyd being killed by Minneapolis officers. These are among the stories that have begun to emerge as Bay Area residents endure the growing psychological toll of an unprecedented and prolonged global pandemic, civil unrest and uncertainty about the country’s future. Bay Area mental health specialists and crisis line managers say they have seen an increasing numb...

THE STATE DEPARTMENT HEALTH HAS RELEASED THE LATEST CORONAVIRUS CASE NUMBERS. IT ADDED 450 CASES, PUSHING THE STATEWIDE TOTAL TO MORE THAN 90,000. THERE IS ONE NEW DEATH, BRINGING THAT TOTAL TO 6754. THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. Coronavirus: 90,304 cases of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania WGAL News 8 coronavirus cases updates Updated: 1:58 PM EDT Jul 6, 2020 The Pennsylvania Department of Health says there are now 90,304 cases of coronavirus in the state. That is an increase of 450 from the previous day.The department also reported four new deaths for a total of 6,754 deaths.Map shows number of COVID-19 cases county-by-county“As the entire...

THIS IS CHANNEL 8, WMTW, MAINE'S TOTAL WEATHER, NEWS, COVERAGE AT NOON. GOOD AFTERNOON AND THANKS FOR JOINING US, I'M MEGHAN TORJUSSEN WE'LL GET TO YOUR WEATHER IN JUST A MOMENT...BUT FIRST A LOOK AT THE BREAKING CORONAVIRUS NEWS IN MAINE... FROM THE CDC... á8á NEW CASES TODAY, FOR A NEW TOTAL OF 3- THOUSAND, 4- HUNDRED AND 23 CASES. THERE ARE NO NEW DEATHS....THE DEATH TOLL REMAINS ONE HUNDRED AND 9. ACTIVE CASES NOW AT Maine CDC reports no new coronavirus-related deaths, 8 new cases Updated: 2:49 PM EDT Jul 6, 2020 The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported no new coronavirus-re...

File Photo: Patients, some HIV-positive, and their relatives protest for the lack of medicines and medical supplies in hospitals, in front of the Health Ministry in Caracas on April 18, 2018. Luis Robayo | AFP | Getty Images More than 70 countries warned they are at risk of running out of HIV medication due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey conducted by the World Health Organization. Twenty-four countries said they have a "critically low" stock of antiretroviral medicine, or ARVs, largely used as a therapy to treat HIV, or have seen a disruption in their supply chain as a result of the pandemic, the WHO said.  "The findings of this survey are deeply concerning," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. "Countries ...

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