Health & Fitness

Public health officials on Friday linked 18 new coronavirus cases in Clark County to a Vancouver restaurant. Four employees and 14 customers of Orchards Tap Bar & Grill have tested positive for coronavirus, according to Clark County Public Health. “Given the number of customers who have tested positive, we’re concerned others may be at risk of getting sick,” Dr. Alan Melnick, director of Clark County Public Health, said in a statement. The agency is working now to identify people who may have been exposed, said spokesperson Marissa Armstrong. County officials urge people who visited Orchards Tap Bar & Grill between June 19 and 25 to get tested for coronavirus — even if they don’t have symptoms — and to quarantine at home for two weeks since the day they visited. The county is st...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. — After months of diligently isolating, truck driver Tommy Macias, 51, made one error that cost him his life. He went to a barbecue party with some friends. He didn’t know that someone who had tested positive for COVID-19, but showed no symptoms, also was there. “It was all preventable,” said Gustavo Lopez, Macias’ 52-year-old brother-in-law. “That person knew he had corona and still went. He should have known better, and that one mistake cost (Macias) his life.” More than 10 others who attended that gathering have tested positive for the coronavirus, Lopez said. According to Macias’ family members, the Lake Elsinore man had practi...

A coronavirus outbreak at the University of Washington’s off-campus frat houses has left at least 93 students sickened with the illness, the school announced Friday. Eighty-nine of the infected students at the Seattle school live on Greek Row, while the other four came into close contact with frat house residents. “What is occurring north of campus provides lessons for students as they consider their return to campus this fall,” Dr. Geoffrey Gottlieb, chair of the UW Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases, said Tuesday,  when the outbreak was first reported. Gottlieb warned that in order to establish some semblance of “normalcy” — with socializing and attending classes — students must wear face coverings and practice social distancing. “If we don’t, measures such as w...

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - Customers of Pub New Harmony, 134 Warren Ave., and Hooligans, 122 N. 3rd Ave., in Pocatello, may have been exposed to COVID-19. An employee of Pub New Harmony, who was also a customer of Hooligans, has been confirmed as having COVID-19. Southeastern Idaho Public Health is recommending persons who had been to Pub New Harmony on June 26, 28 or 29 or Hooligans on June 26 monitor themselves for any of the following symptoms: fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, muscle pain, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, headache, or new loss of taste or smell. Experts believe symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure. If you experience any of the symptoms listed above, contact your healthcare prov...

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New daily coronavirus cases in Oregon topped 300 Friday for the second consecutive day, fueled by infections in Multnomah, Umatilla, Washington and Marion counties. The Oregon Health Authority reported 344 new confirmed and presumptive cases, bringing the state total to 9,636. It was the second-highest daily count since the state’s outbreak began in February. The state set a record Thursday with 375 daily cases, eclipsing 281 the day before. The health authority reported no new deaths, with the toll remaining at 209. Twenty-eight of Oregon’s 36 counties reported new cases: Benton (7), Clackamas (22), Clatsop (1), Columbia (3), Coos (1), Crook (1), Deschutes (9), Douglas (1), Jackson (9), Jefferson (5), Josephine (3), Klamath (2), Lake (1), Lane (16), Lincoln (18), Linn (2), Malheur (20),...

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Numerous states recently began reopening their economies, which might be driving some of the youthful bias, said Natalie Dean, an infectious disease epidemiologist in Florida, where new cases are hitting record highs. People in their 20s and 30s have returned to bars and beaches; working-age employees have resumed jobs that cannot be done from home. “We know that’s high-risk,” Dr. Dean said. “We’re hearing a lot of reports of clusters being linked to these places” as they open back up. At the same time, elderly individuals, as well as those with underlying health conditions thought to exacerbate Covid-19, may be warier of exposure, said C. Brandon Ogbunu, a computational biologist and disease ecologist at Yale University. “Early on, this disease ripped through older populations with such ...

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DETROIT, MI — A new study from the Henry Ford Health System may provide more legitimacy on the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. Henry Ford published the peer-reviewed study on July 1, using a large-scale perspective analysis of patients from March 10 to May 2. The study looked over 2,500 hospitalized patients from the Henry Ford’s six hospitals, said Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of infectious disease for Henry Ford Health System. He said the health system wanted to investigate hydroxychloroquine because data showed that it had some clinical benefit and that it could reduce the inflammatory response in COVID-19 patients early in the pandemic. “We thought that it would be important to us, or potentially important to use in our patients, (because) we didn’t have any other o...