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Tuolumne County Public Health Sonora, CA – A Tuolumne County event has been linked to a new case of coronavirus. While the infected person is a no...

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Click here to read the full article. Sheltered-at-home, weary people, most of us, are told that life will return to normal once we have a vaccine that protects people from catching the coronavirus. Once so fortified, we shall again be able to join with thousands of others to cheer our football team, invite as many people as we want to weddings, and so on. Bill Gates writes that even “if our best treatments reduce the deaths by less than 95 percent, then we will still need a vaccine before we can go back to normal.” Caroline Chen reported in ProPublica that “Hope and desire for a vaccine to end the global devastation is growing with each passing week.” Not so fast. Dr. Anthony Fauci predicts that “by the beginning of 2021, we hope to have a couple of hundred million doses.” The Washington ...

In this dry stretch of northwestern Arizona, Trump campaign signs dot the desert landscape, and Trump flags fly from the backs of dusty pickup trucks. Last fall, an event called “Trumpstock” outside the town of Kingman featured a Trump impersonator, a pro-Trump rapper and a menu of “M.A.G.A. Subs.” Last month, thousands of people blasted classic rock and circled Lake Havasu in a Trump-themed boat parade. “This whole area is based around people who have the same thing in common,” said Alan Morris, a 36-year-old who participated in the parade. “God, guns and Trump.” Yet now, as the nation confronts the coronavirus pandemic, an economic recession and mass protests against police brutality and racism, some voters in the longtime Republican stronghold of Mohave County have begun to have seco...

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Health officials are now reporting 85 coronavirus (COVID-19) cases linked to an outbreak at an East Lansing bar as of Saturday. A notice was issued on Tuesday that 14 people who visited the restaurant between June 12-20 contracted the virus. The confirmed cases related to the outbreak site grew to 51 on Thursday and then 65 on Friday. Ingham County Health officials say they expect the COVID-19 case numbers tied to this outbreak to continue to increase. Individuals who visited Harper’s restaurant between June 12-20 are being asked to self quarantine for 14 days and monitor themselves for COVID-19 symptoms -- which can develop for up to 14 days after exposure. Bars and restaurants in Michigan were allowed to reopen June 8 with regulations designed to prevent the sprea...

28 additional COVID-19 deaths reported in Massachusetts, 373 new cases Updated: 5:24 PM EDT Jun 27, 2020 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported 28 new COVID-19-related deaths across the state Saturday, bringing the state's total to 8,041.In addition, state health officials reported 373 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases, bringing the total to 108,443.DPH recently began reporting both confirmed cases and probable cases. Of the new cases reported Saturday, 68 are probable. Two of the newly reported deaths fell into the probable category.State health officials said the addition of probable cases and deaths is part of an effort to cont...

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla — About 200 Florida-based doctors, including many from the First Coast, signed an open letter to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry on Saturday , calling for the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville to be postponed and for the use of masks to be mandated in the city. The letter notes that more than 40,000 people are expected to attend the RNC from all over the country. "Allowing this number of people to descend on Jacksonville is unequivocally provocative of disease, predictably harmful, and medically disrespectful to the citizens of this city, much less the rest of the country," the letter said.  In the letter, doctor...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, right, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens as Vice President Pence speaks during a news conference Friday at the Department of Health and Human Services. The U.S. has lost more people to COVID-19 than any other country. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption toggle caption Susan Walsh/AP Dr. Anthony Fauci, right, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens as Vice P...