The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting
205 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances: the Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan, and the Holland America's MS Zaandam cruise ship.
Confirmed infected cases in the USA are 277,161.
Deaths are 7,392. Including a great guy. Frank who I met last fourth of July at a function. RIP Frank.
Confirmed infected cases in the USA are 277,161.
Deaths are 7,392. Including a great guy. Frank who I met last fourth of July at a function. RIP Frank.
The coronavirus was taking lives at a devastating pace in New York on Friday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said, with deaths nearly doubling in just three days, from 1,550 on Tuesday to 2,935 on Friday.
More people in New York were reported on Friday to have died of the virus in the previous 24 hours — 562 — than in the first 27 days of March.
Officials in New York City reported 305 new deaths due to the virus on Friday evening, bringing the city’s death toll to 1,867 in the biggest single-day jump so far.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now advising Americans to voluntarily wear a basic cloth or fabric face mask when they go out to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus.
These non-medical masks can be either purchased online or simply made at home, the CDC says.
After insisting for weeks that healthy people did not need to wear masks in most circumstances, federal health officials decided to change their guidance in response to a growing body of evidence that people who do not appear to be sick are playing an outsized role in the COVID-19 pandemic.
he Washington National Guard is now on the front lines of the COVID-19 battle helping at food banks around the region.
The call-up by the governor came after he received an urgent call for help.
The people at Nourish Pierce County, the state’s largest food bank operator, 75% of their volunteers have left because of their age, medical condition and need to stay home. So, the governor ordered the Guard to step in.
San Francisco, which once championed reusable shopping bags to reduce plastic waste, has banned the environmentally friendly totes in an effort to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
An amendment to the city’s Department of Health’s social-distancing protocols requires that stores restrict customers from bringing their own bags, mugs or other reusable items from home.
How the ban affects city's prohibition on plastic bags is not clear — the ordinance did not address that regulation. In 2007, San Francisco became the first major city in the nation to outlaw single-use plastic bags.
s the coronavirus landed in the U.S. in January, scientists began whispering about an apparent difference from its notorious sibling, the virus that caused SARS: People infected with this one could easily infect others — even if they had no symptoms.
The first reports seemed questionable, and many infectious disease experts didn’t believe them. Two months later, the virus has swarmed across the United States, forcing tens of millions into self-isolation. And now some experts believe that asymptomatic transmission — the passing of a virus from an infected person who feels just fine to others — is driving the pandemic.
Concerns about people without symptoms infecting others were part of the reason county health officers across California, including most of the Bay Area, this week began advising everyone to wear face coverings in public, whether they feel sick or not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a nationwide advisory on Friday.
That’s an abrupt turn from earlier messages from federal and state public health authorities, who had said face masks did not prevent spread of disease and should not be used. On Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health stopped just short of recommending all people wear face coverings, but acknowledged that there “may be a benefit to reducing asymptomatic transmission.”
A record 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, the latest brutal reminder of the toll the coronavirus pandemic is taking on the U.S. economy.
Analysts had predicted a jobless claims total of 3 million to 6 million for the week ending March 28, after huge numbers of businesses across the country were forced to close, leaving millions of Americans out of work.
The climbing death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil, has left morgues overwhelmed, causing some bodies to be wrapped in plastic and left lying in the streets.
Other bodies lie unclaimed in the city's hospitals and clinics as deaths outpace the city's ability to bury COVID-19 victims.
"They're leaving them in the villages, they fall in front of hospitals," Mayor Cynthia Viteri said in a video message last week. "No one wants to recover them."
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