Hundreds of people celebrated the July 4 weekend at a Michigan lake. Now some have Covid-19
After revelers celebrated the Fourth of July at a Michigan lake, some started testing positive for Covid-19 — prompting health officials to…
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Las Palmas Del Sol continues diverting some patients amid ‘surge’ in virus hospitalizations
UPDATE: Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare facilities in El Paso continued to divert some patients on Sunday as the hospital group dealt with an ongoing…
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Hatch Chile Festival canceled for 1st time in history due to pandemic
HATCH, New Mexico — The coronavirus pandemic has canceled yet another beloved New Mexico annual event: the 2020 Hatch Chile Festival. Organizers…
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New Mexico tops 15,000 virus cases as infections are reported at 2 more Las Cruces nursing homes
SANTA FE, New Mexico — State health officials on Sunday reported two more coronavirus deaths and 262 new confirmed cases. The additional deaths…
Continue Reading Hospitals in Covid-19 hotspots are running out of remdesivir
Dr. Eliot Godofsky doesn’t have a single dose of remdesivir for his Covid-19 patients in South Florida. Hundreds of miles away in North…
Continue Reading Cell phone data show Americans hit the road over July 4, even as coronavirus surged
After Memorial Day, as the United States began to reopen, coronavirus cases began to rise. The number of hospitalizations had risen in at least a…
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‘Virus spreading like wildfire’: El Paso sets new records for cases, hospitalizations and ICU use
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s County’s top doctor declared Sunday morning that the coronavirus is “spreading like wildfire” as he announced…
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Florida woman took dishwashing job so she could visit husband with Alzheimer’s during pandemic
Mary Daniel visited her husband Steve every day at his Florida memory care center until they stopped allowing visitors in March because of the…
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Covid-19 continues its grim record-setting pace in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — The coronavirus continues to cut its record-setting swath through Texas as state officials reported a record 10,351 new cases for…
Continue Reading Johns Hopkins’ dashboard: The people behind the pandemic’s most visited site
If the year 2020 is good for anything, it’s the lesson that during a crisis, anyone who builds a better mousetrap will find the world beating a…
Continue Reading Otero County woman’s death among 4 more in New Mexico; Dona Ana County has record new case week
SANTA FE, New Mexico — An Otero County woman was among four new coronavirus deaths in New Mexico on Saturday as the state’s death toll rose to 543.…
Continue Reading A family is trying to raise over $2 million to give their baby a gene therapy treatment to save her life
The family of a 3-month-old girl is trying to raise over $2 million for a one-time gene therapy treatment that may be their daughter’s only…
Continue Reading Expert warns the US is approaching ‘one of the most unstable times in the history of our country’
With rising Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations sending many states backward in their reopening plans, one health expert warns that if the US…
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Texas morgues filling up, refrigerated trailers sought by some counties to hold bodies
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas –More than 3,000 Texans have now died from the coronavirus and counties in the state are preparing for even more deaths by…
Continue Reading 353 new El Paso virus cases; over 2,100 in a week, tops 9,000 total
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso public health officials reported 353 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, racking up a weekly total of more than 2,100 and a…
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Los Angeles Apparel factory ordered closed after over 300 coronavirus cases and 4 deaths
A garment manufacturer in downtown Los Angeles with over 300 confirmed coronavirus cases among employees has been ordered closed after an…
Continue Reading ‘The tsunami is here’: Texas surpasses 10,000 patients in hospitals for virus
AUSTIN, Texas — On Friday, Texas surpassed 10,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients for the first time, capping a week of grim markers that also…
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Sun Metro taking additional virus prevention steps after ABC-7 goes on a bus ride
EL PASO, Texas — The director for Sun Metro, El Paso’s mass transportation agency, says bus drivers should tell riders they either need…
Continue Reading Florida man and his sons charged with selling toxic chemical as a coronavirus cure to thousands
Three months after President Donald Trump suggested ingesting disinfectants as a treatment for coronavirus, a Florida man and his three sons are…
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‘I think I made a mistake’: 30-year-old Texan dies at hospital after attending Covid-19 ‘hoax’ party
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – A doctor from Methodist Hospital in San Antonio said a young man died after attending a Covid-19 party, according to ABC…
Continue Reading 68% of a New York clinic’s patients test positive for coronavirus antibodies
New data suggests that working-class and minority neighborhoods hit hardest by coronavirus in the borough of Queens in New York are now…
Continue Reading Florida publicly discloses hospitalizations as the US breaks another case record
Another record-setting day of Covid-19 cases across the US came with a spotlight on Florida, which publicly released its number of coronavirus…
Continue Reading How coronavirus affects the entire body
Coronavirus damages not only the lungs, but the kidneys, liver, heart, brain and nervous system, skin and gastrointestinal tract, doctors said Friday…
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Gov. Abbott warns of Texas ‘lockdown’ coming next if virus spread doesn’t slow
LUBBOCK, Texas — With Texas continuing to break records for new coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations this week, Gov. Greg…
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Otero Prison inmate among 6 more state virus deaths; Doña Ana County has 44 of state’s 301 new cases
SANTA FE, New Mexico — An Otero County Prison inmate’s death was one six new coronavirus deaths reported in New Mexico on Friday, state health…
Continue Reading More evidence emerges that a TB vaccine might help fight coronavirus
More research emerged this week in potential support of using the tuberculosis vaccine Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) as a tool in the fight against…
Continue Reading 6-week-old Texas infant dies from coronavirus
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Corpus Christi city councilman said he was notified Friday by the local health district of a Covid-19 related death of a…
Continue Reading New WHO report says airborne coronavirus transmission ‘cannot be ruled out’ in outbreaks in some indoor settings
The World Health Organization on Thursday released a new scientific report detailing how the coronavirus can pass from one person to the next —…
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Kazakhstan denies Chinese government report that country has ‘unknown pneumonia’ outbreak more deadly than Covid-19
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Authorities in Kazakhstan have denied a report published by Chinese officials that the country is experiencing an outbreak…
Continue Reading WHO chief blasts ‘lack of leadership’ and calls for global unity as coronavirus cases mount worldwide
The director-general of the World Health Organization has condemned a “lack of leadership” in fighting the coronavirus pandemic and made…
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