[ad_1] ROME (AP) – As the world says goodbye – or good riddance – to 2020, a year in which the pandemic has caused hardship and suffering for billions of people, some of those who have battled the virus in the front row fought even as the stopwatch passed midnight. At the Casalpalocco Covid 3 … Read more
[ad_1] What there is to know California on Thursday became the third state to exceed 25,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, behind New York with nearly 38,000 deaths and Texas with more than 27,000, according to a count from Johns Hopkins University. San Diego County said it has confirmed a total … Read more
[ad_1] The new variant of SARS-CoV-2, believed to have originated in the UK, is growing rapidly and affecting a greater proportion of people under the age of 20, according to a study. A collaborative team of researchers from Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh, Public Health England, Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Birmingham and the … Read more
[ad_1] DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – The Iowa Department of Public Health reported a total of 575 hospitalizations related to COVID-19 in the state on Friday. This number is down 25 from yesterday. Starting at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, intensive care and ventilator use is also on the decline. The state reported 117 intensive care … Read more
[ad_1] While humans are still waiting for a vaccine with a coronavirus vaccine, Colorado’s endangered black-footed ferrets have already been vaccinated. One hundred and twenty ferrets (Mustela nigripes) – once considered to be completely extinct – have been vaccinated with an experimental veterinary vaccine COVID-19, according to the Associated Press. Ferrets are very likely to … Read more
[ad_1] On the last day of 2020, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department on Thursday reported a daily record of 396 new cases of COVID-19 and listed three more deaths linked to the virus. The county’s previous one-day record of new daily COVID-19 cases, set on December 14, came when the public health department … Read more
[ad_1] This story will be updated. Four more Mainers have died as health officials reported 700 new cases of the coronavirus statewide on Friday. Friday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 24,901, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s compared to 24,201 Thursday. Of those, 21,144 … Read more
[ad_1] A Wisconsin pharmacist has been arrested after it emerged that a hospital worker had deliberately spoiled hundreds of doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a report. Although authorities have not named the suspect, records show that a licensed pharmacist, Steven Brandenburg, 46, was arrested in the Ozaukee County Jail on Thursday, the Milwaukee … Read more
[ad_1] EDITOR’S NOTE: The daily numbers we report do not match the numbers the state reports for each day. Every day at 10 a.m., we take the previous day’s digits from 10 a.m. and subtract them with the current state digits at 10 a.m. For Black Hawk and Linn counties, we are reporting numbers from … Read more
[ad_1] By PTI NEW DELHI: There is no clinical evidence to prove that low levels of vitamin D lead to severe symptoms of COVID-19, but there is a clear link between the ‘sunshine vitamin’ and immune responses to disease, say experts as the pandemic spreads across the world and concerns rise over a new mutant … Read more