The World Health Organization said the virus, found in at least 56 countries so far, poses a “very high” global risk. But the White House accused the media of ...
It is not a question of whether a pandemic will visit us — it is a question of when. With the spread of the coronavirus worldwide, the more appropriate question ...
California reported its second case of community transmission of the coronavirus Friday, a 65-year-old woman in Santa Clara County who has no known history ...
GENEVA/BEIJING (Reuters) - The rapid spread of the coronavirus increased fears of a pandemic on Friday, with six countries reporting their first cases and the ...
The World Health Organization said China is no longer the "greatest concern" in the rapidly-spreading coronavirus outbreak as the focus now shifts to the "rest of ...
Topline: The World Health Organization declined to call the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic Friday, but raised the global risk level for the disease from 'high' to ...
For my fourth-grade science fair project, I tested different soaps to see which ones were the most effective at keeping my hands clean. Now, nearly 20 years later ...
When it comes to novel coronavirus protection, face masks are futile. There isn't a vaccine yet. So the best way to prevent transmission of the novel coronavirus ...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. is inevitable but there are steps ...
On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control announced a suspected case of COVID19 in a patient who met none of the screening criteria for the disease.
The new coronavirus that originated in China has spread globally, kiling thousands and infecting tens of thousands more. Here is everything Americans need to ...
The fight to contain the coronavirus entered an alarming new phase on Thursday as caseloads soared in Europe and the Middle East, and health officials in the ...
Governor Newsom addresses California's first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus with an unknown origin in a Bay Area woman being treated at UC Davis ...
The new coronavirus that has claimed nearly 3,000 lives and spread to almost 50 countries was sequenced in Chinese labs — and found to be similar to SARS ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon has its first presumed case of novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. The person who is believed to be infected lives in ...
A Washington County teacher is sick with the first presumptive case of the new coronavirus in the state, Oregon health officials said Friday. The person tested ...
(Update: Washington County resident works at school in Clackamas County). PORTLAND, Ore.—The Oregon Health Authority late Friday confirmed its first, ...
Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesA view of UC Davis Medical Center on February 27, 2020 in Sacramento, California.A confirmed coronavirus patient in California.
“It is highly likely that future SARS or MERS-like coronavirus. outbreaks will originate from bats, and there is an increased probability that this will occur in China” ...
Scientists around the world are racing to understand COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that has infected more than 82,000 people worldwide and killed 2,817 ...
As a new coronavirus spreads quickly around the world, U.S. health officials say they are "aggressively" assessing how long it can survive on surfaces to better ...
Hundreds of Salt Lake City teachers walked out of school Friday and marched to the Capitol to ask for more education funding. The rally downtown was led by ...
A patient who tested positive for coronavirus will be treated at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray at the request of the Centers for Disease Control and ...
SALT LAKE CITY — As the novel coronavirus has spread to every continent except Antartica, colleges and K-12 schools in Utah are monitoring local health ...
With the stock market sinking and national health experts warning that a new strain of coronavirus, manifest as COVID-19, is close to invading U.S. shores, what ...
The US State Department on Friday raised its travel advisory for Italy to the second-highest-level warning, Level 3: Reconsider Travel, due to the novel ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging all U.S. residents to not travel to Italy unless absolutely necessary, given the outbreak of COVID-19.
CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said there's a simple step Americans can take to help in the fight against the coronavirus: Stop buying high-tech N95 respirator ...
Sixty people in the United States have been diagnosed with coronavirus. The CDC released an infographic that showed shaving your beard can help protect ...
Patients' facial hair may affect their safety when it comes to the coronavirus—but it depends on what kind of mustache, beard, or other whiskers you're sporting.
Coinciding with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warning Americans to prepare for the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) — with “the expectation that ...
Facial hair may be in these days, but like most things, what looks good isn't necessarily good for you. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says ...
Countries around the world are scrambling to respond to the influx of new novel coronavirus cases outside of China. Here is how the situation unfolded Friday.
The FDA announced it's been alerted to the first manufacturing shortage of an unnamed drug, due to a viral outbreak that began in China and has now reached ...
Risk Of Coronavirus In Arlington Remains Low - Arlington, MA - While the risk to the public is low, a top CDC official said this week it's only a matter of time ...
Scientists can't tell yet how deadly the new virus that's spreading around the globe really is — and deepening the mystery, how the fatality rate differs even within ...
While there are no cases of the coronavirus reported in the state of Florida, school districts in Central Florida have started to issue communications to parents ...
SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. -- The family member of a Bothell High School staffer who was placed into quarantine for possible coronavirus, and resulted in ...
Bothell High School outside Seattle was closed for cleaning on Thursday and Friday after a staff member's relative was quarantined and tested for the novel ...
Bothell Patient Tests Negative For Coronavirus - Shoreline-Lake Forest Park, WA - Health officials have ruled out the COVID-19 virus after an illness prompted a ...
From the streets of Beijing to Milan Fashion Week, people around the world are turning to protective masks and respirators to try and reduce the risk of infection ...
Health experts say most surgical masks don't really protect you from getting a virus; they're designed to protect others from getting a virus from you.
Local stores are selling out of face masks amid concerns over the coronavirus, even as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says healthy people ...
Shelves that usually display face masks at several local pharmacies were cleared out as officials warned the coronavirus is getting closer to spreading in the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials warned Tuesday that the burgeoning coronavirus is certain to spread more widely in the country at some point, even as ...
The coronavirus spread further on Friday, with cases reported for the first time in six countries across three continents, battering markets and leading the World ...
*Content* Warning: This letter discusses sensitive topics, including eating disorders. To the Editor: You are beautiful. I haven't met you, spoken to you, seen the ...
I was 11 when my eating disorder began, dismantling my self-worth as it progressed. My anorexia was all-consuming. I meticulously recorded every bite, calorie ...
Eating disorders are deeply personal, but one thing applies across the board – they don't discriminate. "Anyone can get an eating disorder," said Damola ...
The number of local influenza deaths increased to 74 after 11 additional fatalities were reported last week, the County Health and Human Services Agency ...
CORONAVIRUS has killed 2858 worldwide, as reported by the World Health Organisation (WHO). It's not even been three months since the outbreak began, ...
Lenovo is getting hit hard in China while IBM and Epic Games are canceling trips to San Francisco. Companies across the Triangle are making plans to ...
As Coronavirus Disease 2019 continues to attract national attention, North Carolina officials and Charlotte doctors say risk to residents is low, but area ...
North Carolina officials' message to residents and businesses about COVID-19, better known as the novel coronavirus: If you haven't started thinking about it, ...
WASHINGTON — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday downplayed a fellow CDC official's warning that spread of the ...
Federal health officials are trying to reassure the public the risk of contracting coronavirus is low. The director of the Centers of Disease Control said there is no ...
Public health officials investigating how Individual being treated at Sacramento hospital contracted COVID-19. Case has no known ties to travelers from China, ...
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Officials from The Centers for Disease Control testified before a congressional committee Thursday to update lawmakers on the ...
More than 60 coronavirus cases have been identified in the US. Doctors and other experts are convinced there could be more novel coronavirus cases in the ...
(Reuters) - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert Redfield told the U.S. Congress on Thursday that his agency is aggressively ...
Israeli researchers scrambling to develop a coronavirus vaccine say it could be ready in just three weeks – and available for use within 90 days, according to ...
Israeli scientists are reportedly only a few weeks away from having developed the first vaccine to combat the coronavirus, which originated in China, and could ...
The head of a research institute in Israel has said its scientists are "weeks" away from developing a vaccine against the deadly new coronavirus which causes ...
Israel is only weeks away from developing a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, according to its science and technology minister. The Jerusalem Post ...
An Israeli firm said Thursday it has developed a kit to test for the coronavirus, sending its stocks soaring as the world hunts for an effective way to confirm who is ...
"I hope it's not that bad, but we should assume it will be until we know otherwise," Gates wrote in an article published Friday in The New England Journal of ...
Bill Gates weighed in on the novel coronavirus Friday morning with a blog post in which he called on world leaders to not only address the current problem but ...
Topline: Bill Gates wrote in a Friday op-ed that in order to stop pandemics, governments and the private sector should invest billions, calling it “a bargain” in ...
While governments and citizens across the globe prepare and react in assorted way to various stages of the coronavirus pandemic, Bill Gates says there “is no ...
Amarillo city officials are warning people to take precautions to protect against the recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus or Covid-19 in the United States.
Panhandle Community Services is joining forces with Atmos Energy to help those who may be struggling to pay their gas bill. Those needing help can join ...
Health officials with the city of Amarillo and Texas Tech University held a press conference to say they're monitoring the Coronavirus outbreak and are in ...
Texas Tech officials gave an update Friday on the progress of opening their Amarillo vet school in the fall of 2021. The school's Board of Regents approved $90 ...
Amarillo police and fire units are working a crash on the downtown interchange. Reports from the scene indicate at lease one person was being placed into an ...
In 1999, US health officials warned that the health of millions of Americans was being imperiled by a "growing obesity epidemic." Twenty years later, it appears ...
As more Americans turn to surgery to lose weight, more of them are also returning for a second operation because the first isn't working. Last year, an estimated ...
NEW YORK — About 4 in 10 American adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 10 is severely so, government researchers said Thursday. The Centers for Disease ...
American obesity rates have risen sharply in the last two decades according to a study released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Health officials are advising residents make preparations for the inevitable arrival of the coronavirus in Minnesota. While there have been no confirmed cases ...
Minnesota might not have a confirmed case of a novel coronavirus infection today — or even in the days or weeks to come — but state health officials said ...
As Minnesota school officials scramble to comply with federal and state guidance to prepare for a COVID-19 outbreak, some say their experience with extreme ...
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (WMBD) — A patient at BJC HealthCare is being tested for the Coronavirus. Belleville Memorial Hospital has referred a patient to the Illinois ...
A patient who checked into Belleville Memorial Hospital is being tested for coronavirus. The hospital, which is part of the BJC HealthCare system, has.
In this week's roundup of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week, we focus on false and misleading reports spreading online ...
State and local officials are ramping up coronavirus preparation, despite a continued low risk to the public, as hundreds of Bay State residents remain under ...
Thousands in California and Massachusetts are being monitored for coronavirus in preparation for an outbreak in the U.S., officials from each state have ...
The city of Boston is monitoring 34 people for symptoms of the coronavirus, including Massachusetts' only confirmed case so far, health officials said...
Boston health officials continue to insist the risk is low for major coronavirus — but they say they continue to plan for a "worst case scenario" and have 34 people ...
A pair of Canadian researchers, one with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, the other Vancouver Coastal Health, has made headlines ...
Drug overdoses can be life-threatening, but for two women who accidentally took massive hits of LSD, the experience was life changing — and in a good way.
Woman drops 550 times the typical recreation dose of LSD. After hours of vomiting and blacking out, she woke up to discover her chronic foot pain was gone.
The Solano County Public Health officials confirmed that the county has additional confirmed cases of novel coronavirus from Travis Air Force base evacuees.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Additional cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in the Bay Area counties of Solano and Santa Clara, officials said Friday.
Solano County is now responsible for the care of two additional people with confirmed novel coronavirus cases. Santa Clara County health officials also ...
Weymouth High Staff Member Quarantined - Weymouth, MA - Weymouth Superintendent Jennifer Curtis Whipple informed staff and parents the staffer reported ...
Another American Diamond Princess cruise ship evacuee tested positive for the new coronavirus and was transferred to a health center in Nebraska, increasing ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Officials say the condition of two of the people who tested positive for COVID-19 in Omaha after being evacuated from a cruise ship in ...
(NBC News) -- Officials say for the second time this week, a person who has tested positive for coronavirus after being evacuated from a cruise ship in Japan will ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — "I love you. I kissed her, 'mommy loves you," said Tresheena Redd. "You're my baby, my heart, my angel, my everything." Aasiyha ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – We are still in the thick of the flu season. In the last week, four new flu deaths were recorded in Kern County. One of those four, ...
Eleven people in Kern County are being monitored for the highly contagious coronavirus but they are considered to be at low-risk of being carriers, according to ...
Kern County Public Health Officials have confirmed there have been 11 flu-related deaths here in Kern County. Last year, there were nine flu-related deaths ...
MADISON -- The Dane County resident who tested positive for coronavirus on Feb. 5 has now had two negative tests and has been released from isolation, ...
