North Dakota became the 35th U.S. state to require face coverings be worn in public, as governors across the country grapple with a surge in coronavirus infections that threatens to swamp their healthcare systems.
The likelihood that a coronavirus infection will prove fatal dropped by nearly a third since April due to improved treatment, researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) said.
Chicago’s mayor issued a month-long stay-at-home advisory, and Detroit’s public schools called a halt to in-person instruction to curb the spread of the coronavirus as more than a dozen U.S. states reported a doubling of new Covid-19 cases in the last two weeks.
The United States continued to notch up grim records while battling through the coronavirus pandemic, with a worsening outbreak in the northeastern part of the country adding pressure on top of an already-reeling Midwest.
COVID-19 cases still surging in the Americas, the WHO warns BRASILIA (Reuters) – COVID-19 cases are still surging in the Americas, averaging 150,000 a day in last week, the World […]
The United States reported a record number of new Covid-19 cases for the seventh day in a row, according to a Reuters tally, while the number of deaths surged to their highest daily count since August.
U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they are unlikely to strike down the Obamacare healthcare law in a legal challenge brought by Texas and 17 other Republican-governed states and joined by President Donald Trump’s administration.
U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar said if pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. submits interim Covid-19 vaccine to health regulators as quickly as expected, the U.S. government anticipates the beginning of vaccinating Americans in December.
There were more than 59,000 Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the United States on Nov. 9, the country’s highest number ever of in-patients being treated for the disease, with new infections at record levels for the sixth consecutive day.
The coronavirus pandemic raged across the United States as the country elected a new president, with the daily number of new infections hitting record highs for four straight days.
