Federal assistance is being activated and deployed to the Houston region, including the Department of Defense's Urban Area Medical Task Force and a disaster medical assistance team from HHS, as area hospitals face the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the state. 

The likelihood of experiencing symptoms upon contracting COVID-19 may increase with age, a new study found.

An activewear company in Portland is on a mission to give every American a free face mask during the pandemic, according to The Washington Post.

Political risk experts are warning that the race to find a vaccine for COVID-19 and nationalism surrounding that search could ultimately hurt public health and the economy, CNBC reports.

A new survey shows that more than one-third of Americans say they know someone outside of their immediate circle who has contracted COVID-19, according to USA Today.

The U.S. saw a record single-day increase in COVID-19 cases for the second time this week, reporting more than 63,000 new cases July 9, according to Becker's analysis of data from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University.

West Virginia has the highest COVID-19 reproduction rate, while Maine has the lowest, according to rt.live. 

The World Health Organization has said the novel coronavirus can linger in the air indoors.

The month a baby is born could influence the child's likelihood of getting the flu shot, and therefore the flu itself, a study published July 9 in The New England Journal of Medicine hypothesizes.

The World Health Organization is holding an "infodemiology" conference to develop evidence-based practices to detect and respond to mis-and disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. had another record-setting day July 8, with 62,751 new COVID-19 infections reported, according to The Washington Post. The nation has reported new case records for five of the last nine days, according to The New York Times. 

New Jersey residents will be required to wear face masks while outside under a new executive order that Gov. Phil Murphy said he will sign July 8, according to NJ.com.

The rise in zoonotic diseases, which jump from animals to humans, is driven by the degradation of the natural environment, according to a new United Nations report.

The U.S. set another daily case record, with about 60,000 new COVID-19 infections confirmed July 7. On July 8, the total number of cases reported in the U.S. surpassed 3 million.

The Trump administration has submitted a notice to withdraw from the World Health Organization by July 6, 2021, a senior administration official told CNBC.

Officials with the World Health Organization have acknowledged "emerging evidence" about the airborne spread of COVID-19 during a July 7 media briefing.

The U.S. is nearing another COVID-19 milestone: nearly 3 million COVID-19 cases have been reported, less than a month after hitting 2 million cases June 10.

China has reported one case of bubonic plague in northern Inner Mongolia, Bloomberg reports.

A Florida resident has contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba, the Florida Department of Health confirmed July 3. 

The daily global COVID-19 case count hit an all-time high July 4, with 212,326 new infections reported, according to data from the World Health Organization cited by NBC News. The previous record had been 190,566 daily cases, set June 28.