On Oct. 4, people who contracted and survived COVID-19 and families of those who died set up 20,000 empty chairs in a park across from the White House to acknowledge the nearly 210,000 people in the U.S. who have died…
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The percentage of respiratory specimens testing positive for COVID-19 continues to rise in three U.S. regions, while emergency department visits for the virus jumped in two regions, according to the CDC's weekly COVIDView report.
President Donald Trump tweeted Oct. 5 that he is planning to leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he has been receiving treatment for COVID-19 since Oct. 2.
Following a series of revisions, the CDC has updated its website Oct. 5 to include airborne transmission on its "How COVID-19 spreads" page.
Since June, there have been several case reports of a multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults similar to one seen in children during the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC reports. Twenty-seven adults with the condition tested positive for the new coronavirus.
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On Oct. 2, President Donald Trump announced that he and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, tested positive for the new coronavirus. Since then, a slew of government officials have been tested, with some testing positive for COVID-19, The New…
President Donald Trump was prescribed the steroid dexamethasone as a COVID-19 treatment, reports NBC News. The president has already received remdesivir and Regeneron's experimental antibody cocktail as a precautionary measure.
The city of Cleveland released a statement Friday that 11 cases of COVID-19 are linked to planning and set-up for the Sept. 29 presidential debate. The Cleveland Clinic, which hosted the event, specified that the 11 people never accessed the…
More than a third of U.S. adults do not think influenza vaccines work well, a new survey shows.
As Florida lifts restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Miami-Dade County said it will not fully follow the decision, NPR reports.