Many community hospitals in Southern California are struggling to treat a large influx of COVID-19 patients from Mexico, according to The Washington Post.
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A possible "second peak" of coronavirus infections could be worse than the first, resulting in a sharp spike in COVID-19 cases and reaching a new high of cases and preventable deaths, according to CNN.
Researchers in the United Kingdom have discovered blood markers for the mysterious inflammatory condition among children that is potentially linked to COVID-19, according to NBC News.
COVID-19 will likely persist for decades, even after a vaccine is created and widely disseminated, experts told The Washington Post.
Reported U.S. deaths related to COVID-19 have surpassed 100,000, with 100,442 deaths and 1,699,933 COVID-19 cases reported as of 7:45 a.m. CDT May 28. Globally, there have been 5,716,570 reported cases and 356,131 deaths, while 2,367,292 have recovered.
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Only about half of Americans say that if a vaccine against the new coronavirus becomes available, they would get vaccinated, a new poll shows.
The WHO Foundation, a legally separate entity from the World Health Organization, was created to broaden WHO's donor base and achieve sustainable and predictable funding.
It is still unclear whether people previously exposed or infected with the novel coronavirus have immunity against reinfection, officials with the World Health Organization said during a May 26 daily news briefing.
Latinos in major cities such as New York and Los Angeles are contracting COVID-19 at an alarmingly high rate, reports The Washington Post.
COVID-19 is still placing extreme stress on New York City's healthcare system even though the rate of new cases is falling, a nurse who recently volunteered on the front lines told The Davis Enterprise.