Public Health

Deaths attributed to pneumonia, flu or COVID-19 increased the week of July 18 for the first time since mid-April, according to the CDC's weekly COVIDView report. 

New COVID-19 cases stabilized in the U.S. last week after rising over the past month, according to The New York Times.

The prevalence of underlying health issues among U.S. adults in more than 3,000 counties was nearly 50 percent in 2018, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published July 24. 

A COVID-19 patient waited for a Tulsa hospital bed for more than nine hours July 22, according to George Monks, MD, president of the Oklahoma State Medical Association, Tulsa World reports.

The U.S. recorded nearly 70,000 new COVID-19 cases July 23, surpassing 4 million total cases nationwide, according to data from The New York Times. July 23 was also the third consecutive day more than 1,000 virus deaths were recorded.

Below are COVID-19 hospitalization, intensive care capacity and case rates in 20 metropolitan areas in the U.S, according to data gathered by The New York Times.

Researchers "don't yet fully appreciate" what happens after a patient recovers from a serious case of COVID-19, said Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as reported by CNN.

It is very unlikely for someone to become reinfected with COVID-19 after just a few months, health experts told The New York Times.

Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center was one of many hospitals on the East Coast tasked with quickly responding to a surge of COVID-19 patients this spring.

As global COVID-19 cases surpassed the 15 million mark July 22, the U.S. reported more than 1,100 related deaths for the second day in a row, according to The New York Times.