Northwell Health rapidly developed a care program to treat more than 150 severely ill COVID-19 patients at home in response to the surge in COVID-19 cases in New York this spring, reports The New York Times.
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President Donald Trump said July 20 he would resume daily media briefings on the COVID-19 pandemic for the first time since late April, reports Politico.
The nation's seven-day average of new cases has increased for 41 consecutive days as of July 19, reports The Washington Post.
COVID-19 deaths are on the rise in 10 U.S. states, according to The New York Times.
The Southern U.S. and West Coast had the highest percentage of specimens testing positive for COVID-19 in the week ending July 11, according to the CDC's weekly COVIDView report.
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Nationwide, COVID-19 deaths have begun to rise, The Washington Post reports. Some experts say the numbers will continue to increase as states, especially those in the South and the West, set new death records daily.
In Nueces County, Texas, 85 infants have tested positive for COVID-19, according to ABC affiliate WCVB-TV.
The National Governors Association is asking the Trump administration to delay its decision to shift hospital reporting requirements for COVID-19 data from the CDC to HHS, CNBC reports.
Arizona and Texas have seen the largest jumps in the number of coronavirus deaths reported per day since June 1, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
Several scientific and medical terms that have entered public discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic are now recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary.