Below are 24 updates from the six states hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic:
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The global COVID-19 case count is expected to surpass 2 million, with 1,934,583 cases reported as of 8:30 a.m. CDT April 14. The U.S. case count is the highest in the world, with 582,594 COVID-19 cases and 23,649 deaths reported.
Many physicians are starting to share clinical insights they learned while working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, reports The New York Times.
COVID-19 appears to be affecting black Americans at a disproportionately high rate, with the majority of black counties reporting triple the infection rate and nearly six times the rate of deaths as majority white counties, according to an early analysis…
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is sending two teams of clinicians to assist the coronavirus response in New York this week.
Women across the U.S. have had to postpone their fertility treatments indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, NPR reports.
Contact tracing — the process by which the people who have had contact with an infected patient are identified — will be key during the next stage of the coronavirus pandemic, and organizations are answering the call to scale contact…
Health officials confirmed a new Ebola case in the Democratic Republic of Congo April 10, just three days before the country was poised to officially declare an end to the outbreak, reports STAT.
COVID-19 is rapidly sickening San Francisco's homeless population, posing numerous care obstacles for hospitals and physicians, reports STAT.
Below are 23 updates from the six states hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic: