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Healthcare workers move a patient in the Covid-19 Unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas Thursday, July 2, 2020.Mark Felix | Getty ImagesHospitals and states are scrambling to adopt a new national Covid-19 data reporting system hastily implemented by the Trump administration last week that has left some, mostly rural, states in the…

The United States saw another record-breaking day on Friday with 66,600 new coronavirus cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That's up from the previous daily record of 63,200 cases on Thursday and marks the third time in less than a week the country has hit an all-time high for new, confirmed infections. The U.S. has…

Contact tracers at work in a Houston contact tracing facility. | AP Photo/David J. Phillip Severe shortages of public health workers to track disease spread helped fuel coronavirus spikes in states like Florida, Texas and Arizona and could make it harder to stamp out new hot spots. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has about 10 percent…

(Reuters) - It wasn’t easy to build a COVID-19 antibody test during Illinois’ statewide lockdown. FILE PHOTO: Northwestern University Professor Thomas McDade inspects a 96-well plate used to quantify coronavirus disease (COVID-19) IgG antibodies in dried blood spot samples at the Laboratory for Human Biology Research, Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois,…

Hospitals are scrambling for dialysis machines amid the surge of COVID-19 patients experiencing kidney failure, according to the New York Times.Those suffering from severe illness from COVID-19 experience differing levels of organ failure.Kidney specialists estimate that 20 to 40 percent of patients in intensive care for complications associated with a COVID-19 infection suffered kidney failure…