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A peer-reviewed study published this week that examined the cases of coronavirus patients in China during different points in their infections provides evidence that — as has been suspected — the virus is highly contagious in asymptomatic or presymptomatic people, moreso than after symptoms set in. The study's publication may have played a role in…

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First responders load a patient into an ambulance from a nursing home where multiple people have contracted COVID-19 on April 17, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Medical research findings "strongly support" the possibility that exercise can prevent or at least reduce the severity of acute respiratory distress syndrome. Scott Eisen/Getty Regular exercise can possibly prevent coronavirus patients…

Lots of excitement about this result on social media today, although there are two ways to look at it. One is the optimistic way, which I’ve highlighted in the headline. If the number of Americans who’ve had COVID is 50 to 85 times the number of confirmed cases then we’re further along towards herd immunity…

(WBNG) --According to a study done by Cornell University, Broome County is the 7th most vulnerable county in New York to the coronavirus per demographic. The study takes in consideration the percentage living in a nursing home, jail or prisons, households than span three generation of families, and people with disabilities. Additionally, Broome County is…