MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) -On Wednesday, the state said 712 tests came back positive out of the total 14,780 test results, which equals 4.8%. Another 14,068 results were negative.This comes one day after the state broke a single day record for tests which came back positive for the virus, at 1,117.54 out of Wisconsin’s 72 counties…
When longtime healthcare worker Chantee Mack requested more than once to work from home due to her fear of contracting COVID-19, she was deemed essential and told no. Eight weeks later, the virus killed her, KQED reports. Mack died after an outbreak at Prince George’s County Health Department where she was employed. At least 20 of…
South Carolina coronavirus update for July 22, 2020 The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced Wednesday 1,654 new confirmed cases and one new probable case of coronavirus, 39 additional confirmed deaths and 26 new probable deaths.This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 74,761, probable cases to 281, confirmed deaths to…
Researchers have created an affordable, reusable version of an N95 mask that could help healthcare professionals as fears reemerge of a shortage in personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic.The group of experts, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass., created a prototype of the mask and found that…
July 22, 2020 | 2:29pm | Updated July 22, 2020 | 3:59pm Enlarge Image Healthcare workers check patients in to a city-run COVID-19 testing location in New York EPA/Justin Lane A new coronavirus mutation has become the most dominant strain of the virus — and is causing outbreaks to spread more quickly across the world,…