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As South Floridians eat at restaurants, shop for groceries and try to live normal lives during the pandemic, many are bringing coronavirus back home, spreading it to family members before their symptoms arise. As many as 80% of the Broward County residents who got COVID-19 in recent weeks likely caught it from someone they live…

Three staff members at Quincy Public Schools have tested positive for COVID-19, including two from the summer school program, officials said in a letter to the community Friday. Special education staff teaching at North Quincy High School and the Della Chiesa Early Childhood Center informed administrators that they had tested positive on July 11 and…

July 18, 2020 | 9:06am | Updated July 18, 2020 | 9:18am Enlarge Image Coronavirus swab samples sit in a testing laboratory in Glasgow, Scotland. Jane Barlow/Pool via Getty Images The coronavirus has six strains and each can be identified by a cluster of symptoms that could help doctors identify patients with severe cases, a…

FILE PHOTO: Blood samples from patients infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are prepared for analysis in the Blood Processing Lab in the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, in Cambridge, Britain May 21, 2020. Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool via REUTERS/File PhotoLONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Saturday it was pausing its daily update of…

To ease pressure on hospitals, Northwell Health brought medical workers, oxygen tanks and intravenous equipment into patients’ homes. Now Florida is taking cues.When Joan Murray of Westbury, N.Y., a registered nurse, came down with Covid-19, she insisted on fighting the illness at home. “The last place I wanted to be was the hospital,” she said.Credit...Johnny…