Health

The coronavirus proved substantially deadlier to people of color under the age of 65 than to their white counterparts in the early days of the pandemic, an in-depth analysis released Friday found.The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the agency’s most comprehensive analysis of the demographics of those who died of…

Latino residents of Los Angeles County are contracting the coronavirus at a much faster pace than other racial and ethnic groups, and are twice as likely to have contracted the virus than white residents. “Latinx people are more than twice as likely as people who are white to be infected with the virus. And they…

By HNN Staff | July 10, 2020 at 1:51 PM HST - Updated July 10 at 1:52 PM HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Contact tracing by the Dept. of Health has uncovered a total of 17 cases to-date involving two Oahu commercial gym facilities. DOH says cases in both gyms are linked to one person who…

Researchers at the University of Houston claimed to have designed a special air filter that can trap the novel coronavirus and blast it with heat to kill the disease on contact.Dr. Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center of Superconductivity at UH, is the brains behind the project, the Houston Chronicle reported.Ren worked with Medistar CEO Monzer…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The Springfield-Greene County Health Department has notified the public of potential community exposures from six new COVID-19 cases.Five of the new cases reside in Greene County and one resides in another jurisdiction.Health officials shared the following timeline of potential exposures from the cases:Saturday, June 27: Visited Walmart Neighborhood Market at 3536 W…