Coronavirus

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) appears to have recently added three new symptoms of the novel coronavirus to its ongoing list.Congestion or runny nose, nausea, and diarrhea were added, joining the federal agency's list that already included fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches,…

The federal government sent coronavirus stimulus checks to more than one million dead people, totaling $1.4 billion in bogus payments, according to a new audit Thursday. IRS lawyers said the way the law was written, the agency didn’t have the power to stop payments to people who filed 2018 or 2019 tax returns, even if…

Image copyright Getty Images More than 100,000 people in England have been asked to self-isolate by contact tracers in the past three weeks to contain coronavirus, data shows.The individuals have all had close contact with infected people and have now been told to stay at home by the new NHS Test and Trace service.But the…

Soweto, South Africa — Britain's Prince William went to Oxford University on Wednesday to meet patients taking part in a human trial of a promising coronavirus vaccine. But with cases of COVID-19 plummeting in England, researchers fear the trial involving 10,000 people may not yield results conclusive enough to prove the vaccine works. They needed…

An independent report on the coronavirus outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home describes “the opposite of infection control,” as administrators combined wards of infected and uninfected patients.Flags were planted outside the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, where dozens of veterans died during a coronavirus outbreak this spring.Credit...Brian Snyder/ReutersJune 24, 2020BOSTON — An investigation of 76 deaths linked…