Coronavirus

Alarming surges in coronavirus cases across the United States South and West raised fears Monday that the outbreak is spiralling out of control and that hard-won progress against the scourge is slipping away because of resistance among many Americans to wearing masks and keeping their distance from others. Confirming predictions that the easing of state…

CLOSE How does coronavirus enter the body, and why does it become fatal for some compared to just a cough or fever for others? USA TODAYThe World Health Organization (WHO) reported the largest single-day increase in new COVID-19 cases Sunday: over 183,000. Brazil and the U.S. showed the biggest jumps – at 54,771 and 36,617 cases, respectively. More than two-thirds of new deaths…

Health officials in Marin County urged employers and residents on Monday to continue taking precautionary measures against the coronavirus after 43 employees at a waste management company tested positive. The Marin Sanitary Service employees who tested positive, most of whom were asymptomatic, were among 288 tested after the county’s contact tracing investigators started communicating with…

Roy St. Warren of Red Rainbow PDX holds a sign asking for "free masks for all," on May 1, 2020, during a May Day car caravan in Portland. The caravan was organized by the Portland May Day Coalition and demanded -- among other things -- PPE and hazard pay for essential workers and a moratorium…

Massachusetts now has the lowest COVID-19 transmission rate of any state in the country, according to a website that has been compiling state data and tracking transmission trends. The current Rt for the coronavirus in Massachusetts — a measure of a virus’s average transmission rate at a given point in time — is estimated at…