Months into a pandemic that has caused more than 500,000 deaths worldwide, scientists are still trying to answer crucial questions about the coronavirus.Chief among them: Everything about asymptomatic patients.People who contracted COVID-19 but did not get sick and had no symptoms have been one of the most confounding factors of the ongoing public health emergency.…
June 29, 2020 2:26 PM Logan Rude Posted: June 29, 2020 2:26 PM Updated: June 29, 2020 2:28 PM MADISON, Wis. — Roughly 30% of Wisconsin counties are experiencing a high level of COVID-19 activity, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The new metric, which is a summary based on each county’s number…
Two U.S. research groups have reported finding nearly 300 cases of an alarming apparent side effect of Covid-19 in children, a condition called multisystem inflammation syndrome, or MIS-C. While researchers have previously reported on the condition, the papers mark the first attempt to measure how frequently the side effect occurs and how it affects children…
Image copyright Getty Images A new strain of flu that has the potential to become pandemic has been identified in China by scientists. It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans, they say. The researchers are concerned that it could mutate further so that it can spread easily from person to…
LEADER, KCCI 8 NEWS AT NOON. RHEYA: GOOD AFTERNOON. THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS REPORTING NEARLY 300 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES. THAT BRINGS THE STATE WIDE TOTAL TO MORE THAN 28,000. MORE THAN 700 PEOPLE HAVE DIED. MORE THAN 17,000 IOWANS HAVE RECOVERED. IOWA REACHED ANOTHER MILESTONE, MORE THAN 300,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR COVI…