Coronavirus

July 4, 2020Updated 1:09 p.m. ETHOUSTON — Over the past week, Dr. Aric Bakshy, an emergency physician at Houston Methodist, had to decide which coronavirus patients he should admit to the increasingly busy hospital and which he could safely send home.To discuss questions like these, he has turned to doctors at hospitals where he trained…

Xerxes Wilson, Delaware News Journal Published 6:00 p.m. ET July 3, 2020 | Updated 8:19 a.m. ET July 4, 2020Delaware announced 192 additional cases of coronavirus on Friday, continuing the trend of relatively large daily increases compared with two weeks ago heading into the July Fourth holiday.Of those, 159 positive cases were reported on Thursday while 33…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global coronavirus cases exceeded 11 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease that has killed more than half a million people in seven months. The number of cases is more than double the figure for severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to…

FILE PHOTO: A large mask hangs on the face of a lion statue standing outside of the main branch of the New York Public Library in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., July 1, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson(Reuters) - The United States reported more than 53,000 new COVID-19 cases on Friday and several states…

once again on the rise. States like Arizona, Florida and Texas are seeing some of their highest numbers to date, and as the nation hurtles further into summer, the surge shows few signs of stopping.And yet the virus appears to be killing fewer of the people it infects. In April and May, Covid-19, the disease…