Coronavirus

long-struggling Marshall County.The revelation about the teen on a ventilator in Huntsville indicates COVID-19 is not restricted to attacking the older population even as the average age of a COVID hospital patient is in the mid-50s, Spillers said.“Young people are not immune,” Spillers said. “This is the first teenager we’ve had in ICU, the youngest…

Los Angeles County health officials issued a dire warning Monday that conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic are deteriorating rapidly and the highly contagious virus is spreading swiftly in the nation’s most populous county.They said they are now faced with one of their biggest fears: that the reopening of L.A. County would coincide with sudden jumps…

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.…

as we see new cases rising and we're tracking them very carefully. There may be a tendency among the American people to think that we are. We are back to that place that we were two months ago. The reality is we're in a much better place. But yesterday we saw more new cases in…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly added three new symptoms of coronavirus to its list. Congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting and diarrhea are now considered symptoms of COVID-19, according to the nation's top health agency. The CDC's list was last updated in April to add loss of taste or smell.…