Coronavirus

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Although the flu and coronavirus have some overlapping symptoms, the coronavirus' death rate in the US is far higher. On average in the US, the flu's death rate is .1%, while the coronavirus' death rate is 4.9%.Both viruses are most deadly for the elderly. The flu kills .83% of infected people above age 65, whereas the…

A majority of coronavirus infections from Multnomah County’s record-breaking week reportedly spread among friends and family, prompting county health officials Monday to encourage the use of face coverings in social settings.Infections within immigrant and refugee communities drove some portion of the spike, officials said.But county officials declined to quantify how many of the nearly 300…

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…

Much of what we know about the coronavirus has been revealed by testing: who has it, how widespread it is and where hot spots are. And testing enables contact tracing, a crucial public health tool that helps prevent small clusters of cases from becoming large outbreaks. Yet our understanding of the pandemic and how best…