coronavirus spreads mainly via airborne transmission and wearing a mask is the most effective way to stop person-to person spread, according to a new study.A team of researchers in Texas and California compared COVID-19 infection rate trends in Italy and New York both before and after face masks were made mandatory. Both locations started to…
ASHEVILLE - As of noon June 12, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services tallied 41,249 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 statewide. That's an increase of 1,768 from the previous day. That's the highest daily case jump overall, topping the previous high June 6 by almost 400 cases.NCDHHS counts a total of 1,092 deaths associated…
Pennsylvania Department of Health on Saturday announced 463 new cases of the coronavirus in the state, bringing the statewide total to 78,462 in about three months.The department also listed 49 more deaths, bringing the total number of COVID-19-related fatalities to 6,211.Most of the deaths were people in nursing and personal care homes.About 74% percent of…
Take the stairs, not the elevator, down from your hotel room. Encourage people to bring their own food and drinks to your cookout. Use hand sanitizer after banking at an ATM. Call ahead to restaurants and nail salons to make sure staff are wearing face coverings. And no high-fives — or even elbow bumps —…
People rest inside social distancing markers at Domino Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York in late May. Stay-at-home orders in New York helped to lower the state's "reproduction number," which estimates how many people one sick person could infect with the coronavirus. Michael Nagle/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael Nagle/Xinhua…
A batch of rice noodles was left unrefrigerated for more than 63 hours before serving. Published: November 13, 2026, 12:05 am Last updated: November 13, 2026, 12:04 am Four people have been sentenced in Taiwan in relation to a fatal food poisoning outbreak that occurred in 2024. In 2025, the Taipei District Prosecutors Office said five
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State and local governments spent about $3.7 billion in opioid settlement funds last year. That’s more than the median annual income of 42,000 American families combined. The money comes from companies that were sued for aggressively pushing painkillers and fueling the opioid crisis. Large amounts went to addiction treatment, recovery housing, and other initiatives that