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Illustration by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters; elements via iStock.###Within hours of walking her teenage son into a Long Beach hospital for a burning fever and angry red rash that exploded across his body, Marla Maxfield watched helplessly as he was rushed into the intensive care unit. “He was so swollen, his face looked like he…

The number of coronavirus cases in California is on the rise after weeks of optimism that infections had slowed, raising fears that plans to reopen counties, along with mass protests against police brutality, could accelerate transmission of the virus.  According to numbers from Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking coronavirus cases and deaths, California…

Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize. (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images) More than 1 700 new cases has seen the number of coronavirus infections increase to 37 525.Thirty-seven more fatalities have been confirmed.Ten of have been people younger than 30.The Western and Eastern Cape accounts for 78% of the country's confirmed coronavirus cases, with the…

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is reporting that more than 78,000 people in the state have recovered from COVID-19 infections.It is the first time that state health officials have released statewide recovery data in regard to the coronavirus.The DPH reported Wednesday that 78,108 of the 97,964 confirmed COVID-19 patients in Massachusetts have been released…

Image copyright MOD / PA The head of the Test and Trace programme has been challenged over the risks of false negative coronavirus results by a committee of MPs.Dido Harding was asked at the health select committee why people are not repeatedly tested to ensure they do not have coronavirus.MPs heard 20% of tests may…