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UPDATE:DHSS announced today there are 53 residents in 12 communities: Anchorage (31), Fairbanks (6), Eagle River (3), Valdez-Cordova Census Area (3), Ketchikan (2), Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (2), Wasilla (2), Juneau (1), Kodiak Island Borough (1), Kusilvak Census Area (1) and Willow (1).There are also 4 new nonresident cases. Municipality of Anchorage (2 visitors, 1 tourism…

Health officials said 22 people died from COVID-19 last week, doubling the number of people who died from the coronavirus the week before. PORTLAND, Ore. — Health officials on Wednesday reported 282 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the state’s known case total to over 13,000. The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) also announced four more people have…

Wednesday, July 15th 2020, 11:10 am By: News On 6 Four new virus-related deaths and 1,075 new coronavirus cases were reported in the state since Monday, according to daily numbers released by the Oklahoma State Department of Health.A total of 22,813 Oklahomans have tested positive for COVID-19 and the total number of deaths went up…

Share on PinterestA new review collates information about COVID-19’s impact on the body beyond the lungs.At the time of writing, globally, there have been more than 13 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, the illness that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 causes, and more than 570,000 deaths. While experts initially thought that the illness was principally a respiratory…

Share on PinterestClose confinement and overcrowding make prisons the ideal ‘breeding ground’ for infectious disease.Image credit: Sandy Huffaker / AFP.In many ways, prisons are an ideal ‘breeding ground’ for contagious diseases, due to conditions of close confinement, shared facilities, and overcrowding.According to an older article in Clinical Infectious Diseases, newly incarcerated prisoners have higher rates…