Greenville Mayor Knox White says he is very concerned about the spike in coronavirus cases, especially in our area.On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control designated Greenville a hot spot for coronavirus."A core purpose of our statewide testing strategy is to help identify hot spots, and it's working," Dr. Brannon Traxler…
A staffer in Johannesburg mayor Geoff Makhubo's office has tested positive for Covid-19.The staffer tested positive after travelling to the Western Cape for a funeral.Makhubo tested for the virus on Monday and has decided to go into self-isolation until he receives his results.Johannesburg mayor Geoff Makhubo has gone into self-isolation after a staffer in his…
Ekhuruleni Mayor Mzwandile Masina. (OJ Koloti, Gallo Images) The test was conducted after he had interacted with more than 100 stakeholders at the Ekurhuleni Covid-19 Food Bank.The mayor did not experience any symptoms.Regular testing for essential services providers is important to protect the communities in which they work, Masina said.Ekurhuleni Mayor Mzwandile Masina has tested…
The Food and Drug Administration has updated its list of cinnamon products with dangerously high levels of lead, bringing the total to 21. The alert now includes Wise Wife brand ground cinnamon from SLR Food Distribution Inc., of Hicksville, NY. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Analytical Chemistry collected and analyzed samples of this
(Oona Zenda/KFF Health News) As Grace Griffin and her husband were welcoming their long-awaited baby — a daughter — Griffin found herself worried about looming medical bills and unsure if their family could pay for the care they needed. “This whole experience has me wondering (keeping me up at night, actually): Can we ever afford
LYON, France — Halving the dose of antenatal betamethasone given to prevent severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in infants does not appear to affect later intelligence quotient (IQ) scores or other measures of neurodevelopment, suggests a follow-up study of a randomized trial. However, it is unclear from the present data, presented at the Congress of