With Illinois now more than a month into Phase Four of the "Restore Illinois" plan, where do each of the state's health care regions stand in key metrics related to the coronavirus pandemic? Here's a look at each region and its current performance on positivity rates and availability of hospital beds, ICU beds and ventilators,…
Steve Griffin, KSL By Graham Dudley, KSL.com | Updated - Jul. 19, 2020 at 1:25 p.m. | Posted - Jul. 19, 2020 at 1:01 p.m. is reporting 785 new diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in the state Sunday.The numbers bring Utah's count to 34,117 total confirmed cases since the pandemic began. No new deaths were reported…
The number of Minnesotans receiving intensive hospital care for COVID-19 jumped by nine Friday, the largest single-day increase in more than a month. But state health officials were more concerned about what the overall testing and ICU numbers show after the July 4th holiday weekend, when more people travel and socialize in large groups, potentially…
Since 2011, the patient known as RFS has only been able to see wavy lines when looking at the digits 2 through 9. Photo: Johns Hopkins UniversityA man’s baffling inability to see certain numerical digits might provide insight into how our brains work. According to the scientists who have studied him, the nature of his…
Coronavirus in SA: All the confirmed casesThese are the latest figures as released by the health department: Figure 1: Case dataFigure 2: Testing data(Supplied: Department of Health)To date, 219 people have died as a result of Covid-19, while 4 745 recoveries have been recorded. Data shows that infections are mostly concentrated in metropolitan municipalities and districts in…
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have
A senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services spent this week posting three claims about food safety on X, each one preceded by a red exclamation point and the word FACT. As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two
Nurse Crystal Dhooghe is used to dealing with blood and broken bones in the emergency room. But she didn’t expect to witness so much violence against her own colleagues. “I’ve seen nurses get shoved, pushed, scratched. The biggest one is bitten,” said Dhooghe, who works at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc, Michigan. The
