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NEW YORK - Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 4:23 pm | כ"ג אייר תש"פRobert Mujica, NYS budget director, responding about summer camps during today’s press conference. (Screencap Governor’s Office)At Sunday morning’s daily coronavirus press conference, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and his staff discussed the emerging guidelines for the opening of summer camps in New York State. In…

(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) At least 490 workers at Triumph Foods plant in St. Joseph have tested positive for the coronavirus, a state public health official said Friday — about 17 percent of the total plant employees. The news came two weeks after the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 412 Triumph employees had…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A Washington state choir practice that saw one symptomatic person infect nearly 87 percent of those who attended, was officially deemed a "superspreader event," according to a report published on Tuesday.Of the 61 Skagit Valley Chorale members who attended the 2 1/2…

Health department found that employees failed to follow infection control protocols when dealing with COVID-19 patients. NEW HOPE, Minn. — A nursing home that’s seen at least 47 of its residents die of COVID-19 complications and 130 test positive was cited by the state health department on Friday for deficient infection control. The violations at…

As the coronavirus pandemic cuts through the country, it is leaving behind large numbers of deaths that surpass those of recent history. A New York Times analysis of state data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows just how many lives are being lost in the pandemic in each place — as the…