COVID-19 death toll in Minnesota reaches 15,000
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMinnesota has lost 15,000 people to COVID-19, a number bigger than the population of Brainerd and a sobering marker in the state's 3½½-year struggle with...
COVID map shows 9 states where cases are rising this month
Newsweek· 8 hours agoResidents in the central South and Midwest have experienced the highest rates of positive COVID-19 tests in the past four weeks, according to maps published by the Centers for Disease Control ...
Planned emergency alert test sparks new COVID conspiracy theories
Pioneer Press· 1 hour agoOne test signal will be sent to radios and televisions using the same familiar audio tone in use...
Kaiser Permanente strike days away
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 13 hours agoMore than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers are poised to walk off the job within days as labor negotiations remain stalled over pay, outsourcing and staffing problems, in what could ...
COVID map shows 12 states with most new hospital admissions
Newsweek· 7 days agoTwelve U.S. states have had a moderate or substantial increase in coronavirus hospitalizations in the latest recorded week, new figures show. While there were nearly 19,700 ...
WVU expenses paid to aircraft charter provider have risen since Gee called for decreasing costs
The Charleston Gazette· 4 days agoIn December 2020, West Virginia University President Gordon Gee called for WVU to “decrease costs”...
Editorial Roundup: Illinois
Belleville News-Democrat· 6 days agoThe program aimed at helping businesses cope with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic was rife with corruption, and our loyal state employees apparently were right in ...
Women workers could bear economic brunt as federal child care funding ends
KTBS Shreveport· 2 days agoA huge chunk of pandemic relief funding that kept child care programs afloat for the past few years is set to run out Saturday, and policy advocates say the economic impact will be profound, ...
Beatrice native finds his calling in refurbishing pianos
Lincoln Journal Star· 6 days agoA piano is a lot like a human being, says Morgan Cowell, owner of Great Plains Piano Co. "Around age 60 is where you've got to begin to think about things," said Cowell, a 2011 graduate of Beatrice High School.
CommonBond addressing affordable housing in Rapid City with uncommon solution
Rapid City Journal· 6 days agoYou open Zillow, type in Rapid City, and scroll the options. Elevate Rapid City released the results...
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The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. wikipedia.org
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
- December 2019 - present
- Wuhan, Hubei, China
- Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. People with these symptoms may have COVID-19: Cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fever, chills, muscle pain, sore throat, new loss of taste or smell.
- The median incubation period for COVID-19 is four to five days. Most symptomatic people experience symptoms within two to seven days after exposure.
- Human-to-human transmission via respiratory droplets
- Avoiding close contact with sick individuals; frequently washing hands with soap and water; not touching the eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands; and practicing good respiratory hygiene
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