BIG LAKE — A sand pit filled with mud was the playground for more than 500 people Saturday at Big Lake, where 53 volleyball teams made a mess while raising money for the Big Lake Lions Club. The 33rd annual Big Lake Lions Mud Volleyball Tournament was smaller than last year’s but still well attended, […]
Even as President Trump insists that children must return to school in a matter of weeks, the nation appears no closer to controlling this worst-in-a-century medical emergency than it was months ago. The number of patients hospitalized with covid-19 has roughly doubled over the past month as the disease caused by the novel coronavirus tightened […]
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said on Sunday that it had locked down a city near its border with South Korea and declared a “maximum” national emergency after finding what its leader, Kim Jong-un, said could be the country’s first case of Covid-19 there. It issued the high alert after a North Korean who […]
For Immediate Release: July 24, 2020 Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reissued the LabCorp COVID-19 RT-PCR Test emergency use authorization (EUA) to include two new indications for use: testing for people who do not have COVID-19 symptoms or who have no reason to suspect COVID-19 infection, and to allow pooled sample testing. The […]
The governor of Texas hit the brakes on reopening his state Thursday as hospitals were inundated with “an explosion” of new COVID-19 cases and officials warned there might not be enough beds available. “The last thing we want to do as a state is go backwards and close down businesses,” Gov. Greg Abbott said in […]
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, right, gets an update on coronavirus testing from councilman Martin Charlo of Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes. Montana now has the lowest coronavirus infection rate in the U.S. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption toggle caption Kirk Siegler/NPR Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, right, gets an update on coronavirus testing from councilman Martin Charlo […]
The tides have turned Thursday as anyone visiting the tri-state area from Florida now must quarantine due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases here in the last several weeks. Following an all-time high number of new infections Wednesday, more than 5,500 new cases, the governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut announced travelers […]
State health officials reported 53 additional coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest single-day total in nearly two weeks and just as Maine is close to fully reopening. But there were no additional deaths and the daily average over the last 10 days is 26 cases, compared to 33 cases over the previous 10-day period. In […]
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, right, gets an update on coronavirus testing from councilman Martin Charlo of Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes. Montana now has the lowest coronavirus infection rate in the U.S. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption toggle caption Kirk Siegler/NPR Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, right, gets an update on coronavirus testing from councilman Martin Charlo […]
In China, wearing masks during an epidemic is a readily accepted practice — unlike the situation in, say, the United States or some European countries, where the issue of mask-wearing is revealing civic and political fault lines. To what extent are these differences attributable to the “culture” of each country? And how much have widespread […]