South Korea puts world to shame on coronavirus: East Asian nation reports just EIGHT new cases after two-month lockdown resulted in 234 deaths so far South Korea has confirmed 10,661 cases of the virus amid 234 deaths in nation Some 8,042 further patients have recovered and been released from quarantine Officials have warned of a potential … Read more
Unrest has spread across Africa, with riots over food shortages and an army being deployed to ‘restore order’ as the coronavirus crisis rocks the continent. Protests have erupted in Cape Town, the military have been mobilised in Lesotho and the chief of staff to the Nigerian government died of the lethal bug. African now has more than … Read more
CDC warns parents not to put masks on babies during coronavirus pandemic because it may suffocate them Experts say infants have such small airways that a mask could do them harm Babies are also unable to reposition the masks if they obstruct their breathing Gov. Andrew Cuomo has told New Yorkers that they must wear … Read more
Cindy Friedman, the epidemiologist who is leading the CDC’s coronavirus cruise ship task force, told Bloomberg Businessweek in an explosive interview that the actions of Carnival Cruises amid the pandemic has put a ‘huge strain’ on the United States Carnival Cruises helped fuel the coronavirus pandemic by still sailing its fleet of ships even when … Read more
The Watchmen alum Malin Åkerman wore a CDC-recommended coronavirus face mask to walk her female terrier-mix dog through Los Angeles’ Griffith Park on Wednesday. The Swedish-born, Toronto-raised 41-year-old was breaking social-distancing rules as the City of LA Recreation and Parks Department closed all Griffith Park facilities and trails back on March 27, according to LA … Read more
The director of the Centers for Disease Control said Monday that he did recommend in February some states expand mitigation efforts to combat the coronavirus spread, but lockdowns didn’t begin until March. Robert Redfield suggested on NBC’s Today that some recommendations by the CDC and National Institute of Health were ignored earlier on in the … Read more
The CDC has extended its ‘no sail’ order for the cruise industry for a further 100 days, leaving 100 ships and 80,000 crew members stranded off the US coast. At least 20 of these ships have known or suspected cases of coronavirus onboard, the agency said, following tests and reports of respiratory-illness symptoms. Cruise liners … Read more
Software developer creates a simplified website of coronavirus statistics to make them accessible for the blind or visually impaired A Boston-based software developer wanted to make COVID-19 stats accessible He created a simplified website that would be easily readable by electronic braille readers and other common aid devices used by the visually impaired Called CVStats.net, … Read more
Older people and those with underlying conditions are at greatest risk of dying of coronavirus – but otherwise healthy young people are getting severely ill and even dying of the disease. And the ill fates of these young coronavirus patients may be written into their DNA, some scientists suspect. Some 80 percent of people who … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed highly unusual guidance from its website informing doctors on how to prescribe the anti-malaria drugs recommended by President Donald Trump to treat coronavirus. The medications, chloroquine and its analog hydroxychlorquine, are also used to threat arthritis and the autoimmune disorder lupus. Initially, the CDC webpage had … Read more