Americans went to the polls Tuesday under the shadow of a resurging pandemic, with an alarming increase in cases nationwide and the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 reaching record highs in a growing number of states. While daily infections were rising in all but three states, the surge was most pronounced in the Midwest [...]
FENTON, Mich. (AP) — As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the nation and infections and hospitalizations rise, medical administrators are scrambling to find enough nursing help — especially in rural areas and at small hospitals. Nurses are being trained to provide care in fields where they have limited experience. Hospitals are scaling back services to [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — If it seems like more and more people are on diets these days, you might not be imagining it. A higher percentage of Americans said they're on a special diet to lose weight or for other health reasons compared with a decade ago, according to a report Tuesday by the U.S. [...]
More patients will soon have free, electronic access to the notes their doctors write about them under a new federal requirement for transparency. Many health systems opened up records Monday, the original deadline. At the last minute, federal health officials last week gave an extension until April because of the coronavirus pandemic. Britta Bloomquist of [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — Joelle Wheatley hit her pandemic-parenting rock bottom after her son was sent home from day care for a second time, with the sniffles, due to stricter health guidelines in a symptom-sensitive COVID-19 world. It was supposed to be Jacob's first day back after a stressful 10-day home quarantine for another mild symptom [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A multi-state coronavirus surge in the countdown to Election Day has exposed a clear split between President Donald Trump's bullish embrace of a return to normalcy and urgent public warnings from the government's top health officials. It's the opposite of what usually happens in a public health crisis, because political leaders tend [...]
The Ohio State University has partnered with a Vancouver-based biotechnology firm to further expand the company’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which is in pre-clinical development, an announcement this week detailed. BioVaxys Technology Corp. officials said the collaboration will focus on the study of neutralizing antibodies generated against live virus by BioVaxys’ candidate, BVX-0320. Recent interim results [...]
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — The school year in this old industrial city started with a whack of a budget axe. Teachers, classroom aides and counselors were among the hundreds laid off with potential state aid cuts looming. Pre-K is suspended, online classes are at maximum capacity and the ranks of paraprofessionals are decimated across the [...]
The global hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine for kids is only just beginning — a lagging start that has some U.S. pediatricians worried they may not know if any shots work for young children in time for the next school year. Older adults may be most vulnerable to the coronavirus, but ending the pandemic will [...]
Americans have lost trust across the board in the people and institutions informing them about the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USAFacts. The poll finds that the percentage of people saying they trust COVID-19 information from their state [...]