AP-NORC poll: Many in US won’t return to gym or dining … WASHINGTON (AP) — Much of the country remains unlikely to venture out to bars, restaurants, theaters or gyms anytime soon, despite state and local officials across the country increasingly allowing businesses to reopen, according to a new survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That hesitancy in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak could muffle […]
Top doctors answer your questions on ‘Coronavirus … Have a question about COVID-19? Email the question, your name, and your city to our experts at coronaquestions@nexstar.tv to have it answered on “Coronavirus House Calls.” Watch the next episode RIGHT HERE on Saturday, May 16 at 3pm CT. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — As the death toll from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to rise in the […]
Could coronavirus be sexually transmitted? (CNN) — The new coronavirus can persist in men’s semen even after they have begun to recover, a finding that raises the possibility the virus could be sexually transmitted, Chinese researchers said Thursday. A team at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital tested 38 male patients treated there at the height of the pandemic in China, in January […]
Watch: White House rolls out COVID-19 ‘testing blueprint,’ … As the U.S. exceeds 1,000,000 coronavirus cases, our team in Washington, D.C. is examining the issues that likely won’t be featured tonight during primetime cable news — including proposals to extend paid time off — and ensure those helping veterans have the PPE they need. You can watch our D.C. team’s original reporting in the […]
LSU Sociology Professor Wesley Shrum receives NSF … BATON ROUGE – Wesley M. Shrum Jr., professor in the LSU Department of Sociology, was awarded a $100,218 grant from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, to study the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19. The grant, titled “A Comparative Study of How Context Shapes Responses to COVID-19,” will examine the role of exposure […]
Report: COVID-19 patients taking new drug recovering … (CNN) — COVID-19 patients who are getting an experimental drug called remdesivir have been recovering quickly, with most going home in days, STAT News reported Thursday after it obtained a video of a conversation about the trial. The patients taking part in a clinical trial of the drug have all had severe respiratory symptoms and fever, but were able […]
Report: Covid-19 patients recovering quickly after … (CNN) — Covid-19 patients who are getting an experimental drug called remdesivir have been recovering quickly, with most going home in days, STAT News reported Thursday after it obtained a video of a conversation about the trial. The patients taking part in a clinical trial of the drug have all had severe respiratory symptoms and […]
State epidemiologist Dr. Raoult Ratard passes away “Dr. Ratard was a force within the Department of Health and our whole region,”
Volunteers fixed 20,000 N95 masks for Memphis hospital … A group of volunteers has been working to repair 27,000 desperately needed N95 protective masks for a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital battling the coronavirus pandemic — and they got most of them done in a weekend. Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis recently found dozens of cases of the masks in storage but couldn’t use them because the elastic […]
Top administration officials said last year threat … Two top administration officials last year listed the threat of a pandemic as an issue that greatly worried them, undercutting President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the coronavirus pandemic was an unforeseen problem.
How to stop disease spreading on airplanes and ships (CNN) — Aviation is fighting for survival. Cruise ships are grounded. As the pandemic grows, the travel industry faces an uncertain future and is scrambling to adapt. Those aircraft still flying are now subject to stricter than ever hygiene protocols, but when the threat of the virus eventually lifts, the transportation industry will face heightened […]
Trump resists national shutdown, leaving it up to … WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is resisting calls to issue a national stay-at-home order to stem the spread of the new coronavirus despite his administration’s projections that tens of thousands of Americans are likely to be killed by the disease. One by one, though, states are increasingly pushing shutdown orders of their own. Trump said Wednesday […]