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[ad_1] A Virginia gym managed to avoid a coronavirus outbreak after a coach was infected. While at least 50 people were exposed to the virus, no one else got sick. That’s in part because Dr. Linsey Marr, an expert in airborne viral transmission, is a member of the gym, and worked with the owner on […]

[ad_1] Wallet? Check. Water? Check. COVID-19 test? The pre-concert checklist for music fans is about to get more complicated, as Ticketmaster is planning to check the coronavirus vaccination status of concert-goers prior to shows once a treatment is approved, Billboard reported Wednesday. The ticketing giant plans to have customers use their cellphones to verify their

[ad_1] Wearing a face mask also can help protect you — not just others from you — from the coronavirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s new guidance updated its previous assertion that the main benefit of wearing a mask was to help prevent those infected from spreading the bug

[ad_1] President-elect Joe Biden. Drew Angerer/Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that people are in need of federal coronavirus relief “right now.” At a press conference he referenced “small businesses, people who are about to be evicted from their homes because they can’t pay their mortgage, unemployment insurance.”  But Democrats and Republicans are still

[ad_1] Most COVID-19 cases in large US cities stem from visits to just a few types of places, a new study suggests. Restaurants, gyms, hotels and houses of worship are among the 10 percent of locations that would appear to account for 80 percent of the infections, according to research published in the journal Nature

[ad_1] Brazil’s health regulator said Monday it had suspended clinical trials of a Chinese-developed Covid-19 vaccine after an “adverse incident” involving a volunteer recipient, a blow for one of the most advanced vaccine candidates. The setback for CoronaVac, developed by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech, came on the same day US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said

[ad_1] Brazil is one of the countries in which China is testing its vaccine – REUTERS Brazil has suspended clinical trials for China’s coronavirus vaccine after a participant died. Instituto Butantan, the research centre in Sao Paulo developing the vaccine in partnership with Sinovac, a private Chinese firm, said it was surprised by the decision. 

[ad_1] A sign outside of BWI airport advises travelers that have been to New York, New Jersey or Connecticut must quarantine for 14 days. Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images As the coronavirus continues to spread, some US states have domestic travel restrictions in place.  Some states are requiring those traveling from high-risk areas

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Monday called New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s threats to block the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine in the Empire State “absolutely unconscionable.” In an interview with Fox News on Monday morning, Azar also said that it was Cuomo, not President Trump, who was in

[ad_1] Mink at a farm in Wisconsin on February 12, 2013. Carrie Antlfinger/AP The Danish government plans to bury 17 million mink culled over coronavirus fears en masse on military land, or will incinerate them, as its rendering plants struggle to keep up with demand. The cull of the country’s entire population of mink was