In most countries that reopened businesses recently, the main rule is "No Mask No Entry." But in this Texas bar, the regulation seems different-the opposite as customers wearing masks during the pandemic are refused of service.
The Texas Department of State Health Services recently said, it had been notified of some suspected cases of a mysterious illness called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children or the MIS-C.
In a public government document, the U.S. government is now enabling long-term care facilities to choose not to provide data of COVID-19 deaths and cases that happened before May 6.
CDC recommends that bars and restaurants need to consider installing sneeze guards at their registration areas. Public transport workers should close each other row of their buses' seats.
A recent report published by the California Health Department and the CDC claims the state's contract tracing program was ineffective in limiting the spread of the virus.
A pug was recently reported to be the first to get COVID and other pets were also reported to have contracted the virus from humans. Due to the discovery of humans to pet COVID-19 transmission, CDC had released new guidelines for human to pet interactions.
In a rush to reopen the U.S. economy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced a $631 million fund to state and local governments to help with mass testing.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Insitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during a White House briefing that somewhere between 25 and 50 percent of asymptomatic COVID-19 patients can still transmit the illness.
A rare blood infection caused by the Elizabethkingia anopheles bacteria has been contracted by people in Wisconsin the past few months, but it was recently confirmed to have claimed a life in Michigan. This brings the total death toll of the illness to 18, with the 17 people already having died of the infection in Wisconsin since the outbreak first occurred in November 2015.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidelines on prescribing opioids including OxyCotin and Percocet. Much of the advice is geared for primary care physicians, who prescribe nearly half of the opioid painkillers in the United States.
The United States is sending clean blood to prevent further spread of Zika virus in Puerto Rico because blood transfusion is seen as a means of transmitting the mosquito-borne virus. Request for funding has also been submitted to Congress.
