Coronavirus Pandemic

How scientists are tracking the coronavirus through its own genetic makeup

12/04/2020 10:17 PM

"It's important right now so we can better figure out how to control the pandemic," she says. "And it's going to be important in the future to understand which vaccines work, which ones the virus has already mutated against, and where the outbreaks are." ...

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An inside look at Regions Hospital's battle against COVID-19

TikTok recognizes Minnesota doctor's impact on others, names her No. 1 on 'most impactful creators' list

MDH COVID-19 briefing: Update on long-term care facilities, National Guard supporting state's response

Minnesota National Guard temporary nurse's aide training.

States submit vaccine orders as coronavirus death toll grows

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, a worker walks through the hallway of a newly opened field hospital operated by Care New England to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients in Cranston, R.I. States faced a deadline on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, to place orders for the coronavirus vaccine as many reported record infections, hospitalizations and deaths, while hospitals were pushed to the breaking point — with the worst feared yet to come.

This electron microscope image made available and color-enhanced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md., shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, orange, isolated from a patient. University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19. They said Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 that genetic tests show a 33-year-old man returning to Hong Kong from a trip to Spain in mid-August had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he’d previously been infected with in March.

COVID-19 in Wisconsin: 63 new deaths, 4,847 new cases

A total of 404,555 positive cases of COVID-19 have now been confirmed in Wisconsin, with 4,847 new cases reported Friday ...

In this photo provided by the University of Vermont Health Network, IT staff help clinical providers set up new computers at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Vt., on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. After the Oct. 28 attack forced a shutdown of the hospital’s electronic medical records and other key systems, the IT department, with support from the Vermont National Guard’s cyber team, scanned thousands of computers for malware and replaced machines for hospital staff.

As hospitals cope with a COVID-19 surge, cyber threats loom

The same day as UVM's attack, the FBI and two federal agencies warned cybercriminals were ramping up efforts to steal data and disrupt services across the health care sector...

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Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Robert Redfield exchange elbow bumps after a briefing at the CDC Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, in Atlanta.

VP Pence: Confidence in vaccine important for US

At the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention main campus in Atlanta, Pence said Friday the Food and Drug Administration could approve the first vaccines “the week of Dec. 14” ...

61 new deaths, 5,371 cases reported in Minnesota

Among first acts, Biden to call for 100 days of mask-wearing

President-elect Joe Biden departs a news conference after introducing his nominees and appointees to economic policy posts at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in Wilmington, Del.

Report: 14 deaths associated with COVID-19 reported at northern Wisconsin care facility

In this April 2, 2020, file photo a nurse holds a vial and a swab at a drive-up coronavirus testing station at a hospital in Seattle.

Optimism growing for COVID-19 relief bill as pressure builds

This combination of file photos shows from left, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. on Feb. 29, 2020, in Columbia, S.C., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., on July 24, 2020, in Washington and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., on March 3, 2020, in Washington.

Program connecting front line workers to mental health services seeing spike in demand

Demand is growing for a program, started in April, that connects nurses, doctors and others in the field to mental health resources...

UN chief: Vaccine can't undo damage from global pandemic

In this image made from UNTV video, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during the U.N. General Assembly's special session to discuss the response to COVID-19 and the best path to recovery from the pandemic, Thursday, Dec. 3,2020, at U.N. headquarters, in New York.

Evers makes plea for federal money, vaccine to fight virus

Patient in Moose Lake sex offender treatment program dies from COVID-19

COVID-19 in Wisconsin: 60 more deaths reported as state nears 400K cases

FILE - This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. On Tuesday, April 21, 2020, U.S. health regulators OK'd the first coronavirus test that allows people to collect their own sample at home, a new approach that could help expand testing options in most states. The sample will still have to be shipped for processing back to LabCorp, which operates diagnostic labs throughout the U.S.

n this Jan. 16, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama, center, walks out of the Oval Office of the White House with former Presidents Bill Clinton, left, and George W. Bush, right, to deliver remarks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington.

Ex-presidents would get vaccine publicly to boost confidence

Pop-up COVID-19 testing site to open in Blaine

MDH: 92 new COVID-19 deaths, 6,166 cases reported Thursday

Facebook to remove COVID-19 vaccine-related misinformation

The social network said Thursday that it will take down any Facebook or Instagram posts with false information about the vaccines that have been debunked by publich health experts ...

US virus deaths top 3,100 in a single day for the first time

The U.S. has recorded over 3,100 COVID-19 deaths in a single day, obliterating the record set last spring. The number of Americans hospitalized with the virus has eclipsed 100,000 for the first time. And new cases have begun topping 200,000 a day ...

In this Nov. 24, 2020, file photo, Dr. Shane Wilson performs rounds in a portion of Scotland County Hospital set up to isolate and treat COVID-19 patients in Memphis, Mo. Across the U.S., the surge has swamped hospitals with patients and left nurses and other health care workers shorthanded and burned out.

Wisconsin restaurants, small businesses affected by COVID-19 to receive $45 million in assistance

Wisconsin restaurants and other targeted small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will receive $45 million in assistance, bringing the total assistance distributed to Wisconsin businesses this year to more than $220 million...

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