COVID-19

Health & Safety

Another Pork Plant Shuts Down Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

1:22pm April 22, 2020

by Dan Charles

Tyson Foods is halting work at a processing site in Waterloo, Iowa, because people have tested positive for the virus. Other plants also have closed, cutting U.S. pork production by about a quarter.

Medical students, faculty and volunteers take blood samples during a coronavirus antibody study in Mountain View, Calif., on April 3. Santa Clara County's medical examiner says a person who died on Feb. 6 has posthumously tested positive for COVID-19.

1st Known U.S. COVID-19 Death Was Weeks Earlier Than Previously Thought

12:23pm April 22, 2020

by Bill Chappell

The first U.S. COVID-19 death took place on Feb. 6, an autopsy shows. The person died at home in Santa Clara County, Calif., at a time when testing in the U.S. was tightly limited.

The job of contact tracing can involve detective work. During the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014, a hand-drawn map on the wall of a rural clinic in Liberia showed health workers how to get to a remote village where a woman with Ebola may have trave

How Do You Do Contact Tracing? Poor Countries Have Plenty Of Advice

11:16am April 22, 2020

by Jason Beaubien

As parts of the U.S. aim to move out of lockdown, a key tool to contain coronavirus cases will be contact tracing. It's something health workers in low-income countries have lots of experience with.

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Black's grandchildren have been driving to the Monument Valley High School parking lot to get online.

Navajo Families Without Internet Struggle To Home-School During COVID-19 Pandemic

10:05am April 22, 2020

by Kate Groetzinger

The high coronavirus infection rate means Navajo Nation schools are closed. But online learning is impossible for many who lack electricity and can't access the Internet.

A festival tent at the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, last year. Germany's Oktoberfest will be canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus, Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder said Tuesday.

A 'Bitter Pill': Oktoberfest Canceled Due To Coronavirus

6:58pm April 21, 2020

by H.J. Mai

"You can't host a folk festival in a time like this," said Munich's mayor. Officials said it was a tough decision but they saw no other choice. Some 6 million people attend the festival every year.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of President Trump's coronavirus task force, directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which had convened the panel of experts.

NIH Panel Recommends Against Drug Combination Promoted By Trump For COVID-19

5:55pm April 21, 2020

by Joe Palca

The group of experts, assembled under the agency run by Dr. Anthony Fauci, warns that using a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin could result in potential toxicities.

People descended upon Garden City's beach in South Carolina Tuesday, within minutes of an executive order taking effect that allows beaches to reopen if local leaders allow it. Other nearby beaches remain closed.

S.C. Beaches Reopen — Or Not — Reflecting A Divide Over Coronavirus Shutdown

5:48pm April 21, 2020

by Bill Chappell

Some of the state's most popular beaches opted to stay closed and others reopened, creating a hopscotch pattern of differing polices.

George Baraina Dos Santos, photographed at a camp for the homeless in Standfontein, Cape Town, South Africa. The city's homeless population were broght here by the government as part of the city's corona virus response, but many say they felt safer on the

Health & Safety

PHOTOS: Lockdown In The World's Most Unequal Country

5:23pm April 21, 2020

by Tommy Trenchard

Since South Africa went into lockdown in late March, the country's social divisions have been brought into sharper focus than ever.

Nurses reposition an intubated COVID-19 patient in a prone position in the intensive care unit at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, Chula Vista, Calif., on April 10.

Health & Safety

After The ICU, Many COVID-19 Survivors Face A Long Recovery

4:42pm April 21, 2020

by Jon Hamilton

David Williams, 54, spent eight days on a ventilator after he got COVID-19. Weeks after being discharged from the hospital, he still needs an oxygen tube and a walker.

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Some businesses that want to stay open say it's hard to do so when employees can make more money by staying home.

Economy

Bitter Taste For Coffee Shop Owner, As New $600 Jobless Benefit Drove Her To Close

4:41pm April 21, 2020

by Scott Horsley

The new federal benefit is designed to cushion the blow of the pandemic. But some businesses that want to stay open say it's hard to do so when employees can make more money by staying home.

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