North Carolina on Thursday reported its highest single-day increase in coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, with more than 5,600 people testing positive for the coronavirus. The percentage of tests coming back positive also has risen sharply in

BEIJING (Reuters) – China is carrying out sweeping inspections on food importers, supermarkets, e-commerce platforms and restaurants to prevent the spread of coronavirus through imported cold chain products, the country’s market regulator said on Wednesday.

“The current epidemic prevention and control situation is still complex and austere, and the risk of the disease entering through imported cold chain links is continuously rising as the exchange of international personnel and goods increases,” State Administration for Market Regulation said in a statement on its website.

While China has already stepped up testing and disinfection of imported frozen products at ports and in local markets, driving up costs and curbing demand, the latest comments from Beijing showed inspections on cold chain

A hospital in New Jersey battled an increase in superbug cases amid a surge in COVID-19 admissions in the spring. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says this highlights how hospitals can be vulnerable to such outbreaks when they get overwhelmed because of COVID-19.

COVID-19 and CRAB outbreak

In a report, published Tuesday, CDC said an unnamed New Jersey hospital reported a cluster of Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) infections on May 28, when there was a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations. CRAB is a multidrug-resistant pathogen known to spread in hospitals. Calling the superbug “opportunistic,” the CDC said CRAB is a “threat in healthcare” as it can cause outbreaks in hospitals

Texas reported more than 15,000 new cases Tuesday, smashing the previous single-day record. State health officials attributed at least some of the spike to a lag in reporting over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, but doctors and local leaders still say they’re trending in the wrong direction.

Marfa is located about 200 miles (321.87 kilometers) down the border from El Paso,

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center.

The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 is helping speed the development of vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19 by increasing the number of infected candidates needed for trials, said Moncef Slaoui, PhD, the chief science adviser for the federal government’s Operation Warp Speed program.

Two additional vaccine candidates that are part of Operation Warp Speed are deep into phase 3 trials, Slaoui said at a livestream event sponsored by the Washington Post. 

“We expect that we will be reading out the efficacy of those vaccines in the month of January,” said Slaoui. “Unfortunately, there is so much transmission of this virus currently that’s very likely to happen early in January.”

Two more vaccines should be entering phase 3 trials within a few weeks, he said.

Slaoui didn’t mention the names of the candidates that

The Texas doctor captured on film cradling a distraught Covid-19 patient on Thanksgiving has spoken of the sad isolation of his elderly patients and pleaded with people to “do the basic things” to avoid infection and stay out of hospital.

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HOUSTON, TX – NOVEMBER 26: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Dr. Joseph Varon hugs and comforts a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) during Thanksgiving at the United Memorial Medical Center on November 26, 2020 in Houston, Texas. According to reports, Texas has reached over 1,220,000 cases, including over 21,500 deaths. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Getty Images)

Hospitalizations from Covid-19 reached another record high across the US Monday, with officials across several states expressing concern that health care facilities would be overwhelmed.

Dr. Joseph Varon, chief of staff at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, told CNN’s New Day on Monday that he had worked for

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — One of the largest gyms in the country, based right here in Minnesota, argues gyms are not super spreaders.

On Friday, Life Time CEO Braham Akradi filed a request for access to government data to see the exact amount of virus spread happening in health clubs in Minnesota.

“The clubs are amongst the lowest places that they’re spreading this virus,” said Akradi.

Life Time said in a statement, “We have had approximately 3.15 million visits to its Minnesota clubs since they reopened on June 10. Since that time 352 positive cases of COVID-19 have been reported by members and/or team members. This equates to .0001% of the total amount of cases in the state.”

Life Time Fitness in Edina was the one part of Samantha Maroney’s daily routine that she didn’t cut out during this pandemic. Unlike many other activities she enjoys, she felt this was

“Increases from the past two weeks correlate with Halloween and related activities,” according to the task force report, which said Oklahoma remains in the red zone for cases with more than 101 per 100,000 residents.

The task force report recommended limiting restaurants to 25% capacity, curtailing the hours bars are open and encouraging the wearing of masks in public.

“The spread in Oklahoma is exponential and unyielding, with hospitalizations increasing week over week and reported limited bed availability,” according the the task force report released Wednesday

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When I asked Myrika Schneider, the studio director at PUSH Fitness in St. Paul, if the class she’d invited me to would kick my butt, she giggled.

“You’ll love it,” she said. “You’ll be with Connie.”

At 6 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, I logged into a virtual Tabata class — my first time doing the circuit exercise — taught by a 58-year-old Black woman named Connie Sheehan, the founder and owner of PUSH Fitness, from a living room in Chicago, where she’s caring for her mother who recently suffered a heart attack.

She did not have any weights or equipment, but her vibrant demeanor and energized presentation proved sufficient.

“Today is going to be the best day of your life!” she told the class, while “Best Day of My Life” by American Authors played in the background. “You didn’t know that when you woke up, did you?”

I’d caught