The Georgia Department of Public Health is working to confirm that 578 positive coronavirus cases went unrecorded in Macon-Bibb County over the last six weeks.
That’s an average of 96 new cases a week mostly through the month of July, already a peak of local coronavirus spread.
John Pennington was arrested and charged with violating Canada's Quarantine Act while visiting the town of Banff, Alberta. Police saw his Ohio plates at the parking lot for a sightseeing gondola.
Millions of people who have lost all or some of their income are having to make hard choices — from moving across the country for cheaper rent to raiding retirement savings.
That's the word that one disease researcher uses to describe COVID-19. And now scientists are discovering the reasons that this virus is readily transmitted at "superspreader events."
President Trump gets higher marks for handling the economy than just about anything else, despite presiding over the worst recession since the Great Depression.
Problems when a major regional hospital connected its automated coronavirus testing system to state public health records may has either dramatically distorted or revealed an under count in covid-19 data in Macon-Bibb County.
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar about the Food and Drug Administration allowing the use of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19.
Nearly half the people who attended the reception have tested positive for the virus. Maine authorities say it has spread to others who did not attend the wedding, including a woman who has died.
Doctors are researching why some patients remain unconscious for days or weeks, even after sedating drugs are withdrawn. They also worry that these patients aren't being given time to recover.
On July 1, 2020, Lisa Herring Ed.D. was sworn in as the new superintendent for Atlanta Public Schools. Now, 54 days later, the Macon, Georgia native is preparing to launch her first school year, all virtually — in the middle of a pandemic.
Many doctors are suffering burnout five months into the pandemic. But the toll is compounded for Latino doctors serving heavily affected Latino communities. Some are now beginning to seek help.
The report concludes Wisconsin voters who braved the pandemic and went to the polls in April did not see a surge in COVID-19 infections, although another study reaches the opposite conclusion.