Articles filed under Health Crises
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Home quarantine for travelers buys time as new virus spreadsFeb 16, 2020 6:00 am - On his return from China last week, Dr. Ian Lipkin quarantined himself in his basement. His wife now puts his food on the stairs. He's run out of things to watch on Netf...
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Questions complicate efforts to contain new virus from ChinaFeb 15, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Reports one day suggest the respiratory outbreak in China might be slowing, the next brings word of thousands more cases. Even the experts have whiplas...
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Tweeting in a time of coronavirus: Woman uses social media to lighten mood on cruise shipFeb 15, 2020 5:21 am - Christina Kerby was corralled aboard a massive luxury cruise ship, charting a meandering course somewhere in the South China Sea, when she began thinking about the apoca...
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Local coronavirus patients released from isolationFeb 15, 2020 12:00 am - Two local patients diagnosed in January with the coronavirus (COVID-19) were released Friday from home isolation, according to health departments from the state of Illin...
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Amid coronavirus fears, a second wave of flu hits US kidsFeb 14, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A second wave of flu is hitting the U.S., turning this into one of the nastiest seasons for children in a decade. The number of child deaths and the hosp...
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Amid coronavirus fears, a second wave of flu hits U.S. kidsFeb 14, 2020 12:00 am - NEW YORK - A second wave of flu is hitting the U.S., turning this into one of the nastiest seasons for children in a decade. The number of child deaths and the hospitali...
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Weight loss drug Belviq pulled from market over cancer riskFeb 13, 2020 6:00 am - The maker of a weight loss drug pulled it from the market Thursday at the request of federal regulators, who said it posed a slight increased risk of cancer. Japan's Eis...
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US announces 15th virus case, this one in Texas evacueeFeb 13, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. officials on Thursday announced the country's 15th confirmed case of the new coronavirus - an evacuee from China who had been under quarantine in Te...
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US survey finds smaller decline in medical bill worriesFeb 12, 2020 6:00 am - The proportion of people in families struggling to pay medical bills is down, but the number isn't dropping like it used to, according to a big government study. In a 2...
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China's Communist Party faces its biggest crisis since SARSFeb 12, 2020 6:00 am - BEIJING (AP) - China's ruling Communist Party needs to make a politically fraught decision: Admit a viral outbreak isn't under control and cancel this year's highest-pro...