By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer What role children play in the coronavirus pandemic is the hot-button question of the summer as kids relish their free time while schools labor over how to resume c…
Reality shows shortfalls of Trump’s claim to ‘best testing’
By ZEKE MILLER, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MICHAEL STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Here are some snapshots from what President Donald Trump describes as the nation with the “best testing in the …
Millions of kids told full return to school in fall unlikely
By FREIDA FRISARO and DAVID CRARY Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Millions more children in the U.S. learned Friday that they’re unlikely to return to classrooms full time in the f…
Mayor of Portland to Trump: Get your troops out of the city
By ANDREW SELSKY and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland demanded Friday that President Donald Trump remove militarized federal agents he deployed to the city …
Republicans eye sweeping shield from coronavirus liability
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new plan from Senate Republicans to award businesses, schools, and universities sweeping exemptions from lawsuits arising from inadequate coronavi…
New studies clarify what drugs help, hurt for COVID-19
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer Fresh studies give more information about what treatments do or don’t work for COVID-19, with high-quality methods that give reliable results. British res…
Mosquitoes flying free as health departments focus on virus
By ANNA MARIA BARRY-JESTER and LAUREN WEBER KHN Bug spray, swollen welts, citronella. It’s mosquito season. And in a normal year, the health department serving Ohio’s Delaware County would be setting …
Nearly 60% of Ohio to be under mask mandate as virus spreads
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Report for America/Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A day after a statewide address pushing the importance of personal responsibility in combating the coronavirus, Gov. Mike De…
US prison populations down 8% amid coronavirus outbreak
By DAMINI SHARMA and WEIHUA LI of The Marshall Project and DENISE LAVOIE and CLAUDIA LAUER of The Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Stephanie Parris was finishing a two-year prison sentence for a …
Can a pregnant woman spread the coronavirus to her fetus?
By The Associated Press Can a pregnant woman spread the coronavirus to her fetus? It’s possible, but it seems to be relatively rare and scientists think they know why that is. Many viruses can cross t…