by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 4, 2020 | Health News
Measuring between 150 and 175 decibels, fireworks are louder than gunfire (140 decibels) and even many planes at takeoff (120 decibels). Decibels measures the loudness of a sound while hertz measures the frequency of a sound. Human ears are damaged at a mere 85 decibels. Yet we can hear to only about 20,000 hertz, while […]
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 4, 2020 | Health News
A CNN analysis of policies across 18 nations has shown that most of the countries that have now been designated by the European Union as having the epidemic under control only started easing their regulations after seeing sustained drops in daily new cases of...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 4, 2020 | Health News
The boy had severe underlying health conditions, the health department told CNN. The latest health records show the 11-year-old’s case was not travel-related, but it’s unclear if he recently had close contact with anyone who had Covid-19. The boy is the...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 4, 2020 | Health News
Cities opening, people not following preventative guidelines and people traveling could cause a spike in new Covid-19 cases, said Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center, during a briefing Wednesday by the Infectious Diseases...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 4, 2020 | Health News
More than two months after the first peak affected just a handful of states, the virus is cresting again across the South and Southwest. The US reported Friday at least 51,842 new cases, marking the third day straight with a daily high of more than 50,000 cases,...
