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/PRNewswire/ -- The "Smartphone-based Saliva Testing and Self-monitoring of Blood Glucose Driving the Digital POCT Market" report has been added to...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will be expanding access to COVID-19 rapid testing in K-12 public schools to protect students, teachers and staff from COVID-19.

On a recent weekday afternoon, a fishing vessel called the Arctic Endurance prepared to depart from Mulgrave, N.S., for a month-long clam harvesting trip. Blustery winds blew snow across the ship as it left the dock, but at least on the pandemic front, the coast was clear. All 35 crew members had undergone testing for COVID-19 within the previous 24 hours, and all their results were negative. Their employer, Clearwater Seafoods, organized the tests. The company bought its highly accurate polymer...

Towson University opened a new COVID-19 testing facility last month in an effort to expedite its testing procedures and reduce the number of cases on campus. Now faculty, staff and students can receive rapid tests, allowing the university to administer more than 10 times as many tests in the spring semester than in the fall semester, the university reported. Through the facility, the ...

New York State Health Commissioner Doctor Howard Zucker is now announcing the guidelines that will allow visitors back into nursing homes on February 26.

Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News (file) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says nursing home visits are about to resume. The Democrat February 19 said residents and staff have now all be offered the vaccine and 73 percent have accepted. The Department of Health is recommending nursing homes be allowed to reopen to visitors and will be putting out guidelines soon, including on-site rapid testing of visitors. Get our free mobile app Every visitor would have to be tested for the coronavirus before entering...

Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press Canadians are tired. We have endured almost a year of lockdowns, red zones, yellow zones, physical distancing, masks and school closings. More than 20,000 Canadians have died, many more have suffered from the symptoms of COVID-19 and the price being paid as other necessary medical treatments are delayed is impossible to calculate. The road to recovery of our economy and our mental health is unclear. We have no playbook for what is happening, at home or abroad. “T...

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Broome's Executive says the 200+ deaths from the pandemic in area nursing homes has weighed heavily on him and other officials but it had not been a surprise.

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