The Florida Department of Health added a record 10,109 cases of COVID-19, making it the ninth consecutive day that at least 5,000 new cases.

Surgeon General on Friday encouraged Americans to social distance and wear face masks over the Fourth of July weekend to slow the spread of COVID-19.

on Thursday saw another day of record cases that surpassed 50,000. Dr.

"In the beginning, nursing homes were hit really hard, and the majority of our deaths were occurring on people who were 60, 65 and older," he said Friday on "Fox & Friends". "Now the majority of cases are in people who have an average age of 35, and so those folks are going to have less comorbidities, they're going to be less likely to end up in the hospital and to die." .

recorded 52,291 new cases of the coronavirus Thursday, surpassing Wednesday's record of 50,655, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The U.S.

Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss this weekend’s race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The 44-year-old Johnson is the first driver in any NASCAR series to test positive and the news Friday evening cast a shadow over the historic NASCAR-IndyCar doubleheader races Saturday and Sunday.

He was tested earlier Friday after his wife, Chani, tested positive after experiencing allergy-like symptoms.

Major League Baseball, resuming spring training Friday, announced that 31 players and seven staff members tested positive for COVID-19 as part of intake screening.

Teams are not permitted to identify the players who tested positive for COVID-19, but two players, Delino DeShields Jr.

Any player who tests positive for COVID-19 must test negative twice at least 24 hours apart from one another, with no fever for 72 hours, before he can rejoin a team.

As Texas shuts back down amid soaring COVID-19 cases, doctors across the now-hardest-hit states face insurers that are starting to back away from the widely embraced telehealth approach to doctor appointments. .

Some of the expanded telehealth coverage was planned until the end of the "public health emergency," which is ill-defined with no end in sight, said Dr.

A team at Henry Ford Health System in Southeast Michigan said Thursday its study of 2,541 hospitalized patients found that patients who took the drug were much less likely to die. A report on the findings was published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Steven Kalkanis, CEO of the Henry Ford Medical Group, acknowledged to reporters that the group's results differed from other studies but said it "potentially could be a lifesaver for patients" if used before they begin to suffer some of the severe immune reactions associated with COVID-19.

At least 105 students at the University of Washington who live in fraternity houses have self-reported testing positive for COVID-19, according to the university's Interfraternity Council, the student-led governing board for UW fraternities. .

While the university is working to confirm the 105 cases, it has confirmed at least 62 fraternity house residents have tested positive.

The Washington State Department of Health reports 9% of people ages 0-19 and 36% of people ages 20-39, the state's largest percentage, have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Florida reported 9,488 new cases of the coronavirus in the state Friday, just shy of a record 10,109 new cases posted the previous day as the deadly virus shows no sign of retreating.

states — Arizona, California, Florida and Texas — reported a combined 25,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases Thursday as the infection curve rose in 40 of the 50 states heading into the July Fourth holiday weekend.

With the number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide climbing past 50,000, an alarming 36 states saw an increase in the percentage of tests coming back positive for the virus.

All but 10 states are showing an upswing in newly reported cases over the past 14 days, according to data compiled by the volunteer COVID Tracking Project.

Greg Abbott issued a statewide mask order as COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas set another high Thursday.

India reported another single-day record high of new coronavirus cases Friday while its monuments, including the Taj Mahal, are set to reopen for tourists next week.

The Health Ministry also reported another 379 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing fatalities to 18,213.

As coronavirus cases spike in Texas, the city of Dallas will distribute $500,000 in funding to nonprofit organizations that support immigrant families.

The party in mid-June was hosted by someone who was sick with coronavirus at the time, Rockland County Executive Ed Day told USA TODAY on Thursday