NEW: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has topped 20,000,000 worldwide and a quarter of them are in the US, according to latest tally.
by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association revealed a 40 percent increase in COVID-19 cases in children from July 16 to July 30.
Almost 100,000 children in the U.S. were sickened with the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July, the researchers found.A Houston-area woman trying to fly home from Midland, Texas, said she and her family were kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight on Monday morning because her 3-year-old son, who has autism, refused to wear a face mask. “He was screaming. He was throwing a fit. He was screaming no, no, no,” the mom, Alyssa Sadler, told.
While public health experts say wearing masks helps slow the spread of the virus, enforcing mask rules can be hazardous to your health.
. Last week, the Cherokee County School District, about 44 miles north of Atlanta, told 20 people to quarantine when one second-grader tested positive for the virus after the first day of school. That number grew fast, and as of Monday night, the school has ordered 826 students to quarantine due to possible exposure,
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