Vulnerable sea turtles flourishing during coronavirus restrictions in Florida

In an April 18 Facebook post, the Loggerhead Marinelife Center said that its staff had discovered 79 leatherback and loggerhead turtle nests on a 9.5-mile stretch of beach that encompasses Juno Beach.

Yonkers ER staff saves lives and suffers in COVID-19 hot spot

Saint Joseph's Medical Center is located just over a mile from the northern border of New York City's borough of the Bronx. The hospital normally has 194 acute-care beds but has been treating many more patients in one of the poorest sections of Westchester County's largest city since the new coronavirus began spreading rapidly through the region.

Tyson to suspend operations at largest pork plant indefinitely following coronavirus outbreak

Tyson Foods suspended operations Wednesday at an Iowa plant that is critical to the nation’s pork supply but had been blamed for fueling a massive coronavirus outbreak in the community.

As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner

The world has experienced positive environmental effects as people have stayed home due to COVID-19.

8 young children test positive for virus at Tokyo infant home

A Tokyo hospital said Wednesday that eight young children at its affiliated infant home have contracted the new coronavirus while showing no visible symptoms.

Beloved Manhattan bar Coogan's permanently closed

Coogan's announced on its Facebook page that COVID-19 had forced it to close—but not just temporarily.

China calls virus lawsuit 'very absurd'

China on Wednesday slammed a lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. state of Missouri over the coronavirus pandemic as “very absurd."

First COVID-19 deaths occurred in Bay Area in early February

The first known death from COVID-19 in the U.S. was believed to have occurred in Washington State in late February 2020, but the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner revealed on Tuesday that two individuals had died on Feb. 6 and Feb. 17 at home with coronavirus making them the first deaths recorded in the nation.

People missing out on stimulus checks because spouses are immigrants

Roughly 1.2 million U.S. citizens did not receive stimulus checks because they are married to immigrants who don’t have social security numbers and joint-filed their taxes.

Man says dad was turned away by 3 hospitals while sick with COVID-19, then died at home

Keith says his father should still be alive, but was turned away from receiving care and testing at Beaumont Grosse Pointe, Detroit Receiving and Henry Ford hospitals over the course of three days