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MONDAY, March 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Trying to find hand sanitizer to ward off coronavirus? You're not alone. Hand sanitizer has been selling out across the country as the COVID-19 pandemic moves into more and more U.S. communities. People have rushed to stores looking for alcohol-based sanitizers containing at least 60% alcohol, the type recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to kill coronavirus. It hasn't helped that hoarders also have been snatching up supplies in an effort to make a quick buck. The cleaning products industry swears they are working hard to meet the demand for these products. "We know that our member company manufacturers of cleaning products and hand sanitizers are working around the clock to meet the increased demand for these...

MONDAY, March 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- As the number of known U.S. coronavirus cases soared past 34,000 and the death count eclipsed 400 on Sunday, President Donald Trump approved disaster declarations for regions hit hardest by the pandemic, activating the National Guard in three states. The declarations will bring supplies, medical stations and naval hospital ships to New York, Washington state and California, CNN reported. Trump said Sunday that the federal government was deploying the National Guard units to "to carry out approved missions" and as a "backup" to state leaders. Four large medical stations with 1,000 beds each are going to be built in New York, Trump said, while eight medical stations are heading to California over the next 48 hours. In Washington state, Trump...

SUNDAY, March 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- As the number of U.S. coronavirus cases soared past 26,000 and the death count eclipsed 300 on Sunday, millions of Americans spent their first weekend under stay-at-home orders. The huge spike in cases propelled the United States to a position no country would want: America has now overtaken Germany as the country with the fourth-highest number of cases, the Associated Press reported Sunday. In an effort to try to slow that spread, governors in a total of five states -- California, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey and New York have now advised residents to stay at home indefinitely, meaning that about one in four Americans now lives under such "shelter-in-place" orders. "I don't come to this decision easily," Illinois governor J.B....

SUNDAY, March 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Where you put leaves raked from your yard last fall could affect your family's risk of bites from ticks that transmit Lyme disease-causing bacteria, a new study suggests. In areas where Lyme-causing ticks are prevalent, homes are often near forested areas, and ticks thrive in these habitats between lawn and woods. Raking or blowing leaves from your lawn just out to the forest edge could pose a risk by creating an ideal habitat for blacklegged (deer) ticks, according to the study published March 18 in the Journal of Medical Entomology. "Our study showed that the common fall practice of blowing or raking leaves removed from lawns and landscaping to the immediate lawn/woodland edges can result in a three-fold increase in blacklegged tick...