As scientists at the Jenner Institute prepare for mass clinical trials, new tests show their vaccine to be effective in monkeys.Prof. Adrian Hill, the Jenner Institute’s director, in Oxford on Friday. His team is working to produce a coronavirus vaccine.Credit...Mary Turner for The New York TimesApril 27, 2020, 1:51 p.m. ETMost other teams have had…
A top emergency room doctor at a Manhattan hospital that treated coronavirus patients died by suicide on Sunday, according to her father.Dr. Lorna M. Breen, the medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died in Charlottesville, Va., where she was staying with family, her father said in an interview.Tyler Hawn, a spokesman…
An analysis of federal data for the first time estimates excess deaths -- the number beyond what would normally be expected -- during that period. Excess deaths minus covid-19 60,000 weekly deaths Covid-19 deaths reported at the time 50,000 Excess deaths are deaths above what is historically expected for this period. 40,000 Jan. Feb. Apr.…
Coronavirus appears to linger longer in certain public spaces.Some public spaces appear to be more hostile environments to the new coronavirus than others, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Research and carried out by a team of investigators, led by Ke Lan, professor and director of the State Key Laboratory of…
COVID-19 maps of Missouri, Kansas: Latest coronavirus cases by county COVID-19 maps of Missouri, Kansas: Latest coronavirus cases by county The coronavirus outbreak first started in Wuhan, China and has since spread across the globe, impacting Italy, Canada and the United States. The first case of COVID-19 in the United States was reported on January…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…