State governments crafted plans behind closed doors for how health care facilities must allocate life-sustaining treatment in a doomsday COVID-19 scenario, raising alarm that bureaucrats will decide who lives and who dies. Crisis standards of care in some states have scoring systems and a “lottery” to determine who would win medical treatment and who would…
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…