Latest coronavirus data released from South Carolina health officials The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced Tuesday 1,870 new confirmed cases and one new probable case of the coronavirus, 56 additional confirmed deaths and one new probable death.This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 73,101, probable cases to 236,…
The statewide shutdown of restaurants and bars for on-premise service took effect March 16. Since then, several restaurants and bars have reopened for dining and drinking, as Chicago and the state have rolled out gradual reopening plans. But not all of them have made it. As the pandemic continues toward the five-month mark, we’ve put…
(CNN)If people washed their hands regularly, wore masks, and kept their social distance from each other, these three simple behaviors could stop most all of the Covid-19 pandemic, even without a vacc…
LATEST July 21, 1:10 p.m. California’s top health official Dr. Mark Ghaly said at a Tuesday press briefing California is “just in the beginning” of the pandemic and the situation has worsened as some viewed reopening as a "green light to resume a normal life."Ghaly expressed the need for people to wear face masks, wash their…
Dr. Harvey Risch, an epidemiology professor at Yale School of Public Health, said on Tuesday that he thinks hydroxychloroquine could save 75,000 to 100,000 lives if the drug is widely used to treat coronavirus.“There are many doctors that I’ve gotten hostile remarks about saying that all the evidence is bad for it and, in fact, that is…
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…