Mayor reminds residents to wear masks in publicORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – As is the case with the rest of the state, Orange County is seeing more and more COVID-19 patients with the numbers hitting a height the area hasn’t seen in weeks.The director of the Department of Health in Orange County Dr. Raul Pino broke…
Bell County’s number of COVID-19 cases skyrocketed Thursday when health officials announced 32 residents — a third of whom were connected to a cluster of infections at a Killeen church — had contracted the virus.That is the highest daily increase reported in the county, according to the Bell County Public Health District. The county has…
By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE Updated 11:39 am PDT, Thursday, June 11, 2020 Face mask use is virtually universal in Taiwan, one of the countries least impacted by COVID-19 due to interventions. (Shown: Taipei street on May 18, 2020.) Face mask use is virtually universal in Taiwan, one of the countries least impacted by COVID-19 due to…
Mass coronavirus testing in the Marin County town of Bolinas in April revealed no active COVID-19 infections and little to no previous infections among 1,880 residents and first responders, researchers announced Thursday. Researchers at UCSF, who analyzed tests taken in April, said the findings show the effectiveness of sheltering in place — made easier by…
At least a dozen treatments are being evaluated for virus patients whose immune systems go on the attack.Six views of the coronavirus, which in some patients causes the immune system to overcompensate, leading to a “cytokine storm.”Credit...National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIHJune 11, 2020Updated 8:37 p.m. ETMany coronavirus patients seem to get better…
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…