A series of texts interrupted Tam Nguyen just before he sat down for dinner Thursday. The messages shared urgent news: Did he hear California Gov. Gavin Newsom make a startling new assertion about how the first person in the state contracted the coronavirus? “This whole thing started in the state of California, the first community…
A new case report has pieced together how air conditioning in a restaurant may have helped to infect at least nine people with Covid-19. While there are important limitations and drawbacks to the non-peer reviewed research, it’s one of the first case reports to suggest air conditioning could play a role in the transmission of Covid-19 At lunchtime on January…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A New York mother who claims she was infected with the novel coronavirus but did not experience any symptoms at first says she unknowingly spread the illness to 17 of her 18 children, some of whom are adopted.Speaking to local…
Could there be an air of truth to the phrase "silent but deadly" when it comes to the spread of the coronavirus and the passing of flatulence? This may seem like a silly question, but it has been making the rounds the past few days after the public comments of two Australian doctors. The Australian…
On January 24, nine people from three families contracted Covid-19 while having lunch at a restaurant in Guangzhou, China. Another 81 who were in the eatery did not. The infections, according to an analysis by Center for Disease Control (CDC) experts in China, took place because the three families were in the draught of the…
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…