A Detroit nurse filed a whistleblower lawsuit Monday against the Detroit Medical Center for her firing during the coronavirus pandemic.A video of Kenisa Barkai, 38, of Woodhaven decked out in a gown, gloves, a hair covering and a face mask at DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital was used as an excuse to fire her last month, according…
Lisa Kaczke, Sioux Falls Argus Leader Published 11:22 a.m. CT April 21, 2020 | Updated 4:00 p.m. CT April 21, 2020CLOSEThe state paid $11 million in state unemployment benefits and $9.6 million in federal unemployment funds last week. Before the pandemic, the state typically paid $540,000 per week in unemployment benefits, South Dakota Labor Secretary Marcia…
An announcement is expected to be made this week about the rollout of more testing for the coronavirus in Minnesota.During Tuesday's media briefing, Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said Minnesotans can expect more news on the state's testing capacity in the coming days.Both the Mayo Clinic and M Health Fairview have both announced in the past…
The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine could protect people from severe COVID-19, according to scientists. Researchers at the University of Cambridge said the jab could protect people because the rubella virus has a similar structure to SARS-CoV-2.They pointed out that middle-aged and older people are less likely to have had the jabs, which came out…
Hundreds of protesters gathered at state capitals in North Carolina and Missouri to protest stay-at-home orders Tuesday, the latest in a wave of demonstrations against statewide restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus.The small protests featured demonstrators — many of them wearing gear promoting President Donald Trump and waving "Don't Tread on Me" and…
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…