A member of the Alabama National Guard work to disinfect a nursing home in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19.Army Sgt. Jaccob HearnMost Southern states now report data about coronavirus cases in state-licensed nursing homes, but not Alabama.Mississippi became the latest state required to publish the number of coronavirus cases in each facility…
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania health officials have also turned their attention to another disease related to COVID-19.State Health Secretary Rachel Levine says some children are developing a serious condition called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome, or MIS-C, as a complication from COVID-19. It's similar to Kawasaki disease, officials said.So far, there have been nine confirmed cases in the…
SÃO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - In mid-March, Brazil took what seemed to be a forceful early strike against the coronavirus pandemic. FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro wearing a protective and other Brazil's ministers attend a national flag hoisting ceremony in front the Alvorada Palace, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brasilia, Brazil…
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…