told KOIN (6) her husband’s doctors had been looking at such a treatment, but Jimenez’s blood type posed a challenge."There is research supporting that the convalescent plasma can be helpful for these patients,” his wife told the station. “He has a rare blood type which is AB-positive. We are also looking for people who have…
LOCAL Oregon’s statewide total is now 1,663 cases. PORTLAND, Ore. — Three more Oregonians have died from COVID-19, bringing the state’s death toll to 58 people, state health officials said Wednesday.The Oregon Health Authority reported the following details about the people who died:Oregon’s 56th COVID-19 death is an 82-year-old man in Marion County, who tested…
CORONAVIRUS Data released by the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department Wednesday shows there are 30 long-term care facilities in the county that have at least 1 positive case. TOLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo-Lucas County Health Department released data on coronavirus cases in long-term care facilities Wednesday afternoon, per the Ohio Department of Health new guidelines. There are…
2:35 PM ETMalika AndrewsESPN Staff Writer CloseStaff Writer Joined ESPN in 2018 Appears regularly on ESPN Chicago 1000For five-time NBA champion Earvin "Magic" Johnson, the parallels between the coronavirus pandemic and the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s are apparent."The same issues we had then, we have now, where bad information, myth about…
FILE PHOTO: David Nabarro, candidate for Director General of the World Health Organization, attends a news conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Pierre AlbouyDUBAI (Reuters) - The World Health Organization’s COVID-19 special envoy on Wednesday urged countries to focus on defeating the deadly virus after the United States halted funding to…
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…