WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump vowed to defeat the coronavirus by "unleashing American scientific genius" as he toured a Covid-19 vaccine facility in the swing state of North Carolina on Monday. Trump appears to have pinned his hopes on the swift emergence of a successful vaccine to both contain the country's still raging epidemic and…
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - Idaho officials reported 517 new COVID-19 cases and six new deaths on Monday. This brings the total confirmed and probable cases reported since March to 18,694. There are a total of 17,565 confirmed cases and 1,129 probable cases in 41 of the 44 Idaho counties, according to numbers released from…
Press release from the Humboldt County Joint Information Center: Humboldt County’s total COVID-19 case count rose to 217, as 12 additional cases have been reported. While this is the largest single-day increase since the outbreak began, today’s report includes all new cases since Friday’s report.Since last Monday’s update of case distribution by age, 28 cases…
This story originally appeared on STAT, a health and medicine website that provides ambitious coverage of the coronavirus. Go here for more stories on the virus. Try STAT Plus for exclusive analysis of biotech, pharma, and the life sciences. And check out STAT’s COVID-19 tracker. Two new studies from Germany paint a sobering picture of the toll that Covid-19 takes on the…
Two new studies from Germany paint a sobering picture of the toll that Covid-19 takes on the heart, raising the specter of long-term damage after people recover, even if their illness was not severe enough to require hospitalization. One study examined the cardiac MRIs of 100 people who had recovered from Covid-19 and compared them…
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…