Getty Creative Images Six, elderly Black South Carolinians recently passed away from the coronavirus after attending a funeral in southern Kershaw County, officials confirmed, highlighting the viral nature of the deadly virus. According to the State, coroners say that the cases were almost certainly a result of attending that particular funeral, which was held the…
identifying some New York nursing homes where residents have died of coronavirus.Most of the homes are in the New York City area. Cobble Hill Health Center in Brooklyn has had 55 deaths, the most of any nursing home in the state.The state said it is not identifying nursing homes with fewer than five deaths for…
Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin speaks with President Donald J. Trump and members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, April 02, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)The Washington PostAmericans generally are required to file a tax…
The sudden, grim revelations about a makeshift morgue crammed with 17 bodies at a New Jersey nursing home — where at least 26 people are now dead from the coronavirus—has left family members in shock and terrified for the safety of their loved ones.“It is absolutely shocking and heartbreaking," said Sonia Grunwald, whose 94-year-old mother…
New York region’s nursing homes with devastating and deadly speed, killing thousands of residents at facilities struggling with staff shortages, increasingly sick patients and a lack of personal protective gear.But with beds for 700 patients, Andover Subacute is, records show, the state’s largest licensed facility — and the risk of continued spread is terrifying 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…