Antibodies to the virus faded quickly in asymptomatic people, scientists reported. That does not mean immunity disappears.Medical workers helped carry a patient who recovered from Covid-19 from a hospital in Wuhan, China, on Wednesday.Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJune 18, 2020, 2:40 p.m. ETIt’s a question that has haunted scientists since the pandemic began: Does everyone…
Dressed in a blue long-sleeve shirt and seated in the basement of his suburban home outside of New York City, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell spoke in a subdued voice on camera, and admitted that the league had poorly mishandled player activism.“We, the National Football League, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players…
For more than a year, Onyx Johnson spent many of her days visiting her 17-year-old daughter, Ariana, a former honor-roll student and athlete, at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children in Queens, where she was recovering from traumatic brain injury she suffered when hit by a motorist in 2018.“I couldn’t imagine being without her, or her…
Elected officials are exploring changes ranging from defunding police departments to requiring more accountability.Protesters in Washington painted the phrase “defund the police” onto 16th Street on Saturday night. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesMINNEAPOLIS — In an abrupt change of course, the mayor of New York vowed to cut the budget of the nation’s largest police force.…
Workers board up windows of a store in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, where some nonessential businesses are allowed to reopen starting Monday after an almost three-month lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP Workers board up windows of a store in the SoHo neighborhood of…
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…