MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - Wisconsin health officials say another 5,099 COVID-19 tests have come back Sunday, with 537 people testing positive. The state’s total confirmed case count now sits at 75,337 since testing began in February.According to the Department of Health Services, 10.5% of the tests were positive for COVID-19, the illness brought on by…
The U.S. Army is asking for the public’s help in its search for another soldier missing from Fort Hood, Texas.Army officials at Fort Hood issued a missing soldier alert Thursday night for Sgt. Elder Fernandes, 23."Our primary concern is for his health and well-being," the Army said in the alert.Police in nearby Killeen, who are…
New research demonstrates that an existing drug, called Ebselen, has the potential to disrupt SARS-CoV-2. This is the virus responsible for COVID-19.Share on PinterestResearch based on computer modeling finds that Ebselen could be a promising drug against COVID-19.The recent study, which appears in the journal Science Advances, could help develop Ebselen as a new treatment…
There’s still so much we don’t know.The 2020 coronavirus and 1918 influenza are two highly contagious respiratory diseases that spread around the world in months, and lacked a vaccine when they first occurred. People couldn’t understand why they affected some people more than others. For the 1918 flu, healthier, younger people were most at risk.…
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…