The US state of New York has begun antibody tests for front-line healthcare workers.The screening programme will examine whether doctors and nurses working with infected patients have been contracting COVID-19 without showing any symptoms.Al Jazeera's Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from Silver Spring, Maryland.- Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find…
University of Miami researchers’ antibody testing out of Miami-Dade County in Florida showed that about 6% of the population has had the China-originated novel coronavirus, COVID-19, extrapolating to an estimated 165,000 infections countywide, about 16 times higher than reported.Since the recorded number of infections via the health department is well below that number, around 10,600…
Antibody testing looks for evidence that a person has been infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, but not the virus itself. James Martin/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. As some areas of the country begin to ease social restrictions put in place in response to the…
Published on Apr 23, 2020New York remains the worst affected state in the US with nearly 270000 cases of coronavirus so far but a new antibody study by the state shows that people infected could be far more. Watch report.#NewYorkCoronavirus #CoronavirusUS #COVID19About Channel:The World is One News, WION examines global issues with in-depth analysis. We…
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…