We are publishing personal essays from CNN's global staff as they live and cover the story of Covid-19. Julie Gallagher is a politics planning editor for CNN, based in Washington DC. (CNN)"These pa…
MELBOURNE, Australia — A new wave of coronavirus infections prompted officials to impose restrictions on some 5 million people in Australia's second-largest city, illustrating the difficulty of conquering the pandemic even in a country that had enjoyed relative success in taming its toll.Authorities in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria state, said they would reinstate curbs…
SAN FRANCISCO -- A nurse in San Francisco went viral after he posted a shocking before and after photo of his battle with COVID-19.Mike Shultz spent more than six weeks in a Boston-area hospital where he spent most of the time on a ventilator.Shultz, who goes by moniker The Bearded Nurse on Instagram, shared his…
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…