After more than three months on lockdown, New York City began the biggest phase of its reopening on Monday, with workers streaming back into offices and some businesses such as hair salons resuming services. The coronavirus pandemic has forced those who normally toil in the city to stay at home since lockdown began in mid-March.…
Updated June 18, 2020 The Latest The top health official in Tulsa, Okla., said he worried that Saturday’s Trump rally could become a “super spreader” event for the coronavirus. Keep Up With Our Coverage Get an email recapping the day’s news Download our mobile app on iOS and Android and turn on Breaking News and…
As many as 400,000 people may return to work on Monday in a city still recovering from the pandemic and roiled by protests.At New Lab, a technology hub in Brooklyn, workers will undergo temperature checks and have the choice of wearing a device that buzzes whenever colleagues get too close to each other.Credit...James Estrin/The New…
The state reported Monday that the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Massachusetts had risen by 189 and that the number of cases had climbed by 3,840 as state officials announced they had begun including probable as well as confirmed cases in its tallies.The new inclusion pushed the state’s death tally past 7,000 and…
The military has begun testing troops for COVID-19 antibodies, and might soon ask them to "stick your arm out" to draw blood for possible use as a novel coronavirus therapy, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has urged caution, warning that current antibody tests can yield…
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…