UC Berkeley public health professors are launching a major study of people in the East Bay who show no coronavirus symptoms but could have it. Photo: Google Street View It’s common knowledge that someone can be infected with COVID-19 without showing symptoms: That’s why we’re wearing masks, shouting to healthy neighbors from across the street…
Berkeleyside is sharing this message from city of Berkeley Health Officer Dr. Lisa Hernandez. It was published Friday evening and appears below in full. Today, I issued an Order mandating the use of face coverings for everyone especially customers and workers in essential businesses so that infected people without symptoms don’t unintentionally spread COVID-19. While…
FILE -- San Francisco Mayor London Breed, speaks about new measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, in San Francisco, Monday, March 16, 2020. Breed announced a shelter in place order days before the rest of California and nearly a week before New York. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) less FILE -- San Francisco…
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…