The United States is failing to report vital information on Covid-19 that could help track the spread of the disease and prevent the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans, according to the first comprehensive review of the nation’s coronavirus data. The report, Tracking Covid-19 in the United States, paints a bleak picture of the…
The visual cortex. (Geyer et al, Front. Hum. Neurosci. 2011) HENRY TAYLOR, THE CONVERSATION 5 JULY 2020 Imagine being completely blind but still being able to see. Does that sound impossible? Well, it happens.A few years ago, a man (let's call him Barry) suffered two strokes in quick succession. As a result, Barry was completely…
(CNN)The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was "never blind" to the early spread of the coronavirus in the United States, the agency's director, Dr. Robert Redfield, told reporters on Fri…
President Donald Trump’s latest comments about the United States’ coronavirus testing problem come straight out of the playbook he used to downplay the coronavirus problem in January and February. That’s not a reassuring thing. Trump seems to be in denial about the reality that experts say the US needs to more than double its daily…
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…