The rapid spread of COVID-19 has launched a flurry of new tests for the highly contagious virus, as researchers and medical providers race to track and understand the pandemic. Yet Illinois — like most of the country — lagged in testing for much of March and April, though more testing has been ramping up across…
April 18, 2020 | 4:55pm Enlarge Image The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Reuters/Tami Chappell A “glaring scientific breakdown” at the CDC’s main laboratory was behind the federal agency’s failure to quickly make a coronavirus test kit, according to a new report. One of the three test components became contaminated because the…
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…