The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in mass layoffs, which may be exacerbating the opioid epidemic.Drug overdoses in America have been trending upward for decades, and now the coronavirus pandemic appears to have exacerbated the problem as more people deal with losing their jobs.The Centers for Disease Control last week reported there were a record 70,980 drug overdose…
/ Live news Issued on: 01/07/2020 - 17:14Modified: 01/07/2020 - 17:13 A worker handles remains at a crematorium in New York on June 5, 2020 Johannes EISELE AFP/File Washington (AFP) The coronavirus pandemic in the US claimed at least 122,000 more lives than would be expected in a normal year, for a rise of 18…
CLOSE When will it hit and what will it look like? Those are just a few unanswered questions about a possible second wave of COVID-19. USA TODAYNew York City doctors say the coronavirus is triggering a surge in strokes in younger patients, causing alarm among medical experts.Over a two-week period, Mount Sinai doctors reported five…
Contamination at CDC labs caused a significant delay in the agency providing COVID-19 test kits to states that needed them, according to reports from The Washington Post and CNN. The Post reports that scientists and federal regulators say that the CDC laboratories that assembled the test kits did not take proper precautions to avoid cross-contamination…
Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday, along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today’s WorldView newsletter.Of all the mysteries about the novel coronavirus, its origin excites the most fervent debate. At the outbreak’s beginning, there were conspiracy theories that 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…