Orange County reported 227 new cases of COVID-19 and four more deaths Saturday, bringing the county's totals to 51,873 cases and 1,127 fatalities. Hospitalizations in the county inched up from 201 Friday to 202, with the number of intensive care unit patients rising from 64 to 65, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency.…
President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that a White House staff member tested positive for the coronavirus.But the unnamed person who contracted the disease did not "affect" the large, in-person gathering with a number of world leaders that took place on the White House south lawn a day earlier, Trump's spokeswoman assured.Questions had arisen earlier in the…
Asymptomatic children can transmit COVID-19 to adults, research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed. A new CDC study, published on Friday, traced 184 students, teachers and family members connected to three daycare centers in Salt Lake City, Utah between April 1 and July 10. Doctors and researchers have noted that children are less…
Georgia health officials have confirmed that a 7-year-old boy with no underlying conditions has become the youngest person in the state to die from COVID-19.The African-American boy was infected with the disease after attending a Savannah church where he was in contact with two senior members who were also stricken with the virus and died, the local…
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…