The Polk County Pediatric Medical Collaborative confirmed to KCCI that Iowa has its first confirmed case of Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (PMIS)."A very small portion of children with COVID are the ones who will suffer with this," said Nivedita Krishnan, the medical director of the pediatric urgent care at MercyOne Des Moines. Dr. Moshe Arditi,…
A Defense Department spokesman on Friday confirmed that the Pentagon is developing hypersonic weapons after President Trump, earlier in the day, claimed the existence of a “super duper missile.”“The Department of Defense is working on developing a range of hypersonic missiles to counter our adversaries,” tweeted Jonathan Hoffman, the Defense Department press secretary.During an Oval Office…
A pediatric illness thought to be linked to the coronavirus has been reported in several states. Beth Nakamura/StaffA patient at a Portland children’s hospital is being treated for an inflammatory illness linked to the new coronavirus, state public health officials confirmed Wednesday. The girl previously had contracted COVID-19 and exhibited symptoms of pediatric inflammatory multisystem…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed on-record for the first time Thursday that the U.S. intelligence community is investigating whether the coronavirus outbreak, which has wreaked havoc across the globe, started as the result of an accident…
Colorado has confirmed 14,758 cases of the novel coronavirus in the state and 766 deaths, according to data released Wednesday by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Officials believe the actual number of coronavirus cases to be much higher than the count confirmed through lab tests, due to both limited testing and asymptomatic…
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…