A man wears a mask to protect himself from the coronavirus while running in front of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge along the Embarcadero in San Francisco on April 5, 2020. | Jeff Chiu/AP Photo OAKLAND — San Francisco is enlisting a cadre of outreach workers and a software company to track and trace Bay…
Medical workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are supposed to wear eye protection such as goggles or face shields, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — so could wearing eyeglasses offer some protection, too? A recent study by five ocular scientists published in Contact Lens & Anterior Eye,…
San Francisco's Coit Tower was lit up blue on April 9 as part of a nationwide tribute to health care workers and first responders on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images San Francisco's Coit Tower was lit up blue on April 9 as part…
Medical workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are supposed to wear eye protection such as goggles or face shields, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — so could wearing eyeglasses offer some protection, too?A recent study by five ocular scientists published in Contact Lens & Anterior Eye, a…
San Francisco unveiled a public health outreach plan Wednesday meant to help the city quickly test and identify people newly infected with the coronavirus, and to track down anyone they may have had contact with who could also become ill. The program is meant to augment the city’s contact tracing efforts, which are a long-standing…
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…