Image copyright Getty Images The government has promised to step up testing for coronavirus in care homes where symptoms of the virus have been found. But is it possible to get accurate figures about the scale of the problem?How many deaths have there been in care homes? This is difficult to calculate - there are…
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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…
Supermarket shoppers in New York stand apart from each other amid calls to practise social distancing. Photo: AFP Social distancing may need to continue or be used intermittently for next two years even if the virus were seemingly eliminated, researchers say Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that distancing in the US could be eased this…
Image copyright Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic could have a "profound" effect on people's mental health - now and in the future, say psychiatrists and psychologists who are calling for urgent research.Writing in The Lancet Psychiatry, they say smartphones should be used to monitor mental health in real time.They say support would need to be…
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…