The buzzy idea is impractical, critics said. And there isn’t yet real-world data to show it will work.Rapid antigen tests aren’t very good at picking up low-level infections, but they’re cheap, convenient and fast.Credit...Dibyangshu Sarkar/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesSept. 6, 2020, 8:00 a.m. ETOver the past few weeks, a Harvard scientist has made headlines for…
The authors of a recent study found that healthy older adults who took a daily, low dose of aspirin were at higher risk of receiving a diagnosis of advanced cancers and dying from cancer than those who took a placebo. Share on PinterestA recent study shows that older adults may be more at risk of…
The latest CBS News Battleground Tracker poll found that the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is leading President Trump in Michigan by six points, and Mr. Trump has a slight 1-point edge in Ohio, where he won by 8 percentage points in 2016. An analysis by Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, Kabir Khanna and Elena Cox in the…
Daily deaths due to Covid-19 on Tuesday surpassed 1,000 for the first time in the US since the start of June, as Donald Trump admitted the crisis would get worse before it got better. The seven-day …
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of 10:00 a.m., on July 20, 2020, there have been 233,490 total confirmatory laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 5,080 total cases and 100 deaths. In alignment with updated definitions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the dashboard includes probable cases…
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…