A rat sits in the road outside 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Britain’s Prime Minister, in central London on May 12, 2020. TOLGA AKMEN/Getty Images With restaurants closed, humans who don’t know how—or don’t like—to cook aren’t the only ones getting desperate. Rats have also suddenly seen their lives turned upside-down by the…
Susan Miller, USA TODAY Published 12:23 p.m. ET May 24, 2020 CLOSE It could be a long time before your neighborhood restaurant looks like it did before the pandemic. USA TODAYThey are furry and they are furious – and they may be the most desperate of diners to yearn for restaurants to unlock from shutdown. Rats, it seems, haven't…
One of the most important pieces of safety gear for health care workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic is the N95 mask, designed to filter out 95 percent of airborne particles. But the surge of patients with the highly contagious disease has meant way more demand than supply. Now, scientists are exploring whether it’s possible to…
Stephen Garcia's family is frantic. The auto body worker, just 32 years old, has been on a ventilator in a Los Angeles-area hospital for nearly two weeks, gravely ill with COVID-19, unresponsive — and unaware of the battle they're waging on his behalf.For days, Garcia's mother, his aunt and his girlfriend have pleaded with doctors…
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…