The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today. Emily Elconin / Reuters An ambulance pulls into the DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital emergency entrance amid an outbreak of the coronavirus in…
The Detroit News on Sunday reported that Skylar Herbert died after spending two weeks on a ventilator. The girl had tested positive for the coronavirus in March and developed a rare form of meningitis and brain swelling, according to the article.Skylar developed meningoencephalitis, a rare complication of the coronavirus, which caused swelling of brain tissue…
(WXYZ) — Questions continue to surround Beaumont Health’s decision to transfer all of their coronavirus patients out of their Wayne location. And now an Oakland County woman wants to know why doctors were pushing them to sign a Do Not Resuscitate order for her mother while still insisting the critical patient be sent to another…
Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press Published 7:47 p.m. ET April 17, 2020 | Updated 8:24 p.m. ET April 17, 2020CLOSEThe City of Detroit released new health statistics on Friday — the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases by ZIP code.Northwest Detroit's 48235 ZIP code had the highest infection rate with 162 cases per 10,000 residents. It also had the highest number…
More than 2,600 health care workers in the Detroit area either have been out sick with symptoms similar to those of COVID-19 or have tested positive for the coronavirus. Above, a police car leaves Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit on April 7. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty…
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…