Coronavirus testing of more than 1,300 people who protested Minnesota’s Twin Cities after the death of George Floyd shows few new positive cases, according to a report.Health officials across the country have expressed fear the mass protests over the black man's death in police custody that have taken place over the past two weeks could lead to new…
June 15, 2020 | 12:09pm | Updated June 15, 2020 | 1:20pm Enlarge Image Protesters march from the governor's mansion to the state Capitol on June 1, 2020, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Only 1.4 percent of George Floyd protesters in Minnesota have tested positive for coronavirus since participating in the demonstrations, according…
Immune — Based on a harmless virus, the vaccine had side effects but elicited antibodies. John Timmer - May 26, 2020 5:34 pm UTC Enlarge / Test doses of another potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. MLADEN ANTONOV / Getty Images We still don't know how well a robust immune response protects people from SARS-CoV-2 infection. But we've…
Groups and relatives advocating for the release of prisoners at risk from the virus say they don’t begrudge well-connected people achieving that goal. The problem, they said, is that many other people who could meet Barr’s criteria languish in prison, without legal help, unable to understand the complex process or lacking connections to help them…
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…