Health experts are worried about whether coronavirus vaccines under development will adequately protect the elderly, sparking efforts to make sure there are shots that can help the vulnerable group. Older adults are especially susceptible to infection by the virus, and at higher risk of falling critically ill and dying, at least partly because their immune…
U.S.|What Would Efforts to Defund or Disband Police Departments Really Mean?Much is not yet certain, but here’s what is known so far about some efforts to defund or abolish police departments.Protesters walk in a Defund the Police march Saturday, in Minneapolis.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York TimesJune 8, 2020Updated 2:12 p.m. ETMINNEAPOLIS — Across…
Measures that have kept Chicagoans in their homes in an effort to flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic have had another benefit, experts say — stopping a nasty influenza season. According to data from the Illinois Department of Public Health, the 2019-20 influenza season, now winding down, was particularly harsh. But hospitalizations and other…
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…