STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's top epidemiologist said on Tuesday a rapid decline in new critical COVID-19 cases alongside slowing death rates indicated that Sweden's strategy for slowing the epidemic, which has been widely questioned abroad, was working.Sweden has foregone a hard lockdown throughout the outbreak, a strategy that set it apart from most of Europe.Chief…
Enlarge / People walk past a social distancing sign outside the Royal Botanic Garden on May 31, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Policy decisions to re-open facilities or to encourage citizens to shelter in place don't come out of nowhere—there's often (hopefully) data behind the scenes.James D. Morgan/Getty Images One of the least expected aspects of…
The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that consumers don't have to worry about contracting the coronavirus from grocery packaging. However, the Centers for Disease Control and other experts say the opposite. What is the FDA saying? In a release on its website, the FDA wrote, "We want to reassure consumers that there is currently…
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…