A 12-year-old from Gage Park on the Southwest Side has died after being diagnosed with COVID-19, the youngest confirmed victim of the disease in Cook County, according to the medical examiner’s office. Ernesto Guzman was pronounced dead at 12:18 a.m. Thursday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the office. The primary…
Skip to content researchers wrote. Researchers said forensic and medical professionals should be wearing personal protective equipment like masks and gloves when they come in contact with a patient, living or dead, infected with the coronavirus. FILE PHOTO: Researchers believe a medical examiner in Thailand is the first person to die from the coronavirus after…
New York Daily News | Apr 16, 2020 | 11:48 AM A sign that reads "Khaosan Road prays for the world" hangs on the shuttered tourist haven on Wednesday in Bangkok, Thailand.(Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images) Researchers believe that a medical examiner in Thailand is the first person to die from coronavirus after contracting the disease from…
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…