In One Chart Published: Aug. 8, 2020 at 5:59 a.m. ET America’s COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. could reach nearly 300,000 by Dec. 1, according to a new projection ‘As infections drop, people let their guard down and stop taking these measures to protect themselves,’ said Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health…
As young patients fill new virus wards, Houston Methodist is calling nurses to work extra shifts and ramping up its testing efforts.Melissa Estrada, 37, receiving oxygen in a hospital room at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston on Saturday.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York TimesPublished June 28, 2020Updated June 29, 2020, 12:57 a.m. ETHOUSTON — Melissa Estrada had…
DAVIS, Calif. — The community around the University of California, Davis, used to have a population of 70,000 and a thriving economy. Rentals were tight. Downtown was jammed. Hotels were booked months in advance for commencement. Students swarmed to the town’s bar crawl, sampling the trio of signature cocktails known on campus as “the Davis…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A husband coughing up blood. A sister close to death. Another friend felled by the coronavirus. The beat against Congress has always been that its members are out of touch with average Americans. But that’s not true when it comes to the brutality of COVID-19 and its march across boundaries of wealth,…
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…