UPMC doctors have started treating covid-19 patients with blood plasma from survivors – a technique not proven for coronavirus but successfully used to fight off outbreaks of measles and influenza. “The patients and their families of infected individuals who are in ICUs are really desperate for a therapy and that’s why we are focused on…
A wealthy, California beach town near Silicon Valley is to become one of the first communities in the world to test all its residents for both active COVID-19 and for the presence of antibodies revealing if they already had the disease.Residents of Bolinas, a reclusive Bay Area town, who are older than four can available…
The Detroit News on Sunday reported that Skylar Herbert died after spending two weeks on a ventilator. The girl had tested positive for the coronavirus in March and developed a rare form of meningitis and brain swelling, according to the article.Skylar developed meningoencephalitis, a rare complication of the coronavirus, which caused swelling of brain tissue…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The FDA has authorized the first diagnostic test with a home collection option for COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.In a statement released Tuesday, the FDA said that it had reissued an Emergency Use Authorization for LabCorp to COVID-19 RT-PCR…
NEWS The death is one of two COVID-19 related deaths in the Coastal Bend, the first being a man from Kleberg County. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Officials say the victim was a woman between the ages of 70 and 79 years old. Further details on the woman, including her name and area of residence, can…
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…