The remote Bay Area town of Bolinas is among the first communities in the world to attempt to test all of its residents for the novel coronavirus. Bolinas, population 1,600, will offer free tests Monday through Thursday to residents 4 years and older up, according to a statement from UC San Francisco, whose staffers will…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A spokesman for the International Association of EMTs and Paramedics warned Sunday that it's been tough for first responders to adjust to their new way of life on the front lines of the battle against the coronavirus crisis."It hasn't really gotten easier yet," the…
QUINCY (WGEM) — Blessing Hospital officials said Sunday that a Lewis County, Missouri, resident died of medical conditions complicated by COVID-19. Officials said the patient was their 80’s to 90’s. “The Blessing Health System team is saddened by the loss of a Tri-State resident to COVID-19. We express our deepest and sincerest sympathy to the…
BERN TWP., Pa. - Berks Heim has lost its first resident to the coronavirus.Berks County Commissioner Christian Leinbach announced Saturday that an 87-year-old woman in the county nursing home's dementia unit, Essex Commons, died Friday, the same day she tested positive for COVDI-19.Leinbach said the woman first showed symptoms of the virus on Thursday."The sad…
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…