While wearing masks could help reduce the spread of coronavirus, there is some risk that fit and healthy people could find themselves at greater risk of infection by wearing them, a medic has warned.Professor Martin Marshall, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said it would make sense to advise the public to wear…
While wearing masks could help reduce the spread of coronavirus, there is some risk that fit and healthy people could find themselves at greater risk of infection by wearing them, a medic has warned.Professor Martin Marshall, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said it would make sense to advise the public to wear…
Published on Apr 17, 2020Francis Wilson, 29, was on a ventilator for 10 days after testing positive for covid-19 in Virginia. Here’s his message to young adults.Wilson, a George Mason University law student, was among the first wave of coronavirus patients admitted to a Washington-area hospital in March 2020. He was an outlier — young,…
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…