Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in stay-at-home orders that are putting young children at risk of contracting measles, polio and diphtheria, according to a report released Friday by the World Health Organization (WHO).Routine childhood immunizations in at least 68 countries have…
Even small differences in timing would have prevented the worst exponential growth, which by April had subsumed New York City, New Orleans and other major cities, researchers found.May 20, 2020Updated 11:14 p.m. ET Total reported deaths in the United States on May 3 Estimated deaths on May 3 if social distancing started one week earlier…
Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests some of which have been connected with Covid-19 cases are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring one…
Image copyright AFP Image caption A vending machine for masks in a Berlin U-Bahn (underground) station Across the world, countries are embarking on enormous experiments in ending coronavirus lockdown measures - and others are looking on nervously, asking themselves what's the best way back to normality. There's no international consensus over how best to do…
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…