Massachusetts now has the lowest COVID-19 transmission rate of any state in the country, according to a website that has been compiling state data and tracking transmission trends. The current Rt for the coronavirus in Massachusetts — a measure of a virus’s average transmission rate at a given point in time — is estimated at…
TOPLINE Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a press conference on Friday that New York now has the lowest rate of coronavirus transmission out of every state in the country, as many other states that have begun reopening now see a dramatic spike in new cases. "We’re at a pivotal point with the coronavirus," Cuomo said.…
Gov Andrew Cuomo shared an outline on Sunday that details how businesses could possibly reopen in New York as the state sees 367 deaths in a day, the lowest single-day toll since March 31. 'The descent continues,' Cuomo said during his press conference. 'We are now back to where we were on March 31.'Cuomo said that 1,087…
Monday marked the lowest number of coronavirus-related fatalities in the U.S. in two weeks, just days after the number of deaths had spiked to 4,591 in a single day. According to Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. lost 1,433 people to coronavirus on April 20, adding to the overall death toll of 42,364.According to the data,…
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…