TOPLINE In a scathing editorial published this week, The Lancet, one of the world's most respected medical journals, harshly criticized the Trump administration's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and suggested that Americans should look for new leadership during the upcoming election. WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 14: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on his…
A 12-year-old from Gage Park on the Southwest Side has died after being diagnosed with COVID-19, the youngest confirmed victim of the disease in Cook County, according to the medical examiner’s office. Ernesto Guzman was pronounced dead at 12:18 a.m. Thursday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the office. The primary…
A federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, that houses roughly 1,700 people is destroying medical records as part of a deliberate effort to obscure the number of incarcerated people infected with the coronavirus and to avoid providing them adequate care, alleges the report of a medical expert who toured the facility April 23 as part of a…
Two doctors who run an urgent care clinic in Bakersfield, California have made a viral sensation of themselves by going against the recommendations of experts in epidemiology and advocating for the immediate reopening of the country.In a video that's been shared widely across social media, Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi claim that, based on…
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…