The largest U.S. genetic study of the virus, conducted in Houston, shows one viral strain outdistancing all of its competitors, and many potentially important mutations Chris MooneyReporter covering climate change, energy and the environment. Joe FoxGeneral assignment graphics reporter September 23 at 2:31 PM Scientists in Houston on Wednesday released a study of more than…
July 22, 2020 | 2:29pm | Updated July 22, 2020 | 3:59pm Enlarge Image Healthcare workers check patients in to a city-run COVID-19 testing location in New York EPA/Justin Lane A new coronavirus mutation has become the most dominant strain of the virus — and is causing outbreaks to spread more quickly across the world,…
The new coronavirus in Arizona A sunrise of hope. The number of people diagnosed with COVID-19 grows every day in the state with 116,892 cases and 2,082 deaths in Arizona as of July 10, 2020. Nick Oza/The Republic The new coronavirus in Arizona People wait in their cars for a COVID-19 test at a drive-through…
The country’s top infectious disease expert said Thursday that a more infectious strain of the coronavirus may be emerging.Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made the claim Thursday in an interview with The Journal of the American Medical Association.The main difference between the two, Fauci said, is that Italy’s…
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…