As President Trump continues his full-court press this holiday weekend against states moving to expand voting by mail, a new national poll indicates that by a more than 2-to-1 margin Americans favor allowing balloting through the mail in November’s general election due to health concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic.Sixty-three percent of those questioned in the latest…
Cases increased rapidly at Firestone Pacific Foods as a result of mass testing Friday Published: May 22, 2020, 6:56pm This illustration shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. A food processing company in Vancouver’s Fruit Valley neighborhood has become the center of one of the Portland metro area’s largest cluster of COVID-19 cases to date. As of…
SERA: TESTING FOR ANTIBODIES HA BEEN CONSIDERED KEY. IT’S BEEN DONE IN COMMUNITIES LIKE BOSTON AND CHELSEA, AND NOW BROOKLINE STUDY RESULTS ARE GIVING A BETTER GLIMPSE OF THE VIRUS. THIS TOOK PLACE LAST WEEK OVER TWO DAYS. VOLUNTEERS WERE TESTED AT A DRIVE THROUGH SITE WHERE A FINGER PRICK SAMPLE OF THEIR BLOOD WAS…
A study suggests that substantially more people have been infected by the coronavirus than what Los Angeles County’s confirmed case count shows, backing previous findings from preliminary serology findings reported last month.The study tested 865 people for coronavirus antibodies during the second week of April, when roughly 8,430 cases of the virus had been confirmed…
All attendees have been advised to self-quarantine.May 17, 2020, 11:54 PM4 min read California public health officials have notified more than 180 people that they may have been exposed to the coronavirus at a religious service held in violation of the state's stay-at-home order. The Butte County public health department said Friday that an attendee…
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…