ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Nearly 50 residents have been moved from a Minneapolis area senior living facility after an outbreak of the coronavirus made many staff members too sick to care for residents. The Minnesota Department of Health tells the Star Tribune that a majority of staff members and administrators at the 50-bed Meridian…
April 19, 2020 | 10:10am | Updated April 19, 2020 | 2:47pm Nearly 60% of Americans say they’re more concerned that loosening stay-at-home measures will cause further spread of the coronavirus than they are about what impact restrictions might have on the US economy, according to a new poll. The NBC News/WSJ poll released Sunday…
At least 6,900 people living in nursing homes in the U.S. have died of the coronavirus, according to The New York Times. Data analyzed by USA Today earlier this week showed state agencies have reported more than 3,000 people have died in nursing homes across 37 states. Data from the Times shows much more than that, revealing that about…
Across California, thousands of health care workers have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus. Yet, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that transmission is relatively rare when a doctor, nurse or other worker has brief contact with a patient and is wearing appropriate protective gear. As of April…
Doug Schneider, Green Bay Press-Gazette Published 3:26 p.m. CT April 16, 2020 | Updated 4:29 p.m. CT April 16, 2020GREEN BAY - In Brown County's largest increase since the pandemic began, the number of COVID-19 cases among county residents rose by 35 from Wednesday to Thursday.The county has had 139 residents diagnosed with the coronavirus through…
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…