September 26, 2020 | 11:06am Enlarge Image Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO's emergencies program, speaks at a news conference in February. Denis Balibouse/Reuters About a third of New Yorkers and less than a tenth of American adults were exposed to the coronavirus by the end of July, a new study of dialysis patients found.…
By Mark Dunphy Updated 12:01 pm CDT, Tuesday, July 14, 2020 At University Hospital, where the hallways are busy with nurses and other staff, more space and resources have been set aside to handle the skyrocketing number of coronavirus infections that started in June. At University Hospital, where the hallways are busy with nurses and other…
Chicago Tribune | Jul 05, 2020 at 9:10 PM As many Chicagoans were celebrating the Fourth of July with barbecues and after-dinner fireworks, relatives of Natalia Wallace were experiencing the worst day of their lives. The 7-year-old girl was one of at least 80 people shot, at least 17 of those fatally, across the city…
Sweden has revealed that despite adopting more relaxed measures to control coronavirus, only 7.3% of people in Stockholm had developed the antibodies needed to fight the disease by late April.
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…