At least 25,600 residents and workers have died from the coronavirus at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities for older adults in the United States, according to a New York Times database. The virus so far has infected more than 143,000 at some 7,500 facilities. Long-term care facilities with at least one coronavirus case…
May 7, 2020 | 3:54pm More than one-third of Americans may not get a coronavirus vaccine if one becomes available, according to a new poll. While 64 percent of respondents to a survey by Morning Consult said they would get the shot, 22 percent were unsure and 14 percent said they would not get vaccinated.…
Nearly one in three Americans said they believe that it is 'probably' or 'definitely' true that a coronavirus vaccine exists and is being withheld from the public while almost half think COVID-19 was created in a lab, according to a new poll.The results are from a survey conducted by the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape…
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…