April 17, 2020 | 2:01am Six elderly South Carolina residents — including a married couple — died of coronavirus a feweeks after attending the same funeral, according to a report. All six of the deceased were African Americans and over 60-years-old, both categories at high risk of contracting the disease caused by the novel coronavirus,…
NEW DELHI (AP) — With no approved drugs for the new coronavirus, some people are turning to alternative medicines, often with governments promoting them.This is most evident in India and China, densely populated countries with a deep history and tradition of touting such treatments, and where there’s sometimes limited access to conventional medicine.In India, where…
A nursing home in northern Illinois has become one of the latest US care facilities to report a deadly outbreak of COVID-19. Twenty-two residents and one staff member at the Symphony of Joliet have died after testing positive for coronavirus, a spokeswoman for the facility announced Wednesday. More than 4,810 deaths have been linked to coronavirus outbreaks…
TOPLINEResearch published in the medical journal Nature Medicine on Wednesday suggests people with the COVID-19 coronavirus were at their most infectious right when symptoms began, or even a few days before, presenting yet another hurdle for containing its spread. WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 15: A man wears a face mask as he boards a metro…
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…