The fragmented U.S. health care system has hampered efforts to expand coronavirus testing, by making it difficult for hospitals to switch to new labs with ample capacity.Fyodor Urnov, a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, oversaw a massive effort to begin testing for the coronavirus, but then found that many hospitals didn’t want the…
Piers Roberts, whose daughter is seriously ill in hospital with Kawasaki disease after recovering from coronavirus, hit out at the government's decision to reopen schools. (Picture: PA)A devastated father whose five-year-old daughter is in intensive care after contracting Kawasaki disease just weeks after recovering from coronavirus has hit out at the government’s plans to reopen…
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…