Patient receives dialysis at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.Mount SinaiSonia Toure remembers the exact moment when her life changed forever. She was on a Zoom call in mid-March with her work colleagues when she coughed. It was a deep, strange-sounding cough that startled everyone. Later that night she got a 103-degree fever and…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A large team of researchers with members affiliated with a host of institutions in France has identified what they believe is a hallmark of severe COVID-19 patients. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their study of 50 COVID-19 patients in France and what they learned from…
According to British neurologists, COVID-19 can cause serious damage to the brain and central nervous system. Such damage can lead to psychosis, paralysis and strokes, which are often detected in their late stages. There are numerous signs that the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 not only attacks the lungs and respiratory tract, but also other organs on…
Memorial Day weekend is in full swing, but if you're planning on going outside you might want to pack a poncho and umbrella. It's going to be a wet one in many areas across the US.
This system will likely become a tropical or subtropical depression Saturday.May 16, 2020, 10:30 AM4 min read Multiple storm systems brought significant weather to parts of the Northeast and the southern U.S. on Friday and the active weather is expected to continue through the next few days. A cluster of tropical rain showers east of…
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…