Social-distancing measures have an exponential effect on the death toll from the coronavirus, according to medical experts.Implementing social-distancing protocols a week earlier in the US could have reduced deaths by an estimated 60% nationwide, and as much as 90% if implemented two weeks earlier, on March 2.The White House started issuing social distancing guidelines on…
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A study from Harvard has concluded that some form of off-and-on social distancing may need to continue until 2022 while a sufficient percent of the population builds up an immunity to the new coronavirus.Researchers from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health looked at two previous coronavirus outbreaks and projected that "recurrent wintertime outbreaks" would…
Is the U.S. getting close to being able to reopen, after weeks of social distancing? Experts say more work needs to be done ramping up systems including things like drive-through COVID-19 testing centers. Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images…
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…