Even with case counts and death tolls climbing across the US, many Americans have clung to the hope that, if they contracted the coronavirus, the illness would pass quickly or even asymptomatically. A new study released today by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, however, shows that a large percentage of the US may…
An analysis of viral genetic sequences from two dogs infected with SARS-CoV-2 shows that they likely caught the infection from their owners, according to a paper published in Nature. The researchers studied the dogs and members of the infected households in Hong Kong, and found that the viral genetic sequences in the dogs were identical…
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…