Inadequate testing and protracted delays in producing results have crippled tracking and hampered efforts to contain major outbreaks.Contact tracing in an office at the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County in May.Credit...Lynne Sladky/Associated PressJuly 31, 2020Updated 10:01 a.m. ETIn Arizona’s most populated region, the coronavirus is so ubiquitous that contact tracers have been unable…
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When humans cut their way through forests to dig up gold and other minerals that go into phones, computers, and other devices, they run the risk of being a catalyst for a phenomenon called “spillover.” That’s what happens when a virus makes the leap from one species to another. It’s how two-thirds of new infectious…
(CNN)Despite hopes for relief this summer, the US is battling the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic -- so much so that across the South and Southwest contact tracing is no longer possible, accordin…
Someone lets call her Person A catches the coronavirus. Its a Monday. She goes about life, unaware her body is incubating a killer. By perhaps Thursday, shes contagious. Only that weekend does she co…
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…