Public health nurse Lee Cherie Booth conducts a test for Covid-19 outside of the Salt Lake City Public Health Center. When a swab test comes back positive, contact tracing starts. | Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP The country only has a fraction of workers needed to trace the coronavirus, as health departments are…
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Finally! This was the week millions Americans were expecting to receive their $1,200 stimulus payments from the federal government. The funds, part of the $2.2 trillion-dollar Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, are meant to provide a much needed cash infusion for individuals struggling due to the economic downturn. "We expect over 80…
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…