Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Published 10:49 a.m. ET July 23, 2020 | Updated 1:53 p.m. ET July 23, 2020CLOSE Hurricanes can deal massive damage to homes. Here are a few tips that can help minimize the damage. AccuweatherThe tropics are heating up as three separate systems are threatening havoc in the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf…
Polk Sheriff Grady Judd announces three arrests in Frostproof killings of three longtime friends, Arrested were brothers Tony "T.J." Wiggins and William "Robert" Wiggins, and T.J.’s girlfriend Mary Whittemore. BARTOW — A chance meeting at a dollar store in Frostproof last Friday night led to the shooting deaths minutes later of three friends who’d met…
Researchers in Hong Kong have found that patients suffering milder illness caused by the new coronavirus recover more quickly if they are treated with a three-drug antiviral cocktail soon after symptoms appear. The small trial, which involved 127 patients, compared those given the combination drug - made up of the anti-HIV therapy lopinavir-ritonavir, the hepatitis…
(CNN)A combination of three antiviral drugs plus an immune system booster seemed to help patients recover more quickly from coronavirus infections, doctors in Hong Kong reported Friday. They said the approach needs more testing but it could offer another tre…
SummaryBackgroundEffective antiviral therapy is important for tackling the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We assessed the efficacy and safety of combined interferon beta-1b, lopinavir–ritonavir, and ribavirin for treating patients with COVID-19.MethodsThis was a multicentre, prospective, open-label, randomised, phase 2 trial in adults with COVID-19 who were admitted to six hospitals in Hong Kong. Patients were…
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…