AMHERST, MASS. (WHDH) - A recent graduate of UMass Amherst’s MFA program recently died after a lengthy battle with coronavirus after reportedly being denied testing for COVID-19 on two occasions. Rana Zoe Mungin, a beloved social studies teacher at the Ascend Academy in Brooklyn who graduated from the university in 2015, died Monday from complications…
Christopher Gavin, Boston.com Staff April 22, 2020 | 10:46 AM UMass Memorial Medical Center says its seeing encouraging results after performing its first plasma transfusion for a severely ill COVID-19 patient at the Worcester hospital. “After hours of transfusion, the patient has dramatically improved overall and is now starting to wean off of the ventilator…
COVID-19 patients who are willing to donate plasma to help treat patients currently suffering from the respiratory illness, the system has reported success with its first such treatment.Online, UMass Memorial has put out a call for people local to Central Massachusetts who are fully recovered from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The…
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…