This virus is deadly, long-lived and highly contagious, but it doesn’t affect people or other animals.An eastern cottontail rabbit in Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas.Credit...Education Images/Universal Images Group, via Getty ImagesMay 18, 2020, 5:11 p.m. ETThere’s another deadly virus outbreak in the U.S., but this one is killing thousands of wild rabbits. It…
Wearing a face mask does not activate a secret, vaccine-delivered form of the coronavirus in your system, regardless of what one disgraced scientist says on social media. And no, there is no evidence that Bill Gates is orchestrating it all to make himself even richer.Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube and Twitter are taking steps to slow the…
Research Viral load dynamics... Viral load dynamics and disease severity in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Zhejiang province, China, January-March 2020: retrospective cohort study Research BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1443 (Published 21 April 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m1443 Read our latest coverage of the coronavirus pandemic Shufa Zheng, assistant research fellow1234, Jian Fan, associate…
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…