Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY Published 6:21 p.m. ET May 11, 2020 | Updated 6:25 p.m. ET May 11, 2020CLOSE Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm talks about our lack of national plan and when we will have testing available. USA TODAYA COVID-19 expert says the virus could get much worse in a few months. Hate crime…
People walking along a closed street in East End Avenue in the Manhattan borough of New York City, US [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters] New York City's toll from the coronavirus may be thousands of fatalities higher than the official tally kept by the city and state, according to an analysis released Monday by the US Centers for…
Every week, it seems, the list of coronavirus symptoms -- ranging from disagreeable to deadly, from "COVID toes" to toxic shock -- grows longer. What began as a familiar flu-like cluster of chills, headaches and fever has rapidly expanded over the last three months into a catalogue of syndromes affecting most of the body's main organs.The…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A husband coughing up blood. A sister close to death. Another friend felled by the coronavirus. The beat against Congress has always been that its members are out of touch with average Americans. But that’s not true when it comes to the brutality of COVID-19 and its march across boundaries of wealth,…
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…