Infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Hotez says people are "relaxing social distancing to a much greater extent than we thought" and warns of a second COVID-19 wave. HOUSTON — As Texas wraps up its first full weekend of partial reopening, Houston mayor Sylvester Turner is urging caution. "Don't act as if this virus is gone,"…
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With pleasant weather expected in New York City this weekend, Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded with residents to resist the impulse to gather outdoors.Right NowThe daily coronavirus death toll in New York increased slightly, with Governor Cuomo reporting 299 new deaths. Cases and deaths in New York State Feb. 26 May 1 7-day average New…
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BOSTON (AP) — Before her double-lung transplant, Joanne Mellady could barely put on a shirt without losing her breath. Afterwards, she barely stopped moving.Mellady, who died of the coronavirus in March, had a bucket list that made her family blush.Since getting her transplant in 2007, the widow and former technology consultant from the town of…
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…