In the race to find a vaccine for the coronavirus, a DeLand lab has been selected as a site for a clinical research trial. Accel Clinical Research has been chosen by the Biotech company Moderna to oversee trials of a COVID-19 vaccine."We've been absolutely ecstatic about it," said Dr. Bruce Rankin, the lab’s medical director.…
Texas authorities have charged a former volunteer for LULAC, a major Hispanic civil and voting rights organization, with voter fraud after she cast two ballots in the state’s March 3 primaries. But the national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens says the woman’s votes were an innocent accident, and he said the…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.More than 20,000 people have signed up to voluntarily be exposed to the novel coronavirus in a yet-to-be formulated “human classified trial.” The trial, being led by a group called 1Day Sooner, is meant to speed up vaccine development, but…
This spring, as the United States faced a critical shortage of masks, gloves and other protective equipment to battle the coronavirus pandemic, a South Carolina physician reached out to the Federal Emergency Management Agency with an offer of help.Dr. Jeffrey Hendricks had longtime manufacturing contacts in China and a line on millions of masks from…
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…