HOUSTON – As key metrics like the infection rate and ICU hospitalizations trend downward for the first time in months, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo says it’s not yet time to reduce the county’s COVID-19 threat level.At present, Harris County is at the highest threat level: Red level 1.Hidalgo told KPRC 2 Monday that scaling…
Andrew Goff / Today @ 4:20 p.m. / COVID-19 and Humboldt ‘We Feel Like We’re Losing Control,’ Humboldt County Public Health Nurse Tells Bloomberg News In an article published by Bloomberg today, famed journalist Michael Lewis — author of Moneyball, The Big Short and The Fifth Risk, amongst other notable works — writes about his…
The Flagler Department of Health confirmed today that a 50-year-old woman died of Covid-19, the third death of a Flagler County resident attributed to the disease in three days, bringing the county’s total to eight. The county also reported 26 new positive cases of coronavirus, a single-day record, bringing the week’s total so far to…
William Haseltine, PhD, is chair and president of the global health think tank, ACCESS Health International. He is author of numerous books, including the recently released, "A Family Guide to COVID-…
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…