Your DIY face masks could use a pretty easy upgrade. A new study revealed there's a way to make your cloth masks significantly more effective—and you probably have multiple sitting in your sock drawer or hanging in your closet.In recent weeks, CDC guidelines have advised all Americans to wear a face mask outside of the…
12.19am EDT 00:19 Luke Henriques-Gomes Children unlikely to transmit coronavirus, says study cited in Australian PM’s push to reopen schools A new report, cited by Australia’s chief medical officer as the federal government advocates the reopening of schools, says children are unlikely to transmit Covid-19 between each other or to adults. The study by NSW…
President Donald Trump is threatening to stop the daily White House coronavirus briefings — not because of public outcry over his comments about injecting disinfectants, or because his statements are being used against him in Joe Biden attack ads — but because reporters ask too many “hostile questions.” Trump took to Twitter Saturday evening to…
Testing for the coronavirus will dramatically expand across New York under an executive order Gov. Cuomo announced Saturday — a critical element in the move toward eventually reopening the state. The order allows independent pharmacies to offer walk-in diagnostic tests, and will initially be made available to first responders, medical workers and “essential employees” such…
For the first weeks of the pandemic in St Louis, Missouri, the only ones to die from the virus were black. By 8 April the coronavirus had killed 12 people. Each and every one was African American. In this midwestern city that six years ago became the focal point for a national debate on race…
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…