(Reuters) - U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 60,000 on Wednesday and the outbreak will soon be deadlier than any flu season since 1967, according to a Reuters tally. FILE PHOTO: Soldiers are quarantined while recovering from the Spanish flu at Camp Funston, Kansas, U.S. in 1918. U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS. America's worst flu…
Our ability to test for coronavirus antibodies is growing, but what we can do with that information is still limited.A health care worker taking a blood sample for an antibody test in Bolinas, Calif.Credit...John G Mabanglo/EPA, via ShutterstockApril 29, 2020, 4:51 p.m. ETAs states across the country weigh options for reopening after weeks of stay-at-home…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.New York City has been the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the daily accounting of hundreds of fatalities has reinforced the idea it's an urban contagion, but its spillover area has faced deep impact.Many of the city’s suburbs have been hit just as hard. In some,…
As Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) moves to reopen more businesses, a new study underscores the disproportionate toll the virus has taken on the state’s African American population.Surveying eight Georgia hospitals, researchers found that in a sample of 305 covid-19 patients, 247 were black — more than 80 percent and more than they expected.“It is…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says I am to wear a mask to prevent others from getting COVID-19, not to stop myself from becoming infected. Also, you are to wear a mask for my safety, so I do not become infected. Question: Whom is the mask supposed to be protecting? Let me put…
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…