Los Angeles County health officials on Thursday announced that COVID-19 — the illness caused by the coronavirus — has become the leading cause of death in the county, surpassing fatalities from flu, emphysema and heart disease. Barbara Ferrer, the county’s public health director, confirmed 68 new coronavirus-linked deaths, bringing the total to just under 800…
Posted: Thu 12:26 PM, Apr 23, 2020  |  Updated: Thu 3:49 PM, Apr 23, 2020 BROWN COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) - Brown County Public Heath says the number of COVID-19 cases attributed to an outbreak linked to workers at the JBS beef plant in Green Bay has increased to 189. That's an additional 42 cases from…
Sinovac Biotech has created a new COVID-19 vaccine by growing the novel coronavirus in the VERO monkey cell line and inactivating it with chemicals. Xinhua/Alamy Stock Photo By Jon CohenApr. 23, 2020 , 1:05 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. For the first time, one of the many COVID-19 vaccines in development…
Key Words Published: April 23, 2020 at 10:56 a.m. ET Bill Gates, a steady voice during the coronavirus pandemic. Getty Images “ ‘It is impossible to overstate the pain that people are feeling now and will continue to feel for years to come... No one who lives through Pandemic 1 will ever forget it.’ ”…
Scientists are continuing to research COVID-19 and some of the findings have upset what we thought we knew about coronavirus. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shares what doctors have discovered in New York state’s largest health system. “The analysis is the largest and most comprehensive look at outcomes in the…
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…