These days hearing someone cough or sneeze in public can cause instant anxiety if you’re nearby, especially in closed spaces.But how often do you think of the other major route for COVID-19 — the simple act of talking to another person? Droplets spewed during speech are believed to be the key transmission vector for COVID-19…
An analysis of COVID-19 testing in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area of the United States found that Latinx people were around three times as likely to test positive, compared with any other ethnic or racial group.Share on PinterestLatinx communities in the US may be hit harder by the pandemic, new research suggests. The researchers who carried…
Oakland County health officials say three people who were at a crowded sports bar in downtown Royal Oak two weekends ago have tested positive for the coronavirus. The three individuals did not not each other and the only commonality is they all were at the Fifth Avenue on the evening of Friday, June 19, the county health…
matterGrowing evidence shows most infected people aren’t spreading the virus. But whether you become a superspreader probably depends more on circumstance than biology.A makeshift emergency room in Brescia, Italy, in March. It was set up to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.Credit...Alessandro Grassani for The New York TimesJune 30, 2020, 12:01 a.m. ETAt a May 30…
(CNN)More than half a million people have died from the coronavirus worldwide, marking another bleak milestone in the pandemic. The latest death toll stands at more than 502,000, according to data f…
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…