EastIdahoNews.com file photo IDAHO FALLS — Another eastern Idahoan has died as a result of a COVID-19 infection. On Friday, the Southeast Idaho Public Health District reported eastern Idaho’s fourth COVID-19 death — a Bingham County man in his 90s. Health officials say he had been hospitalized due to complications from the virus before finally…
As the Covid-19 crisis escalates in the U.S., the scramble for an effective vaccine is about to collide with the electoral calendar. Pfizer (ticker: PFE) says it will seek Food and Drug Administration authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine as early as October. The federal government’s Covid-19 vaccine program, meanwhile, says it wants AstraZeneca’s (AZN) vaccine…
(CNN)Each day new information comes out about the deadly novel coronavirus and Covid-19, the disease it causes, making it difficult to keep up with all that science has learned. Here's a wrap-up of…
'It can be complicated' explains Washtenaw County contact tracerContact tracing is considered a critical tool in the fight to contain coronavirus, but what is it like to do the work?While medical staff are working to save lives from COVID-19, it’s the contact tracers who can actually stop the spread.READ: ‘Answer the phone’: Michigan health officials…
Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY Published 7:21 a.m. ET July 17, 2020 | Updated 10:20 a.m. ET July 17, 2020CLOSE The news cycle is jampacked with polls. But have you ever wondered how polls actually work and what they mean? USA TODAYWASHINGTON – Three months of crises – from the volatile economy to racial reckoning that’s grown…
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…