Published on Apr 22, 2020With the coronavirus pandemic rattling economies around Europe, the question of how the bloc will respond hangs in the air. So-called coronabonds - a form of shared debt among EU nations - have been mooted as a solution. But that’s exposed a rift between countries like Italy and Spain calling for…
Contact tracing can help public health officials slow the spread of coronavirus. Angela Lang/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. In the fight against the spread of COVID-19, Apple and Google are teaming up to help public health organizations more easily track the spread of coronavirus…
CHICAGO (WLS) -- New COVID-19 antibody testing is available to the public at a Chicago facility starting Wednesday morning.The results, if accurate, could play an important role in resuming normal life. The first appointment for antibody testing was set for 9 a.m.The group providing the test says it's available to anyone that is feeling well…
SAN FRANCISCO — Officials in Santa Clara County, Calif., announced late Tuesday that two residents there died of the coronavirus in early and mid-February, making them the earliest known victims of the pandemic in the United States.The new information may shift the timeline of the virus’s spread through the country weeks earlier than previously believed.The…
WUHAN, China (Reuters) - Dressed in a hazmat suit, two masks and a face shield, Du Mingjun knocked on the mahogany door of a flat in a suburban district of Wuhan on a recent morning. FILE PHOTO: Medical personnel in protective suits wave hands to a patient who is discharged from the Leishenshan Hospital after…
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…