Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, New Yorkers have had to become familiar with all sorts of concepts that were mostly only known to public health officials and epidemiologists. “Social distancing” and “community spread,” for example, are two terms that many were not familiar with before March.Even government officials have expressed weariness with all…
I have a full-time job and no plans to leave it, but when Johns Hopkins launched an online course for contact tracers last week, I itched to enroll. I'm a health reporter, which these days means lots of interviews with scientists and doctors about COVID-19 and the virus that causes it. I'm well-informed and curious,…
Published: May 19, 2020 at 12:14 p.m. ET It is expected to be introduced across the U.K. in mid to late May and countries around the world are testing similar options The app tracks a user’s proximity to others in order to alert them if they have been in touch with somebody who has the…
New York Daily News | May 17, 2020 | 7:11 PM Gregory McMichael, left, and his son Travis McMichael. The two have been charged with murder in the February shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, whom they had pursued in a truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood.(Glynn County Detention Center/Associated Press) A text message…
Hunting down people exposed to the coronavirus and quarantining them is seen as a vital step in controlling its spread, and now Johns Hopkins University has created a free online course to turn people of all backgrounds into a nationwide force of hunters. The course for so-called contact tracers was specifically created for the state…
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…