Monthly Archives: July, 2020

AN 8 DAY FORECAST THAT BRINGS IN SOME BIG HEAT AS WE HEAD TOWARD THE WEEKEND. STACEY: NEW AT 6:00, GOVERNOR REYNOLDS SAYS SHE IS CONSIDERING RE-INSTATING SOME COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS, IN RESPONSE TO A RISE IN CASES. KCCI’S CHRIS GOTHNER EXPLAINS WHAT COULD BE IN STORE FOR IOWA BARS. CHRIS: SPEAKING HERE IN WEBSTER CITY,…

This Pennsylvania squirrel probably does not have the plague. Caleb Martin/Unsplash On Monday, public health officials in Morrison, Colorado, announced that a squirrel had tested positive for the bubonic plague, aka the Black Death. In a world attuned to the danger of animal reservoirs for human disease (COVID-19 appears to have jumped species from bats;…

matterNew studies show that people with Type A blood are not at greater risk of getting sick, as previous studies had suggested.Credit...Chamila Karunarathne/EPA, via ShutterstockJuly 15, 2020, 10:19 a.m. ETEarly in the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers found preliminary evidence suggesting that people’s blood type might be an important risk factor — both for being infected by…

SummaryThe number of children worldwide getting life-saving vaccinations has declined amid the pandemic, the UN and WHO sayThe drop in routine immunisations could cause more harm than Covid-19 itself, the World Health Organization head warnsUS pharmaceutical company Moderna says it is entering final testing phase for its coronavirus vaccinePhase one testing has proved safe and…

An Israeli doctor says he has figured out how to “reverse” aging in the brain and has tried it successfully on volunteers. The answer, he says, has been right in front of our noses this whole time  — oxygen. Shai Efrati claims he has found that when healthy adults aged 65-plus were given a special…