At this moment, more than 104,000 Americans have died of the coronavirus and more than 1.8 million have been infected. It can be hard to wrap your head around the devastation the coronavirus has wreaked on families across the US, especially as some states try to gradually reopen and return to whatever normal looks like…
The Trump administration official leading the COVID-19 testing efforts will return to his regular duties in mid-June, he announced Monday.Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary for health, said at a public meeting Monday he will return to his regular duties next month after spending the past several weeks working with FEMA to increase COVID-19 testing…
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What to KnowThe mosquitoes were collected from a trap in Hacienda Heights.As temperatures increase, so do mosquito populations and disease risk, which poses a serious public health threat in our communities, vector control said.Severe symptoms include high fever, muscle weakness, neck stiffness, coma, paralysis, and possibly death. Los Angeles County's first West Nile virus positive mosquito sample…
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…