CLOSE Pressure to create a coronavirus vaccine is increasing by the day, but for a safe vaccine to enter the market, it takes time. USA TODAYBroadway stages will remain dark through 2020 amid a national boom in coronavirus cases, but the nation's leading infectious diseases expert remains "cautiously optimistic" that a vaccine could be widely available…
Health-care workers from University of South Florida Health administer coronavirus testing June 25 at a community center in Tampa. (Octavio Jones/Getty Images) When the first coronavirus cases in Chicago appeared in January, they bore the same genetic signatures as a germ that emerged in China weeks before. But as Egon Ozer, an infectious-disease specialist at…
The worldwide toll is continuing to rise, with more than 10 million confirmed cases. More than a quarter of deaths have been in the United States.Right NowChina approved a vaccine candidate for use by the country’s military.ImageBefore the burial of a coronavirus victim in Mumbai, India, last week.Credit...Francis Mascarenhas/ReutersHalf a million people are dead as…
Global coronavirus cases now exceed 10 million and more than half a million people have died from the respiratory disease, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States accounts for about a quarter of all deaths. Pakistan's COVID-19 cases have passed the 200,000 mark after 3,602 new infections were reported on Sunday. The US health…
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…