Christopher Gavin, Boston.com Staff April 22, 2020 | 10:46 AM UMass Memorial Medical Center says its seeing encouraging results after performing its first plasma transfusion for a severely ill COVID-19 patient at the Worcester hospital. “After hours of transfusion, the patient has dramatically improved overall and is now starting to wean off of the ventilator…
7:27 p.m. — This star Denver bartender is a gig delivery driver now to support his laid-off employees Kevin J. Beaty/DenveriteAmerican Bonded set to open on Larimer Street, April 3, 2018. When the coronavirus shutdown order came, well-known Denver bar owner Sean Kenyon laid off 53 employees and locked the doors at Occidental, Williams &…
There are still so many mysteries surrounding the new coronavirus and now there's a new symptom that seems to be affecting younger patients, including children. Painful skin rashes are emerging as a possible COVID-19 symptom. Some appear before any other symptom. Others appear weeks after recovery, according to Grapevine dermatologist Dr. Sanober Amin. Local The…
April 21, 2020 | 9:00pm Doctors believe drugs used for death penalty executions could save the lives of coronavirus patients. A group of seven pharmacists, public health experts and intensive care unit doctors penned a letter to corrections departments this month asking states with the death penalty to send any stockpiles they might have of…
David Jackson, USA TODAY Published 7:36 p.m. ET April 22, 2020 | Updated 9:05 p.m. ET April 22, 2020CLOSE President Trump tells reporter to "keep your voice down," at a coronavirus task force briefing. WochitWASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said he disagrees with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's decision to move quickly to reopen parts of the…
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…