Dr. Kong Yuefeng, a recovered COVID-19 patient who has passed his 14-day quarantine, donates plasma in the city's blood center in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020.Barcroft Media | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration just green-lit a clinical trial at Columbia University to determine whether the plasma collected from…
Doug Schneider, Green Bay Press-Gazette Published 12:36 p.m. CT April 23, 2020 | Updated 5:24 p.m. CT April 23, 2020CLOSEGREEN BAY - Brown County now has over 500 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, continuing the rapid spread that began to show up in numbers last week.It trails only Milwaukee County in the number of cases statewide. Over…
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Doctors have observed a strange trend in more COVID-19 patients: people with blood oxygen saturation levels that are very low but who aren't gasping for breath.Although often quite ill, these patients are not presenting symptoms like most acute respiratory distress syndromes, which is a lung failure previously associated with the SARS outbreak in 2003 and other respiratory…
President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks about the coronavirus (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) "I'm accurately quoted in the Washington Post" Alex Henderson April 23, 2020 8:20PM (UTC) This article originally appeared on AlterNet. At his nightly White House press conference on Wednesday, April 22, President…
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…