IT’S FRIDAY, APRIL 24. I’M TY STEELE. DEIRDE: AND I’M DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK. HERE’S A LOOK AT OUR BIG STORIES TODAY. THE LATEST NOW ON THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 IN CALIFORNIA. THERE ARE NEARLY 40,000 CONFIRMED CASES OF CORONAVIRUS IN THE STATE. MORE THAN 1500 CALIFORNIANS HAVE DIED YESTERDAY, CALIFORNIA RECORDED ITS DEADLIEST DAY SINCE THE…
Members of City Impact, a faith-based organization from Cedar Springs, sing and pray for residents and staff at Metron of Cedar Springs nursing home on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. (Cory Morse | MLive.com) Cory Morse | MLive.comMichigan health officials are adding coronavirus data specific to individual nursing homes in the state’s regular release of case…
A tip led police to more than a dozen bodies at the the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center in Andover, N.J. The state is among those that grant temporary immunity from civil suits to nursing homes. Ted Shaffrey/AP hide caption toggle caption Ted Shaffrey/AP A tip led police to more than a dozen bodies at…
"Right here, we are doing it alone," Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Donny Tuchman shouted Monday to cheering neighbors outside the nursing home in Brooklyn, New York. "These people right here," he said, pointing to the line of the health care staff members in full protective gear who'd walked out of the facility to accept…
Oregon’s senior care industry is well-known in state politics for its deep pockets and willingness to financially back candidates at every level of government.As the extent of COVID-19 cases and deaths at nursing homes receives more attention, the industry’s political largesse is also attracting scrutiny. Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, on Tuesday disclosed a March…
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…