June 24, 2020, 9:40PM Updated 6 hours ago The elderly man who died Sunday after contracting the new coronavirus was a resident at a Sonoma skilled nursing facility, one of the senior living sites where 40 infections have emerged since June 1, according to county health officials and state health department data. On Wednesday, county…
Doctors with CHI Health and Creighton School of Medicine, infectious disease and health lab met to discuss lessons learned from the coronavirus outbreak and what to expect in the fall.CHI Health said there are currently 61 COVID-19 patients in all 14 CHI Health hospitals, seven patients are currently on ventilators. As of June 1o, CHI…
New guidance from CDPHE allows visitors while minimizing the potential spread of COVID-19. DENVER — New guidance from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) will allow outdoor visitations to begin at residential care facilities once again. The state said it decided to implement this guidance now because of the low disease rates…
June 24, 2020 9:57 AM Matthew Clark Posted: June 24, 2020 9:57 AM Updated: June 24, 2020 10:29 AM MADISON, Wis. — Health officials in Dane County have reported the county’s highest number of COVID-19 cases ever. On Wednesday, Public Health Madison & Dane County announced 71 new cases of the virus. Since the beginning…
Ushma S. Neill PhD is vice president, scientific education & training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and editor at large of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Fol…
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…