Twenty-three more people have died from COVID-19 in Minnesota, state health officials reported Saturday, as the number of confirmed cases continued to mount with expanded coronavirus testing across the state. The statewide toll is now 244 deaths, according to data posted Saturday morning by the Minnesota Department of Health. All but one of the new…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says calls to poison control centers across the country received more than 45,000 calls tied to cleaners and disinfectants in the first three months of the year. That is a 20% jump. Kentucky is seeing a similar trend. In March, the Kentucky…
(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) PHOENIX — With 235 new positive tests for coronavirus reported by the state health department Saturday morning, Arizona has surpassed the 6,200-case mark. The state now has 6,280 cases with seven new deaths, bringing the death toll to 273. There have been 62,508 tests given in Arizona, an increase of 1,795 since Friday.…
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The Mission District mass-testing effort that will run from today to Tuesday is ambitious in its scope. It aims to test some 2,000 to 6,000 individuals in a city that, to date, has only tested fewer than 13,000. You can register here. Volunteers report back to us that some eligible Mission residents are reticent to…
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…