The squirrel tested positive Saturday for bubonic plague in what Jeffco Public Health said was the county's first case. JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — A squirrel found in the Town of Morrison tested positive for the bubonic plague on Saturday, according to Jefferson County Public Health. The case is the county's first, according to a Jeffco…
Brian Hedrick, left, and Nicole Brock-Martinez, both RNs, tests people for coronavirus at the drive thru testing site at Lebanon Samaritan Urgent Care Walk-In Clinic in Lebanon, Oregon. March 19, 2020. Beth Nakamura/Staff The Oregon Health Authority on Sunday reported 332 new confirmed or presumptive cases of the coronavirus and two more deaths.The day’s numbers continue a…
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois reached another one-day high in testing, as it surpassed 38,000 COVID-19 tests conducted in the last 24 hours.Illinois' confirmed coronavirus cases increased by 954 , including 20 deaths, on Sunday. There's now a total of 153,916 COVID-19 cases and 7,187 deaths statewide.Within the last 24 hours, Illinois performed 38,894 tests, bringing…
16 new cases reported in Deschutes County, 5 in Jefferson County PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 234, along with 332 more cases, 21 of them in Central Oregon, the Oregon Health Authority reported Sunday. OHA reported 332 new confirmed and presumptive cases…
U.S.|Man, 30, Dies After Attending a ‘Covid Party,’ Texas Hospital Says“I thought this was a hoax,” the man told his nurse, a hospital official said.The patient who died had attended a gathering with an infected person to test whether the coronavirus was real, the chief medical officer at Methodist Hospital said.Credit...Christopher Lee for The New…
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…