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Dr. Keesha Williams-Elliott had to cut her practice at her comprehensive eye care center in the District by 90% as part of a citywide shutdown on elective medical procedures during the coronavirus crisis. Now on the verge of a reopening, the ophthalmologist worries about being able to resume business as usual. “Until we get back…
Uncle Sam found it was actually pretty easy to get people to stop working for coronavirus — all it took was a generous $600-a-week boost in unemployment. Getting them back on the job now is proving to be far tougher, at least as long as those payments are still rolling in. From a bar in…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Pandemics are hardly new — the Spanish Flu and similar pathogens in 1957, 1968 and 2009 ripped through America with great ferocity. What makes COVID-19 different for our political future is that we have chosen to almost completely shut down the economy to minimize causalities. President Trump has been vilified for initially dismissing the…
A pedestrian walks past closed-down shops on an empty Regent Street in London on April 2, 2020, as life in Britain continues during the nationwide lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic.Tolga AkmenFifty days of strict lockdowns followed by 30 days where measures are eased could be an effective strategy for reducing Covid-19 deaths while ensuring…
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Most elderly covid-19 patients put on ventilators at two New York hospitals did not survive, according to a sweeping study published Tuesday that captured the brutal nature of this new disease and the many ways it attacks the body.The study, published in the Lancet, is broadly consistent with clinical findings from China and Europe, and…
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…