(Reuters) - British ministers are making plans to distribute millions of free coronavirus antibody tests after a version backed by the UK government passed its first major trials, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Friday. The fingerprick tests, which can tell within 20 minutes if a person has ever been exposed to the coronavirus, were…
EastIdahoNews.com file photo IDAHO FALLS — Another eastern Idahoan has died as a result of a COVID-19 infection. On Friday, the Southeast Idaho Public Health District reported eastern Idaho’s fourth COVID-19 death — a Bingham County man in his 90s. Health officials say he had been hospitalized due to complications from the virus before finally…
Pastor of Northern Kentucky church tests positive for COVID-19, suspends live services for 2 weeks A pastor of a church in Northern Kentucky has tested positive for COVID-19 and has decided to cancel all in-person services for the next two weeks.Senior pastor Bo Weaver of The Bridge Church in Alexandria, Kentucky, posted on Facebook Friday…
Three more tri-county residents have lost their battle against COVID-19 as the deadly virus continues to sweep through area long-term care facilities. Two of the latest victims are from Lake County and the other one lived in Marion County. They were identified Friday as: 58-year-old Lake County man who tested positive June 19, hadn’t traveled…
36 ICU beds available in the "stressed" Baton Rouge health region Administrators say Baton Rouge hospitals running out of ICU nurses By Matt Houston | July 17, 2020 at 6:03 PM CDT - Updated July 17 at 9:50 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Officials at two Baton Rouge hospitals say a recent spike in…
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…