Anchorage Alejandra Legate of Capstone Family Clinic waits for travelers to swab. A mobile clinic from Capstone Family Medicine operates a COVID-19 testing facility near the baggage claim at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on June 11, 2020. (Marc Lester / ADN) We're making coronavirus coverage available without a subscription as a public service. But…
Never miss a morning briefing. Subscribe today to get our A.M. newsletter delivered to your inbox. As is the case in many other parts of the country, activists and protesters in L.A. are keeping the pressure on local leaders to call out and punish police brutality, even as new claims of excessive force crop up.…
A Southern California husband and wife died of coronavirus one day apart, leaving behind five children between the ages of 2 and 17, according to a report. Humberto Ruelas-Rivas, 60, died on Sunday and his 38-year-old wife, Karina Bonilla, died on Monday, KTLA-TV reported. A GoFundMe organized for the Ruelas-Rivas family has raised more than…
The World Health Organization on Tuesday attempted to clarify comments made just 24 hours earlier that transmission of the novel coronavirus in carriers who don’t show apparent symptoms happened in “very rare” cases. Maria Van Kerkhove said it was a “misunderstanding to state that asymptomatic transmission globally is very rare,” and that her comments during…
(Reuters) - Five years ago, in an office complex with a giant sculpture of a mosquito just northwest of Phnom Penh, Jessica Manning struck on a novel idea. Rather than spend more years in what felt like a futile search for a malaria vaccine, she would take on all mosquito-borne pathogens at once. A giant…
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…