By Lora Lavigne, WRAL multimedia journalistRaleigh, N.C. — The Wake County Health Department has launched a new mobile COVID-19 testing site. The portable testing site at the Wake County Commons building will help health care workers track the spread of the virus in the county and make sure more testing is available for at-risk groups.…
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“Contact tracing” has become the term du jour in the coronavirus era, as it’s largely seen as one of our best, time-tested tools to contain the spread of the virus and safely reopen the country. But it’s also controversial, especially with the rollout of digital contact tracing tools, some of which were created by data-greedy…
Thanks, 2020 — The outbreak has come at a "challenging time" health officials say. Beth Mole - Jun 1, 2020 10:49 pm UTC Enlarge / Health workers operate within an Ebola safety zone in the Health Center in Iyonda, near Mbandaka, on June 1, 2018. A new outbreak of Ebola has ignited in the Democratic…
(CNN)Stay 6 feet apart and, while you're at it, wear a face covering. The "most comprehensive study to date" found that physical distance and perhaps the use of a mask were the two best ways to pre…
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…