“We need to assume that COVID-19 is everywhere right now,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti at his Wednesday Coronavirus briefing. He reported 3,266 new coronavirus cases in the region for a total of 164,870 cases. That means the 7-day average of daily new infections has more than doubled in the past month. One reason…
“The human toll of COVID is really the untold story,” said Parkland Hospital's chief medical officer Dr. Joseph Chang. DALLAS — Dr. Joseph Chang can rattle off numbers and statistics without looking at any notes. As of July 21, Parkland Hospital, where Chang is chief medical officer, was treating about 170 COVID-19 patients. That’s down…
Those who enter Crossfit HTF are subject to a full safety screening process. (Source: Hawaii News Now) By HNN Staff | July 22, 2020 at 1:55 PM HST - Updated July 22 at 1:56 PM HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Gov. David Ige has approved a request to mandate the wearing of face coverings while inside…
As restaurants and bars find ways to navigate business during the coronavirus pandemic, Allegheny County announced it’s plans to launch a 10-member COVID-19 field response team to enforce mitigation orders.At The Vault Taproom on Pittsburgh’s South Side along East Carson Street, there are signs to remind customers to wear a mask and social distance. Assistant…
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The first confirmed coronavirus outbreak at an Iowa meatpacking plant was far more severe than previously known, with more than twice as many workers becoming infected than the state Department of Public Health told the public, newly released records show. The department announced at a May 5 news conference that 221…
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…