MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota added another 922 cases of COVID-19 to its tally of infections Monday and four more deaths, including that of a 9-month-old child who health officials say had no underlying health conditions. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) says that a fatality was reported in Clay County of a child between the…
A Texas county that has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic issued a new stay-at-home order on Monday.Hidalgo County’s emergency health director ordered residents to shelter-in-place and follow a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew. The order officially goes into effect Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. and is scheduled to last until Aug. 5 at…
LATEST July 20, 5:45 p.m. In a Monday evening letter to the community, San Mateo County health officer Dr. Scott Morrow called for "less reliance on business sector closures" and more individual prudence as it relates to mask wearing, social distancing and not mixing with non-household individuals."A majority of people we are seeing infected now are…
Calaveras Public Health Calaveras County, CA — The public health department in Calaveras County reports that a man has died from complications related to coronavirus. The department notes that limited information can be released due to HIPAA privacy laws, but he was over 65 years old, unable to recover after contracting the virus, and passed…
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…