NEW AT NOON, THE POLK COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS RE-ENACTING VISITOR RESTRICTIONS AT HOSPITALS IN POLK AND DALLAS COUNTIES DUE TO A RISE I CORONAVIRUS CASES. STARTING TOMORROW, VISITORS WILL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED. HOWEVER THERE ARE A FEW EXCEPTIONS, ONE OR TWO CAREGIVERS WILL BE ALLOWED ONLY IN THE FOLLOWING SITUATIONS. A PATIENT IS…
1918 Flu Inspired Donoghue's 'Pull Of The Stars' — A Disquieting Pandemic Novel Readers are awaiting novels of the pandemic, and Emma Donoghue just may have stumbled into writing one of the first. As Donoghue explains in the author's note to her new novel, The Pull of the Stars, she began writing the story in…
Two Covid-19 vaccine candidates have proven safe for humans and produced strong immune reactions among patients involved in two separate clinical trials, doctors said on Monday. The first trial among more than a thousand adults in Britain found that the vaccine induced 'strong antibody and T cell immune responses' against the novel coronavirus. A separate…
Bibb Medical Center receptionist Shontel James wears a protective mask at her desk. There is also a bottle of hand sanitizer on the counter for visitors to use. (Joe Songer | [email protected]).Joe Songer | [email protected] added 1,846 new coronavirus cases since yesterday as hospitalization due to the virus reached another high.The Alabama Department of Public…
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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…