Alabama, which has been hit hard by the recent surge of coronavirus cases, is running out of available intensive care unit beds.Hospitals in the more densely populated areas of Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Birmingham have begun to transfer critical care patients from hospital to hospital because of the shortage of beds, according to a Federal Emergency Management…
The Associated Press Updated 7:20 am CDT, Friday, June 26, 2020 Respiratory therapist Lisa Nguyen, left, nurse Simon Denton, center, and nurse Raymond Garcia, move a COVID-19 patient to an air mattress to prevent the formation of pressure ulcers. Respiratory therapist Lisa Nguyen, left, nurse Simon Denton, center, and nurse Raymond Garcia, move a COVID-19 patient…
Rates of coronavirus infection among Latinos have risen rapidly across the United States.“We’re the ones who are out in the work force,” said Cynthia Orozco, a 20-year-old high school tutor and civil engineering major at California State University, Fresno, who contracted the virus along with her mother, Graciela Ramirez, a machine operator at Ruiz Foods in…
(CNN)Even after widespread lockdowns, the United States has failed to stomp out the coronavirus and again finds itself in a rapid surge of cases. Public health experts place particular blame on a lac…
BOSTON—The patient in Room 5 had one big thing going for her. She was young. Adriana Rice-Leiva, 31 years old and 7½ months pregnant, also had been in good health. Even in a hospital bed, hooked to machines and deathly ill with Covid-19, her dark hair shined and her skin glowed. Ms. Rice-Leiva was breathing…
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…