CLOSE Social distancing matters. Here is how to do it and how it can help curb the COVID-19 pandemic. USA TODAYHealth officials in one New York County issued subpoenas to eight people after they refused to cooperate in the contact tracing of the coronavirus cluster tied to a party.It worked: All eight partygoers responded to the subpoenas,…
FILE PHOTO: A logo for Pfizer is displayed on a monitor on the floor at the NYSE in New YorkBy Carl O'Donnell and Sujata Rao(Reuters) - Wall Street is moving some bets on COVID-19 vaccines to large pharmaceutical companies with robust manufacturing capabilities, signaling that a love affair with small biotech firms might be ending…
The current dominant strain of COVID-19 is three to six times as infectious as the original variation, a new study has suggested. The new strain is, however, not more severe. The variation of COVID-19 currently dominating global cases is more infectious than the original strain that emerged in China, according to a new study published…
The bar is asking anyone who went to the business in the last week to get tested, and to wear masks and "please stop bar hopping." SPOKANE, Wash. — Garageland, a bar in downtown Spokane, announced on Facebook Thursday that it was closing its doors in order to have employees tested amid a spike in…
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…