A woman is tested for COVID-19 at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City earlier this month. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images A woman is tested for COVID-19 at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City earlier this month. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images…
Colorado health officials on Saturday reported no additional deaths tied directly to COVID-19, while 1,443 people who had contracted the virus have now died since March. That’s an increase of seven deaths of people who had the virus but no additional fatalities tied directly to COVID-19 over Friday’s tallies, though there’s a lag in reporting…
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Texas AUSTIN, Texas — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose by more than 1,200 in Texas to surpass 61,000 with 25 additional deaths, the Texas health department reported Saturday. The state’s rising caseload came as El Paso County surpassed San Antonio’s Bexas County in both cases and deaths, despite the fact that Bexar is…
Since the beginning of this year, Florida has experienced an uptick in the number of pneumonia and influenza deaths, according to data from the Centers for Disease and Control. Experts and Trump administration officials responsible for keeping tabs on mortality rates across the country believe that many of those individuals had likely contracted and died…
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…