By Nick Brown, Deena Beasley, Gabriela Mello and Alexander Cornwell(Reuters) - Dr. Gopi Patel recalls how powerless she felt when New York's Mount Sinai Hospital overflowed with COVID-19 patients in March.Guidance on how to treat the disease was scant, and medical studies were being performed so hastily they couldn’t always be trusted."You felt very helpless,”…
COVID-19 cases are spiking across Southern and Western states just as rising summer temperatures are drawing people indoors to seek relief in the air conditioning. But can air conditioning facilitate the spread of the coronavirus?The question comes as states are allowing indoor businesses to reopen, as well as allow increasingly large gatherings of people.Full coverage…
N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY Published 5:00 a.m. ET June 26, 2020 | Updated 9:32 a.m. ET June 26, 2020CLOSE CDC says coronavirus 'does not spread easily' by touching surfaces or objects. But it still 'may be possible.' USA TODAYNew research from Battelle has found that the virus that causes COVID-19 is undetectable on books and other common materials…
Researcher Anna Honko conducts tests on the nanosponges. (Courtesy: the Griffiths lab at Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories) The research community around the world has never been more engaged in developing treatments for a new disease than it has for COVID-19. The Liangfang Zhang research group at the University of California San Diego,…
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists are only starting to grasp the vast array of health problems caused by the novel coronavirus, some of which may have lingering effects on patients and health systems for years to come, according to doctors and infectious disease experts. FILE PHOTO: A health worker takes care of a patient infected with…
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…