For months, clusters often centered in nursing homes, prisons and food processing plants. With Americans venturing into public more, new types of outbreaks are emerging.Pedestrians made their way past Flamingo Hotel and Casino along the Strip on Monday in Las Vegas. Credit...Bridget Bennett for The New York TimesJune 22, 2020, 7:49 p.m. ETPITTSBURGH — After months…
Posted: Mon 6:13 PM, Jun 22, 2020  |  Updated: Mon 6:24 PM, Jun 22, 2020 SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (Edited News Release) -- The Springfield-Greene County Health Department released more possible COVID-19 community exposure related to two patients. Prior to being diagnosed, a Greene County case visited the following locations: *Sunday, June 14: Walmart Neighborhood Market at…
Dr. Teresa Frankovich, Humboldt County’s public health officer, took numerous questions from local reporters on various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic today — reopening, masking, bad kinds of hand sanitizers and more — and the county has released her answers to those questions in the video above.Below: A rough summary of questions asked and answers…
A surge in COVID-19 cases following the mass protests and riots over the May 25 police killing of George Floyd has not yet materialized, despite aggressive testing over the past two weeks of people involved in the demonstrations that roiled the Twin Cities. The Minnesota Department of Health on Monday reported four more deaths and…
Roy St. Warren of Red Rainbow PDX holds a sign asking for "free masks for all," on May 1, 2020, during a May Day car caravan in Portland. The caravan was organized by the Portland May Day Coalition and demanded -- among other things -- PPE and hazard pay for essential workers and a moratorium…
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…