The historic effort to get a vaccine for COVID-19 is coming to Oklahoma City.The Lynn Health Science Institute in Oklahoma City is looking for hundreds of people in the area to participate in a study of a possible vaccine. The company Moderna chose the institute to be the only place in Oklahoma to do this.“I…
More than 94,000 people have recovered from COVID-19 in Massachusetts Confirmed death toll surpasses 8,000 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported Wednesday that an additional 1,190 people in the state have recovered from COVID-19.As of July 8, weekly data shows that 94,347 patients have been released from isolation, meaning they are considered to have…
(File) HOUSTON – This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.When Karen Salazar stopped by to check on her mother on the evening of June 22, she found her in worse shape…
(CNN)A White man and a White woman who allegedly painted over a California community's Black Lives Matter mural this weekend are each facing a hate crime charge, the Contra Costa County District Atto…
Weeks and months after having a confirmed or suspected Covid-19 infection, many people are finding they still haven’t fully recovered. Emerging reports describe lingering symptoms ranging from fatigue and brain-fog to breathlessness and tingling toes. So why does Covid-19 cause lasting health problems? Ian Sample discusses some of the possible explanations with Prof Danny Altmann,…
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…