Nearly 300 Illinois nursing home patients and staff have died from COVID-19, but exactly where still remains largely cloaked in secrecy. Unlike some states, Illinois hasn’t named specific facilities where the virus has been detected. That’s been true even in cases of significant clusters of deaths. While state officials signal that could be changing, for…
Share on PinterestCan SARS-CoV-2 affect pets, and if so, what can we do to ensure their well-being, as well as ours? We investigate.In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, much if not most of the research has focused on SARS-CoV-2’s impact on humans.But what about our most trustworthy companions — the pets that share our…
Mammoth Biosciences and researchers at the University of California, San Francisco are working on a coronavirus test that could run multiple samples at once, with results in 35-40 minutes. Even better, they say, it doesn't require the sophisticated, expensive equipment used in other tests for the virus. Mammoth Biosciences hide caption toggle caption Mammoth Biosciences…
Posted: Thu 6:39 PM, Apr 16, 2020 ODESSA, Tx. (KOSA) -- A second COVID-19 patient has died at Medical Center Hospital. According to MCH, the patient was a man in his 60s who died on Thursday evening. Five patients are still being treated at MCH. Three of those patients are in the Critical Care Unit,…
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…