Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she couldn't keep raising property taxes "off the table" as the city faces a budget shortfall and Chicago businesses struggle to recover from both looting and the coronavirus shutdown."I can't take it off the table, but it is truly the last thing I want to do," Lightfoot said at a…
'This is not fiction': Greenville health professionals plea for folks to social distance Greenville Mayor Knox White and local health officials say they are very concerned about the spike in coronavirus cases, especially in our area.White held a briefing Thursday with DHEC, Prisma, Bon Secours and Greenville County Emergency Management to offer a public plea…
The Margin Published: June 11, 2020 at 3:16 p.m. ET A report about growing outbreaks of EEE virus, or Eastern equine encephalitis, has gone viral Mosquito bites spread various diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of people a year. nechaev-kon/iStock Turns out, murder hornets aren’t the killer insects to worry about this summer. Mosquitoes are…
Mayo Clinic and corporate partners on Thursday unveiled a new test that will help answer the critical question of whether people develop immunity to the coronavirus that causes this infectious disease. The test is first in the world that will be broadly commercially available to identify neutralizing antibodies — the proteins produced after COVID-19 that…
Minnesota health officials announced 453 new COVID-19 confirmed cases and 13 deaths on Thursday. The pandemic has sickened 29,316 state residents and caused 1,249 fatalities due to complications from the new coronavirus. Most of the deaths have been among residents of long-term care facilities. Ten of the deaths announced Thursday were nursing home or assisted-living…