LYON, France — A 9-year-old who contracted COVID-19 in eastern France did not pass the virus on to any other pupils at three ski-schools, according to new research that suggests infants are not large spreaders of the disease. The child was infected in France’s Haute-Savoie region in one of the first coronavirus clusters in the…
(Reuters) - Reported cases of the coronavirus have crossed 2.33 million globally and 159,818 people have died, according to a Reuters tally as of 2000 GMT on Sunday.DEATHS AND INFECTIONS* For an interactive graphic tracking the global spread, open https://tmsnrt.rs/3aIRuz7in an external browser.* For a U.S.-focused tracker with state-by-state and county map, open https://tmsnrt.rs/2w7hX9Tin an…
If the new coronavirus has ever made you its host, you are almost certainly guilty of some silent spreading.Scientists in China have shed new light on how readily the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads unseen from person to person — a form of “cryptic” transmission that can transform a manageable outbreak into an out-of-control epidemic. People infected…
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…