The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of 10:00 a.m., on July 20, 2020, there have been 233,490 total confirmatory laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 5,080 total cases and 100 deaths. In alignment with updated definitions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the dashboard includes probable cases…
A newly published study from researchers at Mount Sinai hospital system in New York shows the "vast majority" of patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 symptoms have antibodies for at least three months.The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, was based on nearly 20,000 individuals with the virus."...We report that the vast majority of infected individuals…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Munich and Ulm have determined how the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 inhibits the synthesis of proteins in infected cells and shown that it effectively disarms the body's innate immune system. Although its name is relatively unspecific and indeed opaque, the Nonstructural Protein 1 (Nsp1) encoded by the coronavirus SARS-Cov-2, which…
(Bundit Binsuk/EyeEm/Getty Images) FRANCES WILLIAMS, THE CONVERSATION 19 JULY 2020 People who have been seriously unwell and treated on intensive care units can expect to take some months to recover fully, regardless of their ailment.However, with COVID-19, evidence is mounting that some people who have had relatively mild symptoms at home may also have a…
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…