April 23, 2020 | 2:46pm | Updated April 23, 2020 | 3:06pm Enlarge Image A doctor measures the blood pressure of a COVID-19 infected patient. Sebastien Bozon/Getty Images Scientists are urgently investigating whether life-saving blood-pressure drugs may be a crucial factor behind many of those who die from the coronavirus. A disproportionate number of patients…
Published 8 hours agoon April 23, 2020 DETROIT — The man who raised Keith Gambrell, who loved him like a son and married his mother, died in a blue recliner of novel coronavirus in his Grosse Pointe Woods home.Gary Fowler, 56, went to the emergency rooms of three metro Detroit hospitals in the weeks leading…
here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber. While it’s definitely not a 6-feet-away type of activity, researchers at the University of Utah have found that it’s unlikely you can transmit the coronavirus through sex. Now all you have to do is figure out how to set the stage for…
Boston Dynamics says it still needs to figure out how to remotely collect vital sign information, like body temperature, respiratory rate, pulse rate and oxygen saturation. It’s considering the use of thermal camera technology, and it is testing ways to measure changes in blood vessel contraction via RGB cameras. In the near future, Boston Dynamics…
A new case report has pieced together how air conditioning in a restaurant may have helped to infect at least nine people with Covid-19. While there are important limitations and drawbacks to the non-peer reviewed research, it’s one of the first case reports to suggest air conditioning could play a role in the transmission of Covid-19 At lunchtime on January…
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…