A 6-year-old girl from Hillsborough County became the youngest person to die from coronavirus complications in Florida, health officials said. The girl is among the 119 deaths reported by the state …
CLOSE Communities of color are dying at higher rates from the novel coronavirus than white Americans. Here's how structural inequities play a role. USA TODAYRaquetta Dotley looks out of her South Chattanooga apartment and sighs as she thinks about her small neighborhood park shoehorned in next to a cellulose plant and a biofuels factory that processes used grease and lard…
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Dr Tedros said globalisation had allowed the virus to spread more quickly The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be over in under two years.Speaking in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Spanish flu of 1918 had taken two years to overcome.But…
There's still much uncertainty, but what will life in Los Angeles County be like going forward with the coronavirus pandemic and what's being done now to minimize its impact? County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer joined Eyewitness News via Skype to answer questions from viewers.Ferrer talked about what the county still needs to work…
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…