A top pandemic doctor warned President Trump’s supporters to think twice about attending his reelection campaign rally in Oklahoma next weekend as allies struggled to stay on the right page about whether to wear face masks to limit the spread of coronavirus. Dr. Michael T. Osterholm told “Fox News Sunday” that he would personally not…
WheelsTruck stops instead of motels, hand sanitizer instead of candy and 16 tanks of fuel to buy an oddball van and drive it home.Parking for the night at a Love’s Travel Stop in Brigham City, Utah.Credit...Mercedes LilienthalJune 14, 2020Updated 10:18 a.m. ETWhat happens when a dream car is for sale in Florida, you live in…
Grocery stores, banks, dentists, universities and big box stores like Walmart should reopen earlier and face fewer restrictions as communities open up after pandemic lockdowns, researchers said Wedne…
Two new papers published in the journal Nature say that lockdowns put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus were highly effective, prevented tens of millions of infections and saved millions of lives. "Our estimates show that lockdowns had a really dramatic effect in reducing transmission," says Samir Bhatt, a senior lecturer at…
Businesses are slowly reopening. "Six feet apart" seems to be shrinking in distance. Face coverings are optional in most places.Some may believe the COVID-19 pandemic is ending in the United States, but in truth, "we are still in a pandemic," according to Dr. Jay Butler, head of the COVID-19 response at the Centers for Disease…
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…