As countries around the world grapple with the coronavirus pandemic, the richest ZIP code in the US — a private island off the coast of Miami — has snapped up 1,800 antibody tests for its residents and staff.Business Insider talked to Fisher Island staff and residents, parsed through reports from news outlets, and viewed letters…
New tests can identify people who have been infected and recovered from COVID-19 by searching for coronavirus antibodies in the blood. Researchers from Stanford University recently tested 3,300 Californians in Santa Clara county for antibodies. Their results suggest that the number of people who have been infected in the county is between 50 and 85 times higher…
Ten nurses were suspended from a California hospital after refusing to work with coronavirus patients unless they were given more protective equipment, including N95 face masks.The nurses at Providence St. John's Medical Center in Santa Monica started to make the demands after a colleague tested positive.They are barred from returning to work while the company…
The US is not close to achieving herd immunity for the coronavirus, experts say.To put the virus in decline, at least 50% of the population would have to be immune. Only an estimated 2-3% of Americans have recovered from COVID-19 so far.Battling the coronavirus will require on-and-off social distancing, widespread testing, case isolation, and contact…
But Congress is deadlocked over how to allocate more money for the popular loan program, with Democrats continuing to oppose the GOP's $250 billion infusion for the fund without equal aid for hospitals and local governments. The impasse is now in its second week. "It’s not that we don’t share the values of small businesses,…
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…