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By KTUU Digital Staff |  Updated: Wed 4:12 PM, Apr 29, 2020 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - There are four new cases of COVID-19, the Department of Health and Social Services said Wednesday, bringing the state count up to 355. The four new cases are split between Eagle River and Anchorage, and there are 12 new recovered…
Dr. Justin Jacob, right, and Medical Technologist Sosina Merid, left, with the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences speak Tuesday inside in a mobile testing lab unit that will begin accepting testing in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP Dr. Justin Jacob, right, and Medical Technologist Sosina Merid, left,…
CLAIM “ZERO flu deaths and ZERO pneumonia deaths for the first time in history” DETAILSFactually inaccurate: The claim states that there have been zero cases of flu in 2020, directly contradicting data generated by hospitals and clinical laboratories, which are collected and reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. KEY TAKE AWAY…
As a handful of states begin to ease stay-at-home restrictions, no state that has opted to reopen has come close to the federally recommended 14 consecutive days of declining cases.Even as the U.S. hit the grim milestone of more than 1 million cases Tuesday — one-third of the world's total — Georgia, Minnesota and other…
A "prone team," wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), turns a COVID-19 patient onto his stomach in a Stamford Hospital intensive care unit (ICU), on April 24, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut.John Moore | Getty ImagesThe coronavirus has now infected more than 1 million people in the United States as the nation grapples with roughly a third…
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…