A new report says that perhaps 4% of Los Angeles County residents have been infected with the coronavirus at some point. The research offers both hopeful and sobering news for the county, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus.It suggests social distancing has slowed the outbreak and that COVID-19 might be less fatal than…
By WBTV Web Staff | April 17, 2020 at 4:16 PM EDT - Updated April 20 at 3:41 PM MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - Mecklenburg County health officials announced two new COVID-19 related deaths Monday, bringing the county’s total to 31. To date, 1,213 county residents have tested positive for the virus. Mecklenburg County Public…
QUINCY (WGEM) — Blessing Hospital officials said Sunday that a Lewis County, Missouri, resident died of medical conditions complicated by COVID-19. Officials said the patient was their 80’s to 90’s. “The Blessing Health System team is saddened by the loss of a Tri-State resident to COVID-19. We express our deepest and sincerest sympathy to the…
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…