Thursday coronavirus case update for South Carolina DHEC released Total number of people confirmed cases to 28,962 The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 1,106 new confirmed cases and 3 new probable cases of COVID-19, and 8 additional confirmed deaths and 2 probable deaths. There are currently 881 hospital beds occupied…
(CNN)The coronavirus pandemic has moved into younger populations across much of the US, a change that could mean less serious illness and lower rates of death, the US Centers for Disease Control and …
Nearly 25 million Americans may have contracted the coronavirus, a figure 10 times higher than the number of confirmed cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday.In a briefing with reporters Thursday, CDC Director Robert Redfield said surveys of blood samples taken from around the country suggest that millions of Americans may have…
The novel coronavirus sickened at least 60 University of Texas students who took a spring break trip to Mexico in March, ignoring officials’ advice to stay home and social distance, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).After three students tested positive for the novel coronavirus following the trip,…
Experts forecast that there will be nearly 180,000 US deaths due to the coronavirus by Oct. 1 — but as many as 33,000 lives could be saved if at least 95 percent of people wear face masks, according to a new report. The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation released a model…
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…