A spike in coronavirus infections in Hawaii is continuing with 27 new confirmed cases today — the highest daily case count since April 4. The Health Department’s daily new case count has not been this high since April 4, when officials reported 32 cases. The new cases reported daily has never been over 34 in…
WE'LL MAP OUT YOUR HOLIDAY WEEKEND FORECAST IN A FEW MINUTES. GABY: WE ARE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS OUT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. OFFICIALS HAVE ANNOUNCED 18 MORE DEATHS ASSOCIATED WITH COVID-19 IN THE STATE, INCLUDING FIVE DEATHS IN THE UPSTATE. WE'RE TOLD ONE OF THOSE DEATHS WAS A YOUNG ADULT FROM SPARTANBURG COUNTY AND THAT BRINGS…
Ben Neuman, a professor at Texas A&M-Texarkana, is one of the world’s top authorities on coronaviruses. He’s said to have grown more SARS-type viruses in the lab than anyone else alive, and he was on the panel that gave the coronavirus now upending our world its official scientific name: SARS-CoV-2. Neuman is also one of…
THE STATE HAS HAD A SUSTAINED DECLINE OF CORONAVIRUS CASES OVER THE PAST TWO WEEKS. HE SAYS THE STATE HAS BEEN USING DATA TO BALANCE THE ECONOMIC INTEREST VERSUS PUBLIC HEALTH. >> WE’VE TRIED TO BALANCE THESE THINGS WITH MEASURED SCIENCE BASED ACTIONS, INCLUDING WHEN IT COMES TO REOPENING EVERY WEEK, WE’VE USED DATA TO…
On a June 10 call, Oklahoma health officials told the state's nursing homes that they would take a slow, measured approach toward allowing visitors to return to the facilities whose elderly, vulnerable residents account for more than half of Oklahoma's coronavirus deaths.Two days later, some leaders of long-term care facilities say they were startled to…
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…