One of the world’s leading experts on the new coronavirus has said there is no guarantee that a vaccine will be successfully developed, meaning that the threat is going to loom “for the foreseeable future.” “You don’t necessarily develop a vaccine that is safe and effective against every virus,” Britain’s David Nabarro, a professor of…
LOCAL The tight controls on who should get tested have frustrated people who have symptoms but aren’t part of the highest-risk groups. Thousands more Oregonians could get tested for coronavirus right now but state leaders aren’t ready to ease restrictive screening guidelines that could help them identify additional infections and better understand the breadth of…
At his daily press briefing, Gov. J.B. Pritzker reported that 125 more people in the state have died from the new coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 1,259 since the start of the outbreak. That matches the largest number of coronavirus-related deaths in a 24-hour period. Officials also announced 1,585 new known COVID-19 cases Saturday,…
CLOSEIt’s hard to imagine two more eager blood donors than the men who bared their arms Friday and made Cincinnati’s first contributions to a just-begun clinical study of plasma as a treatment for the lung disease resulting from the novel coronaviruss.“I am feeling so good, feeling so much energy,” said Mohammad Alagha of Clifton, an…
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…