A new coronavirus test has the potential to produce results in about 40 minutes, at least six times faster than the test used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Similarly to the tests that are already available, this new one uses data that's collected from a nasal swab. Using CRISPR, a technology that…
Joshua Chung, Asbury Park Press Published 5:00 a.m. ET April 16, 2020 | Updated 8:59 a.m. ET April 16, 2020CLOSE The U.S. is currently facing a shortage of ventilators. Here's how they work and why they are so important in fighting COVID-19. USA TODAYTwo urgent care medical centers have opened drive-thru and in-office testing for people…
Good Morning!The threat of a resurgence of coronavirus could be with us for the next four years, prompting the need for some level of social distancing into 2022, says a new Harvard study.The research, by a team from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, says that recurrent winter outbreaks of the virus SARS-CoV-2…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A New York mother who contracted the novel coronavirus while in her third trimester was released from the hospital to the sound of staff applause earlier this month, and greeted by her newborn son who was delivered via emergency C-section…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.As officials cautiously begin discussing potential steps to take in order to safely reopen the country without creating another spike in new coronavirus cases, antibody or serology testing has become an increasingly hot topic.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday…
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…