Daily COVID Report / Today COVID REPORT: Octogenarian Becomes Humboldt's Eighth COVID Fatality; Seven New Cases Diagnosed Since Friday Press release from the Humboldt County Joint Information Center: A Humboldt County resident in their 80s has died at an out-of-county hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19. This marks the eighth death of a county resident…
Covid-19 cases are on the rise again across the United States as more and more states have loosened restrictions put into place to slow the spread of the killer virus, NBC News figures showed Monday.On Friday, the U.S. logged 55,759 cases — the largest single day total in a month. And the troubling development comes…
Once the herd immunity threshold is reached, the virus just doesn’t go away. Arthobbit via Getty Images There are two ways to reach herd immunity for Covid-19: the slow way, and the catastrophic way. How will the Covid-19 pandemic end? And when? These have been the biggest questions since the pandemic began earlier this year. The…
The nearly 1 million people around the world who have lost their lives to COVID-19 have left us a gift: Through desperate efforts to save their lives, scientists now better understand how to treat and prevent the disease — and millions of others may survive.Ming Wang, 71, and his wife were on a cruise from…
September 27, 2020 | 8:49am | Updated September 27, 2020 | 8:49am Enlarge Image A sign advising people to wear a face mask is shown on the door of a business in London. AFP via Getty Images A UK government science adviser warned Sunday that ongoing lockdowns just “defer the problem” — and warned that…
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…