BuzzFeed News has reporters around the world bringing you trustworthy stories about the impact of the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member. As experts feared would happen, COVID-19 deaths in the US have started to rise, following a surge in newly diagnosed cases beginning in the middle of June.The new spikes…
Published: Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 4:09pmUpdated: Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 4:17pm The COVID-19 test site at Mesa Community College is looking for more patients.The drive-up site is open 24 hours a day and offers tests at no cost. Patients with health insurance should bring insurance information; those without should bring identification. The site can…
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Corpus Christi and Nueces County Public Health District has reported eight COVID-19 related deaths. That raises the death count to 50 for Nueces county."Our condolences go out to the families and friends of the deceased residents. Further information is not being released for privacy and confidentiality reason," said a press…
A fifth resident of San Luis Obispo County has died due to COVID-19, health officials reported on Saturday.According to the San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department, the individual was in their 70's and had multiple underlying health conditions. The patient passed away at home and the cause of transmission was community spread, health officials…
AUSTIN, Texas – The new coronavirus continues to cut its record-setting swath through Texas as state officials reported a record 10,351 new cases for the day Saturday.That brought the total cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, to just over a quarter-million dating to the start of tracking in early March.The true number…
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…