A new study suggests immune responses to coronavirus in severely ill and critically ill patients are as strong or stronger than those of patients with milder illness. This adds to the evidence that the immune system itself is to blame for the most life-threatening form of the infection.Immune cells known as T cells are responsible…
SEATTLE One person was killed and another critically injured after a shooting in Seattle's Capitol Hill protest zone early Saturday morning, authorities said. The shooting happened at approximately …
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Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Doctors at a Massachusetts hospital are crediting an experimental blood plasma treatment for improving the condition of a gravely ill COVID-19 patient.The patient’s vital signs were quickly turning south at UMass Memorial Health Care last Saturday, according to a local…
April 22, 2020 April 22, 2020 WORCESTER, MASS. (WHDH) - A critically ill coronavirus patient at a Massachusetts hospital is showing “significant improvement” after recently undergoing a plasma treatment, health officials announced. After undergoing hours of transfusion at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, the patient had a dramatic turnaround and is now being weaned…
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…