silent spreading.Scientists in China have shed new light on how readily the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads unseen from person to person — a form of "cryptic" transmission that can transform a manageable outbreak into an out-of-control epidemic.People infected with the new coronavirus are almost certainly emitting it for close to 2 ½ days before their first…
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…