Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY Published 3:21 p.m. ET May 11, 2020 | Updated 4:25 p.m. ET May 11, 2020CLOSE Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm talks about our lack of national plan and when we will have testing available. USA TODAYA high-profile infectious disease researcher warns COVID-19 is in the early stages of attacking the world,…
California is one of a handful of states where coronavirus cases and deaths are projected to rise faster than researchers expected, according to the latest calculations in a widely relied-upon model of the COVID-19 outbreak.Christopher Murray, director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation”…
Two days after President Donald Trump broke with health experts and said he believes the coronavirus will go away without a vaccine, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security rebutted his claim. “This virus isn’t going to go away,” Dr. Tom Inglesby told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. “Hopefully over time…
(CNN)The new coronavirus is likely to keep spreading for at least another 18 months to two yearsuntil 60% to 70% of the population has been infected, a team of longstanding pandemic experts predicted in a report released Thursday. They recommended that the U…
News ReleaseTuesday, April 21, 2020 “Living document” expected to be updated often as new clinical data accrue. Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (orange), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland.NIAID A panel of U.S. physicians,…
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…