Three members of the White House coronavirus taskforce have placed themselves in self-quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19. It comes as the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, prepares to unveil his “roadmap” to a new normality in a national broadcast and global infections pass four million. Dr Anthony Fauci, the director…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Experts warn the infections may actually be higher due to low testing rates in many countries More than four million confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported around the world, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.The global death toll has also risen to above 277,000.The US remains…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Experts warn the infections may actually be higher due to low testing rates in many countries More than four million confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported around the world, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.The global death toll has also risen to above 277,000.The US remains…
CLOSE About 100 research groups around the world are pursuing vaccines against the coronavirus, with nearly a dozen in early stages of human trials or poised to start. Finding out for sure if any of the vaccines work in the real world comes next. (May 4) AP DomesticAn unprecedented, all-out global race to develop a…
In late February, the virus expert Nevan Krogan called an early morning meeting at his UCSF lab in Mission Bay and told 20 fellow scientists that their lives were about to change. The new coronavirus, which emerged in China, was now spreading from person to person in California. Health authorities had just confirmed it. Soon…
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…