Published on May 20, 2020The coronavirus pandemic is one of the biggest challenges the World Health Organization has ever faced.It's also receiving both praise and criticism for how it's dealing with the crisis.Critics say the WHO acted too slow to declare a pandemic.Its 194 member states have voted unanimously for an independent inquiry into the…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A World Health Organization database on attacks on health care makes no mention of the silencing of doctors who sought to sound the alarm on the novel coronavirus by the Chinese government — something critics say is the latest sign of…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio said Sunday he hopes to "move forward together" with his health commissioner despite days of backlash after reports that she made disparaging remarks about police officers.De Blasio said during his daily coronavirus briefing that…
Mathematical modeling studies suggest containment of COVID-19 might be possible but success of containment operations "cannot be guaranteed" since there is efficient human to human transmission, the Union health ministry said on Saturday.It also said there is no approved drug or vaccine for the treatment of COVID-19 as of now and Chemoprophylaxis with Hydroxychloroquine are…
After disappearing for more than a week, Donald Trump’s top health officials tasked with combatting the US’s worsening coronavirus outbreak appeared with the president during a White House press conference on Friday. Drs Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, two of the nation’s top infectious disease experts, stood behind Trump as he and members of the…
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…