Six people in South Carolina have died from coronavirus after attending the same funeral. The funeral was held in Columbia in the first week of March and many who attended are now in quarantine, The State reported. “They attended that same funeral and unfortunately passed away from Covid,” Sumpter County coroner Robbie Baker said. Download the new…
Black people in New York City are twice as likely to die from coronavirus as white people, shocking new data has revealed. Grim figures released Friday by the city's Health Department show the devastating impact the pandemic is wreaking on New York's African American communities, where residents are dying from the virus more than any other…
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that over 3,500 patients and workers at skilled nursing facilities in the state are infected with the coronavirus. “It’s not lost on me, it shouldn’t be lost on you, what’s happening in our skilled nursing facilities and our senior and adult daycare facilities,” Newsom said. The California Department of Public…
At least 6,900 people living in nursing homes in the U.S. have died of the coronavirus, according to The New York Times. Data analyzed by USA Today earlier this week showed state agencies have reported more than 3,000 people have died in nursing homes across 37 states. Data from the Times shows much more than that, revealing that about…
New research has found 50 per cent of people who tested positive for COVID-19 carried no symptoms at all. The man behind the study, Dr Kári Stefánsson, and Infectious Diseases Prof Sanjaya Senanayake weigh in on the silent COVID carriers, how the virus spreads, and more. More on this: https://7news.link/coronavirusSubscribe to 7NEWS for the latest…
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…