TOPLINE New coronavirus cases are notably rising in North Dakota, Texas and Alabama, three of the states that have begun to lift shutdown measures, but it remains unclear whether these upticks are a result of increased test availability or economic reopening. WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 07: U.S. President Donald Trump (R) speaks to reporters while…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Texas saw its deadliest COVID-19 day of the coronavirus pandemic so far, with state officials reporting 58 deaths during a time span between Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, according to state tabulations.In Corpus Christi, 63 workers of the 747 employees,…
New York Daily News | Apr 24, 2020 | 9:13 PM President Trump speaks at the White House earlier this week.(Drew Angerer/Getty Images) An unusually high number of New Yorkers contacted city health authorities over fears that they had ingested bleach or other household cleaners in the 18 hours that followed President Trump’s bogus claim…
Public health officials announced another 178 new COVID-19-related deaths on Thursday, bringing the statewide total to 2,360.Officials confirmed another 3,079 positive tests as well — the highest number in a single day — for a total of 46,023 cases of coronavirus statewide.But that increase coincides with the largest single report of new testing, with 14,614…
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…