(CNN)Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, says current technology makes it impossible to test every American for coronavirus. The United States, she says, will need a "breakthrough" in testing to screen large numbers of people. …
Published: April 27, 2020 at 2:35 a.m. ET A trial in a New York hospital is testing the heartburn medication Pepcid as a treatment for COVID-19, according to a report in Science. Pepcid, a generic drug marketed by Merck MRK, +0.68% and Johnson & Johnson JNJ, -0.41%, is being tested on 187 COVID-19 patients in…
The tests are not reliable enough to guide policy on lockdowns and reopenings, experts said. But they can help model the spread of the virus.A health care worker labels a blood sample for coronavirus antibody testing at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.Credit...Lucas Jackson/ReutersApril 26, 2020Updated 8:21 p.m. ETA survey of New Yorkers last week found…
The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 1,753 confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Wednesday, April 22. One new death was reported, raising the total number of people who have died to 34 in the county. There were 67 new cases of the virus reported as of Wednesday. The daily update noted another 662…
A Connecticut police department said it plans to begin testing a "pandemic drone" that could detect whether a person 190 feet away has a fever or is coughing.But an expert on viruses and a privacy advocate question whether such technology can work and, if it does, whether it would help in controlling the spread of…
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…