A research group that has been widely cited by national health experts and government officials for its COVID-19 models has twice projected enormous increases in COVID-19 deaths in Maine. But in both cases, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington published new data within a matter of days that sharply…
TOPLINE Studies out of Stanford University and the University of Southern California, which have not yet been peer-reviewed, claim California communities may have seen up to 80 times the number of coronavirus cases than originally believed based on antibody tests. But these studies have come under fire by members of the scientific community, who say…
How can you speak from authority if the data you rely on is flawed? It's a problem for policymakers around the world who have been relying on a scientific model that projects the number of dead from the coronavirus. The White House has been relying on the model to formulate policy and develop plans to…
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…