Did protests lead to more outbreaks? Here’s what we know so far.June 30, 2020ImageDr. Anthony Fauci warned today that the U.S. could have as many as 100,000 new cases a day — up from the current 40,000 — if the coronavirus is not contained.New cases in the U.S. have gone up 80 percent in the…
June 30, 2020 | 1:06pm | Updated June 30, 2020 | 2:41pm Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday ripped into Dr. Anthony Fauci and what he called government “central planners” during a hearing on COVID-19 response, asserting that Americans should not be “sheep” — and that US schools should reopen. “It is a fatal conceit…
To curb the rising number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday said the state plans to announce tougher enforcement of health rules on Wednesday as the Fourth of July weekend approaches. He did not specify what those new rules might look like, however. “Tomorrow we will be making some…
A COVID-19-tracking website built by the cofounders of Instagram shows Nevada currently has the highest rate of coronavirus transmission in the country. The rt.live website calculates that each case of COVID-19 in Nevada is resulting in 1.56 new infections. The finding comes as the state has been reporting record numbers of newly diagnosed cases, an…
The American Academy of Pediatrics worries that without going to school, children lose access to behavioral and mental health services, food programs, and ar...
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…