Hospitals across the United States are seeing fewer stroke and heart patients coming to their facilities for care — and two new reports suggest that concerns around the coronavirus pandemic are keeping people from seeking the care they need. Early research posted on Monday to the online health sciences server medRxiv found a nearly 18%
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YouTube star Corey La Barrie died on his 25th birthday after being involved in a car crash with a drunk driver, a lawyer for the La Barrie family confirmed. “Right now, I can tell you that the family is in absolute shell shock,” Michael Kraut, one of the two attorneys for the La Barrie family,
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Click here for updates on this story OWOSSO, MI (WNEM ) — A Shiawassee County judge has sided with an Owosso barber by turning down a complaint by the state Attorney General’s Office to obtain a temporary restraining order against the business. Karl Manke’s Barber Shop continues to welcome patrons, with some driving hours to
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Two giant signs at a White House press conference amplified a claim that President Donald Trump consistently makes: “AMERICA LEADS THE WORLD IN TESTING” “We’ve prevailed on testing,” Trump said Monday, standing between the signs. While the US may have performed the most number of coronavirus tests, it’s nowhere near the world’s leader in testing
Continue Reading Two giant signs at a White House press conference amplified a claim that President Donald Trump consistently makes: “AMERICA LEADS THE WORLD IN TESTING” “We’ve prevailed on testing,” Trump said Monday, standing between the signs. While the US may have performed the most number of coronavirus tests, it’s nowhere near the world’s leader in testing
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The patient had been relatively fine for the first 10 days he was down with Covid-19. Just 38, he didn’t fit the description of people at high risk of complications from the new coronavirus. “He had mild pulmonary symptoms that he was just sitting at home with,” said Dr. Sean Wengerter, a vascular surgeon in
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The patient had been relatively fine for the first 10 days he was down with Covid-19. Just 38, he didn’t fit the description of people at high risk of complications from the new coronavirus. “He had mild pulmonary symptoms that he was just sitting at home with,” said Dr. Sean Wengerter, a vascular surgeon in
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s coronavirus surge continued Tuesday night as the Department of Public Health reported three new deaths and 65 more cases. The announcements brought the county’s death count to 36 and raised the total number of confirmed cases to 1,413. One of those new cases reported was that of an employee
Continue Reading The mayor of Los Angeles told CNN on Tuesday that residents shouldn’t overreact to a top county health official’s announcement that a stay-at-home order will stay in place for months. Mayor Eric Garcetti told Anderson Cooper, “When our county health officer Dr. (Barbara) Ferrer merely said that an order would stay in place for at
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The mayor of Los Angeles told CNN on Tuesday that residents shouldn’t overreact to a top county health official’s announcement that a stay-at-home order will stay in place for months. Mayor Eric Garcetti told Anderson Cooper, “When our county health officer Dr. (Barbara) Ferrer merely said that an order would stay in place for at
Continue Reading A woman suffered burns after falling into a thermal feature at Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday, according to the park officials. Yellowstone has been closed to visitors since March 24 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The woman “illegally entered the park,” the National Park Service (NPS) said in a statement. She told park rangers she
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – After two months on lockdown, the executive director of the Gospel Rescue Mission said he’s grateful no one inside the Las Cruces facility has contracted the virus. “We did not even have an outbreak of flu here this season,” said Henry Young. “So, it has been remarkable. I attribute that
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EL PASO, Texas– One percussion director at Bel Air High School is hoping to give back to the class of 2020 through an online project, and he’s getting a little help from celebrity actor, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. “It was based off of Joe’s platform, HitRecord, and through this platform you can just create an account and
Continue Reading Millions of people in Wuhan will be tested for the novel coronavirus within the coming days, after a new cluster of cases emerged despite a strict 76-day lockdown that was intended to eliminate the virus from the central Chinese city. Over the weekend, six new cases were reported in the city, the first in 35
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The Supreme Court arguments on Tuesday, held over telephone and broadcast live, over subpoenas of President Donald Trump’s financial records were indeed historic, leading the justices and lawyers to grapple with nearly 250 years of American history, investigations of presidents and questions about the future of separation of powers. The cases tackled whether Trump can
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They’d said it before, but President Donald Trump’s attorney put it more bluntly than ever: “We’re asking for temporary presidential immunity,” Jay Sekulow told the Supreme Court Tuesday. “Temporary presidential immunity,” in the way the President’s lawyers describe it, would mean that Trump (or whomever is president at the time) couldn’t be investigated or prosecuted
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House Democrats announced a sweeping new Covid-19 stimulus bill on Tuesday with a price tag expected to be more than $3 trillion — an amount that would stand as the largest relief package in history. The legislation, which provides funding for state and local governments, coronavirus testing, and a new round of direct payments to
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Disney is not throwing away its shot with “Hamilton.” It’s fast tracking the premiere of the filmed version of the original Broadway production. It’ll now stream on Disney+ on July 3. The Walt Disney Company, the musical’s creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller and Thomas Kail made the announcement Tuesday. Miranda, Seller, and Kail serve as
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Dr. Anthony Fauci and the other experts at the top tiers of the American public health system have been clear: Reopening the nation without adhering to the clear guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would be a colossal, deadly mistake. But will states, and even the Trump administration, listen? In his
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As leading medical experts testified Tuesday to senators for the first time since March about government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, officials in one of the nation’s most populous counties said a stay-at-home order will stay in place for months as restrictions are slowly lifted. “With all certainty,” the local order will be extended another
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As the United States begins to reopen its economy, debates rage world-wide about how to balance economic hardship with a public health hazard. With no easy answers to the dilemma, Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser for Allianz, says the focus needs to be on learning from the “massive experiment.” “The reality is that we are
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Newly-released police video of a weekend shooting in a crowded North Texas park shows a chaotic scene as gunfire erupted and five people were left wounded. A police statement Tuesday said about 400 people were gathered in Village Creek Park in southeastern Fort Worth park about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, where they
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EL PASO, Texas — The Rogers Early Learning Academy at the YWCA has yet to shut its doors during this coronavirus pandemic, with the daycare is offering services to essential employees. “It’s been a very challenging time,” said Elva Guerrero, the director of the academy. “I have an underlying medical issue, so coming to work
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Two men who allegedly refused to wear masks inside a Target store in California are facing felony battery charges after a fight that left an employee security guard with a broken arm, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The suspects were not wearing face coverings when they entered the store’s Van Nuys location on
Continue Reading Two men who allegedly refused to wear masks inside a Target store in California are facing felony battery charges after a fight that left an employee security guard with a broken arm, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The suspects were not wearing face coverings when they entered the store’s Van Nuys location on
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Coronavirus infections are still climbing both in Doña Ana County and at Otero County detention facilities, state health officials said Tuesday. Doña Ana County recorded another 14 virus cases, pushing the county’s total to 245. It was the fourth-straight day of double-digit case increases in the county. But Doña Ana’s
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HOUSTON, Texas — Texas will begin widespread coronavirus testing in state prisons where at least 30 people have died, officials announced Tuesday. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott also said he tested negative for the virus after his visit last week to the White House came on the same day that a valet to President Donald Trump
Continue Reading The night Miguel Moran died from complications of the coronavirus, his 23-year-old son and four other family members put on their face masks and rushed to a suburban New York hospital to be at his bedside. One by one, they donned a hospital-issued plastic gown, a head covering and gloves. They spent a few minutes
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine how a man with apparently no security clearance ended up on a runway at a Texas airport where he was struck and killed by a landing commercial jet. Junin Ko, 22, died Thursday night when a Southwest Airlines plane struck him as it landed at Austin-Bergstrom
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