2 dead from coronavirus, 45 ill after March choir rehearsal
Two people have died from Covid-19 and 45 people are ill after a March 10 choir practice in Washington state, health officials said. Of the some 60…
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FEMA sends EMTs and paramedics to New York City to help amid coronavirus crisis
The Federal Emergency Management Agency sent hundreds of ambulances, EMTs and paramedics to New York City this week to help assist FDNY amid the…
Continue Reading In Panama, coronavirus lockdown means separating men and women
Panama is taking a new — if somewhat unorthodox — measure to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus: separation of the sexes. Starting on…
Continue Reading Ellis Marsalis Jr., pianist, educator and patriarch of legendary musical family, dies of complications from coronavirus
Ellis Marsalis Jr., a New Orleans jazz legend, educator and father of four musical sons died on Wednesday, Ellis Marsalis Center for Music Director…
Continue Reading The Philippines is sending its nurses to the frontline underprotected. Now medics are dying, others risk spreading the virus
Every day, Filipina nurse April Abrias walks six miles to monitor 30 patients who are suspected to have the novel coronavirus in a rural province…
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Los Angeles mayor urges everyone in his city to wear face masks
LOS ANGELES, California — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has recommended that the city’s 4 million people wear masks when going outside amid the…
Continue Reading When will you get your stimulus cash, and how?
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. government is preparing to send out direct payments to help individuals amid the coronavirus pandemic, but those who need…
Continue Reading Asia may have been right about coronavirus and face masks, and the rest of the world is coming around
In the coming weeks, if they have not already, your government is likely to begin advising you to wear a face mask to protect against coronavirus.…
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Trump resists calling for nationwide stay-at-home as U.S. virus cases top 200,000
WASHINGTON, DC — The number of U.S. coronavirus cases surged by more than 14,000 in just a few hours Wednesday as the death toll topped 4,600. As of…
Continue Reading NYU Langone tells emergency doctors to consider who gets intubated, WSJ reports
A March 28 email from the NYU Langone Health Department of Emergency Medicine Chair told physicians to “think more critically about who we…
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Los Angeles engineer allegedly steals train, crashing it near hospital ship Mercy
LOS ANGELES, California — A train engineer intentionally drove a speeding locomotive off a track at the Port of Los Angeles because he was…
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Coronavirus is dividing blue cities from their red states
The struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic has opened a new front in the long-running conflict between blue cities and red states. Across a…
Continue Reading More than 60 residents of an Italian elder care home died in a month
More than a third of residents in an elder care home near Milan died in less than a month during the coronavirus pandemic, a spokesperson for the…
Continue Reading A sociologist known for walking every block of New York City has died of coronavirus
William Helmreich, a prominent sociologist perhaps best known for walking every block of New York City, died Saturday morning of coronavirus, his…
Continue Reading Coronavirus has police everywhere scrambling to respond as their forces are reduced
Serving and trying to protect against a threat we can’t see, law enforcement officials around the country are grappling with policing during…
Continue Reading More than 12,000 people want to be part of NASA’s next class of astronauts
NASA received an out-of-this-world number of applicants in this last month for its new class of astronauts. More than 12,000 people from every corner…
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Stocks close down sharply as physical, economic toll of virus worsens
NEW YORK, NY — Wall Street and markets around the world fell sharply Wednesday as the economic and physical toll caused by the coronavirus outbreak…
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What happens in the 4th wave of the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic is already in its third disruptive wave in the United States. First came a few cases on the West Coast, culminating in the…
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Farm scraping by to feed 4,000 pigs without strip leftovers
Click here for updates on this story Las Vegas (KVVU) — A Las Vegas farm relied on strip casinos as its main food…
Continue Reading Thousands of Tennessee doctors and local officials want the governor to issue stay-at-home order
A growing chorus of Tennessee doctors and local leaders want Gov. Bill Lee to issue a stay-at-home order, warning that the coronavirus outbreak will…
Continue Reading The timetable for a coronavirus vaccine is 18 months. Experts say that’s risky
Eighteen months might sound like a long time, but in vaccine years, it’s a blink. That’s the long end of the Trump administration’s…
Continue Reading A man was showing symptoms of coronavirus, but came to the hospital to see his partner give birth
A woman who gave birth in a New York hospital was discharged after she started showing symptoms of coronavirus. Staff at Rochester’s Strong…
Continue Reading A Facebook group matches RVs that are sitting idle with health care workers who need a place to isolate after long hospital shifts
For Mark Quale, an emergency room physician in Burlington, North Carolina, coming home after a long day at the hospital was as stressful as work…
Continue Reading Born in 1908, this British pensioner is officially the world’s oldest man
A British pensioner has just been the crowned the world’s oldest man after he celebrated his 112th birthday. Born on March 29, 1908, Robert…
Continue Reading Male bottlenose dolphins form gangs to get a mate
If you’ve ever seen a production of “West Side Story,” you’ll be familiar with gangs of males, clicking their fingers in…
Continue Reading Almost $30 million in drugs seized in nearly half-mile-long tunnel linking US and Mexico
Federal agents in San Diego seized about 4,400 pounds of drugs from a sophisticated smuggling tunnel that stretched into Tijuana, Mexico, authorities…
Continue Reading Evidence of ancient rainforests found in Antarctica
When dinosaurs roamed the Earth 90 million years ago, the planet was much warmer, including Antarctica at the South Pole. But in a surprising twist,…
Continue Reading Climate change is making nightingales’ wings shorter and their annual migration harder, study finds
Nightingales may be less likely to survive their annual migration because climate change is causing the songbirds to evolve shorter wings, new…
Continue Reading Members of a top children’s choir in Uganda test positive for coronavirus after UK tour
Members of Uganda’s internationally known Watoto Church children’s choir who just returned from Europe are among 11 new reported cases of…
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