by Jim Heath | Jan 19, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
The United States hit a grim milestone and surpassed 400,000 coronavirus deaths today, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That figure is more than the number of Americans who died during World War I, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined and nearly...
by Jim Heath | Jan 18, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
Five prominent anti-vaccine organizations that have been known to spread misleading information about the coronavirus received more than $850,000 in loans from the federal Paycheck Protection Program, raising questions about why the government is giving money to...
by Jim Heath | Jan 14, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Joe Biden
President-elect Joe Biden tonight unveiled a $1.9 trillion package to provide economic relief to Americans and businesses and help fund an ambitious coronavirus vaccine program with the goal of reaching 100 million doses by the end of his first 100 days in office....
by Jim Heath | Jan 14, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
A trauma surgeon says lungs of recovered COVID-19 patients look far worse than even those of smokers. Dr Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, an assistant professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, has been treating thousand of people ill with the disease since...
by Jim Heath | Jan 14, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
With COVID-19 fatalities rising as high as 4,000 in a day, CDC scientists predict the death toll could increase by nearly 25 percent – more than 92,000 – in the next three weeks. By the end of the week ending in February 6, the agency estimates the US...
by Jim Heath | Jan 4, 2021 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Health
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has plunged England into a new national lockdown until at least mid-February to combat the super-infectious mutant coronavirus that is already spreading across the United States. Johnson today ordered people to stay at home again,...
