by Jim Heath | Apr 22, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
The Navy has 26 warships with confirmed coronavirus cases aboard, a service official confirmed today. The 26 ships are all in port and each have a “very small number of cases aboard,” the official told The Hill. Another 14 Navy vessels have had COVID-19 cases in the...
by Jim Heath | Apr 21, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
An Idaho Republican lawmaker says stay-at-home orders are ‘no different’ to sending Jews to concentration camps. State representative Heather Scott also compared Idaho’s Republican Governor Brad Little to Adolf Hitler after he extended the statewide...
by Jim Heath | Apr 21, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
Even as states move ahead with plans to reopen their economies, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned today that a second wave of the novel coronavirus will be far more dire because it is likely to coincide with the start of flu season....
by Jim Heath | Apr 21, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
A malaria drug widely touted by President Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported. With...
by Jim Heath | Apr 21, 2020 | Conventions, Headlines, Health
Finding virus carriers—especially those with no symptoms—is among the biggest hurdles to addressing the pandemic. But what if dogs can do that? Scientists in London say that dogs could in fact revolutionize the hunt for Covid-19 by sniffing out subtle odors produced...
