Scientists around the world have been racing to develop treatments, cures and a vaccine for COVID-19, and are getting closer by the day. Jacob Glanville – one of the stars of Netflix documentary Pandemic – runs Distributed Bio, which has been working … Read More
A nurse walking by a triage tent set up outside of the emergency room at Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch, California on April 30, 2009. The hospital was preparing for a potential flood of patients worried they might have … Read More
In six counties in and around San Francisco, the government has already called for residents to “shelter in place.” JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES WASHINGTON — Six counties in the San Francisco metro area made headlines when they announced Monday they were ordering … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, The “news” is despicable. It’s hard to imagine anything less interesting than listening to some doctor speculate. Especially when they roll out predictions about the number of Americans that will die on account of the scary virus. … Read More
The United States on Thursday overtook China and Italy in confirmed coronavirus cases with over 82,000 in all, a grim milestone reported by Johns Hopkins University researchers. As the U.S. surged up to 82,404 confirmed COVID-19 cases Thursday, it took the number-one spot from … Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday unsealed a searing criminal indictment against Venezuelan socialist leader Nicolas Maduro and several “co-conspirators,” accusing them of an array of narcotics and trafficking-related crimes, including efforts to smuggle drugs into the United States. At a press … Read More
The History of Pandemics Pan·dem·ic /panˈdemik/ (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world. As humans have spread across the world, so have infectious diseases. Even in this modern era, outbreaks are nearly constant, though not every … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, Did you hear about the elderly man in Italy who was in isolation with his wife for fourteen days? He died. She strangled him. (That’s a joke, maybe a bad one.) Or is laughing outlawed too? Never … Read More
Globally, there are more than 245,000 cases of which 88,465 people recovered, in 158 countries and territories, according to various trackers. Here’s what’s happening on March 20: People stand apart as they line up to enter a supermarket in Milan, … Read More
