Buck Bully
[USA TODAY] RIO DE JANEIRO – He’s shown disdain for facts and science-based recommendations. He’s said the public will eventually realize they were “tricked” by governors and large parts of the media over a “measly little cold.” He’s embraced chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as treatments for the coronavirus despite no evidence of the anti-malaria drugs’ effectiveness […]
[The New York Post, Getty Images] President Trump’s infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday called the coronavirus his “worst nightmare” and warned that the fight against its spread is far from over. The bleak outlook from Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, […]
[Forbes] A spokeswoman said on Tuesday that National Guard members, who were sent to D.C. to respond to riots starting on May 31 and have since been among hundreds of thousands of protestors in the nation’s capital, have tested positive for COVID-19, bolstering concerns over a protest-induced spike in coronavirus cases. KEY […]
Preliminary data from 23andMe’s ongoing genetic study of COVID-19 appears to lend more evidence for the importance of a person’s blood type — determined by the ABO gene — in differences in the susceptibility to the virus. 23andMe is still recruiting for its massive study, most recently seeking 10,000 participants outside of 23andMe who have […]
[CNN] (Mexico City) For months, Latin America watched the rest of the world suffer as the coronavirus spread. It is a spectator no longer. “This is the new epicenter,” said Dr. Marcos Espinal, director of communicable diseases at the Pan American Health Organization. Months after emerging from a relatively obscure […]
[Bloomberg] Outbreak in Tennessee reveals virus spread across U.S. farms Farmhands work at grave risk and harvests are threatened One farm in Tennessee distributed Covid-19 tests to all of its workers after an employee came down with the virus. It turned out that every single one of its roughly 200 employees had […]
[Chicago Tribune] Gov. J.B. Pritzker confirms that all four regions of Illinois will move to the third phase of his five-phase reopening plan on Friday. The 28-day tracking period for all four regions will reset on Friday, meaning the earliest any region could move into the next phase is June 26, Pritzker […]
[WHSV] RICHMOND, Va. — As of Thursday, May 28, Virginia has had 41,401 total cases of COVID-19, including confirmed lab tests and clinical diagnoses, according to the Virginia Department of Health. Graphic courtesy: Virginia Department of Health That’s a rise of 1,152 cases since Wednesday, alongside 11,447 newly reported tests, which […]
[CNBC] The U.S. has surpassed the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths as a result of the coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, significantly more than any other country in the world. A tally from Johns Hopkins University showed 100,047 deaths as of Wednesday evening. More than 5.6 million people […]
[KNBC, GETTY IMAGES] What to Know Another 933 confirmed cases of the illness were announced, while Long Beach added 61 more, giving the county a total of 48,761. A total of 53% of the county’s deaths from the virus have occurred in institutional settings, the vast majority of those at […]