Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Air Pollution Takes a Toll on the Brain Even short-term exposure to polluted air may impair mental ability in the elderly. Aspirin and other NSAIDs showed some protective effects. Credit…Getty Images May 17, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Long-term exposure to air pollution… Read More »
Forty hours after treating her first coronavirus patient, on March 30, Angela Aston came home to her family with a cough. “Gosh, your throat is scratchy,” her husband told her. Right away she knew she had likely been infected with Covid-19. As a nurse practitioner, Ms. Aston, 50, was confident she knew how to handle… Read More »
Britain records 880 more Covid-19 cases in highest daily spike for a MONTH amid fears more lockdowns are ‘unavoidable’ because the outbreak has reached a ‘tipping point’ – as officials also post another 120 deaths Department of Health statistics show it is the most amount of infections registered in a day since June 28, Health… Read More »
The number of coronavirus deaths in the UK would have been halved if lockdown had been introduced a week earlier, a former government adviser has said. Prof Neil Ferguson, whose advice was crucial to the decision to go into lockdown, said the outbreak had been doubling in size every three or four days before measures… Read More »
America marked that grim death toll Monday as almost every state has made plans to partially reopen some businesses, something critics fear might contribute to an increase in the daily reports of fatalities. In New York, where there have been more than 26,000 deaths, coronavirus infection and hospitalization rates are down to where they were… Read More »
A worker wearing protective garments sanitizes the Duomo square, during the coronavirus disease outbreak in central Milan, Italy. Flavio Lo Scalzo | REUTERS This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. Global cases: At least 1,197,405 Global deaths: At least 64,606 Top 5 countries: United States (308,850), Spain (126,168), Italy (124,632), , Germany (96,092),… Read More »
People wearing face masks ride escalators inside Hankou Railway Station on January 22, 2020 in Wuhan, China. A new infectious coronavirus known as “2019-nCoV” was discovered in Wuhan last week. Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below in Beijing Time, beginning on Wednesday. 9:30 am: Hong Kong… Read More »