Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 03:46 (about 5 hours ago)
A tuberculosis vaccine routinely given to children in countries with high rates of that bacterial disease might be helping to reduce deaths from COVID-19, researchers reported on Thursday in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. After accounting for differences in factors that might affect vulnerability to the virus - such as income, education, health services and age distribution - the researchers found that countries with higher rates of Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccinations for tuberculosis had lower peak mortality rates from COVID-19. A good example was Germany, which had different vaccine plans before East Germany and West Germany were unified in 1990, the researchers said. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 03:46 (about 5 hours ago)
The sheriff's department has released new photos of a man and a possible female accomplice involved in a vicious beating and robbery of an 80-year-old grandfather at a Lancaster grocery store. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 03:46 (about 5 hours ago)
A newly discovered comet is streaking past Earth, providing a stunning nighttime show after buzzing the sun and expanding its tail. Comet Neowise ? the brightest comet visible from the Northern Hemisphere in a quarter-century ? swept within Mercury?s orbit a week ago. NASA's Neowise infrared space telescope discovered the comet in March. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 03:46 (about 5 hours ago)
Diseases like Zika and HIV can infect fetuses, and now some researchers think the novel coronavirus can as well. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 03:46 (about 5 hours ago)
Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell filed court documents on Friday asking her released on bail as she awaits trial amid the coronavirus pandemic. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 02:16 (about 7 hours ago)
When the virus was first discovered, doctors thought COVID-19 was a respiratory disease, but they've since learned it can also cause blood clots. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 02:16 (about 7 hours ago)
Kazakhstan health officials on Friday dismissed a Chinese report that the Central Asian country is facing an outbreak of pneumonia that is more deadly than coronavirus. The Kazakh denial follows a notice issued Thursday by the Chinese embassy that warned its citizens about an outbreak of pneumonia in the ex-Soviet nation that is producing a death rate higher than that from COVID-19-induced pneumonia. ?This information doesn't conform to reality,? Kazakhstan's Health Ministry said. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 02:16 (about 7 hours ago)
The UN Security Council failed to find a consensus on prolonging cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria on Friday after Russia and China vetoed an extension and members rejected a counter proposal by Moscow. Without an agreement, authorization for the transport of aid to war-torn Syria, which has existed since 2014, expired Friday night. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 02:16 (about 7 hours ago)
Houston has become one of the worst hit cities in Texas, and authorities predicts hospitals will be overwhelmed in the coming days. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 11th July 2020 at 02:16 (about 7 hours ago)
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy discusses efforts for a bipartisan police reform bill. #