With physician offices not seeing patients with COVID-19 symptoms in April, Timothy Regan said he had little choice when Denver Health directed him first to its urgent care facility and then to its emergency room. "I felt bad, but I had been dealing with it for a while," he says. Ethan Welty for KHN hide…
Springboks 2020-05-02 12:28 Siya Kolisi and Rassie Erasmus (Gallo Images) SA Rugby Director of Rugby Rassie Erasmus says the Springboks are working as hard as ever - despite the lockdown - to build on the Rugby World Cup victory of last year.Register your interest for the British & Irish Lions tickets in South Africa 2021Erasmus…
After a 39-year-old federal prison employee died and later tested positive for the new coronavirus, employees are speaking up about what they said are unsafe conditions at the facility where she worked. The Bureau of Prisons on Friday confirmed its first staff death potentially due to COVID-19. Robin Grubbs, a caseworker at the United States Penitentiary…
First came reports of a deadly virus spreading quickly in China, then evacuation flights and two-week quarantines on a military base in Fairfield, then an outbreak on a cruise ship that had departed from San Francisco and, by late February, a small but growing number of cases of coronavirus in the Bay Area. Within weeks,…
A color-coded map from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation shows which states are projected to reach thresholds for easing social distancing restrictions at various times. Click on the map for a larger version. (IHME Graphic) The University of Washington epidemiologists who set up a widely watched model projecting the future…
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out