The Cloud Gate in Chicago, Illinois, nicknamed “the Bean.” Last updated on May 5 at 1:55 p.m. E.D.T. This page is updated twice a week. Latest updates — As of May 5, Illinois is reporting 63,840 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and…
Amirouche Hammar was admitted to a hospital in Paris on December 27 with ‘very serious’ chest pains that left doctors baffled, and he now claims to be Europe’s coronavirus Covid-19 ‘patient zero’ Amirouche Hammar, 43, claims he was the first…
On April 19, a protestor in Helena, Montana holds up a sign to protest stay-at-home measures. Similar protests have taken hold across the country over the past couple of weeks. By June, there could be nearly twice as many coronavirus…
Researchers conduct COVID-19 testing in Garfield Park, San Francisco as part of a mass testing effort in part of the city’s Mission District neighborhood. A COVID-19 mass testing effort within San Francisco’s Mission District — which aimed to broadly test…
Last updated May 5 at 11:25 a.m. E.D.T. Today (May 5), New Hampshire reported 2,588 confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to the tracker updated by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. This makes New…
The Great Lakes — Superior, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Erie — make up the largest body of fresh water on Earth, accounting for one-fifth of the freshwater surface on the planet at 6 quadrillion gallons. The area of all the…
Vespa mandarinia, or Asian giant hornets, as also known as “yak-killer hornets,” “murder hornets,” and “hornets from hell.” Massive, deadly hornets affectionately known as “murder hornets” “hornets from hell” and “yak-killer hornets,” have been spotted in the U.S. for the…
An illustration of the Tully monster, a weird creature with hammerhead-like eyes and a slender snout. There are few ancient creatures as controversial as the Tully monster, a bowling-pin-sized oddity with eyes like a hammerhead that lived about 307 million…
Last updated April 30 at 6:48 p.m. ET. —New York is reporting at least 318,953 total positive cases of COVID-19 and 19,415 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, with 58,950 patients having recovered and 9,647 currently hospitalized. That makes it still the state…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued more stringent rules for COVID-19 antibody tests sold in the U.S., after a slew of antibody tests hit the market without adequate proof that they really work, according to news reports.…