The confirmed United States death toll from coronavirus has topped 250,000, the highest figure of any country in the world. The grim milestone was confirmed by Baltimore’sBaltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, which collates worldwide data on Covid-19 fatalities and cases, on…
On March 18th, 2020, a 43- year-old British pilot in Vietnam, Stephen Cameron, was diagnosed with Covid-19 and admitted to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital. As the most critically ill patient in the country. Cameron became a rallying point…
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Doug Ericksen’s death Friday came weeks after he said he had tested positive for the coronavirus while in El Salvador, though his cause of death wasn’t immediately released. The state Senate Republican Caucus confirmed his passing Saturday but did not say…
Colin Powell was born in New York, a city, on April 5, 1937, and he died on – October 18, 2021. He was an American politician, diplomat, statesman, and four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State…
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced growing pressure Friday to impose a strict nationwide lockdown, despite the economic pain it will exact, as an incredible surge in coronavirus cases that has battered the country’s health system…
The Covid-19 vaccine developed by the British drugs group AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has achieved a “winning formula” for efficacy, the company’s chief executive said on Sunday. The vaccine, currently being evaluated by Britain’s independent medicines regulator, provides…
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. — Initial shipments of the second COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S. left a distribution center Sunday, a desperately needed boost as the nation works to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control. The trucks left the factory…
Curtis Luterman moved his mother, Mary, into the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Wash., in June. She is 89 years old. She’d been living on the East Coast, nearly 3,000 miles away. He wanted her to “experience the beautiful Pacific…
The fast-spreading coronavirus is getting the critical attention by the CDC as the U.S. health organization is now responding to “the first possible outbreak” of the virus at a U.S. long-term care facility in Washington. Health officials in Washington state…
Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes died Dec. 1 in Tampa, Florida, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, said Maurice Sconiers of the Sconiers Funeral Home in Columbus, Georgia. Her daughter, Delethia Ridley Malmsten, said the cause was old…
Gary Friedkin passed away on Friday, December 2, at a hospice facility in Youngstown, Ohio, according to an obituary from his family in the Tribune Chronicle. The obituary states he was hospitalized for three-and-a-half weeks and died due to COVID-19 complications.…
