Tag: Deaths (Fatalities)
Is Covid More Dangerous Than Driving? How Scientists Are Parsing Covid Risks.
Like it or not, the choose-your-own-adventure period of the pandemic is upon us.Mask mandates have fallen. Some free…
India Is Stalling the W.H.O.’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public
An ambitious effort by the World Health Organization to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic…
How Covid and Diabetes Collide in a Public Health Train Wreck
Diabetes is an insidious disease that significantly increases the risks of premature blindness, stroke, and circulatory and neurological…
Family’s Balcony Death in Switzerland Appears to Be Suicide
The four members of a French family who were found dead at the bottom of an apartment building…
A Vow to Ease Bombing Is Too Late for Many in Ukraine City Near Kyiv
KYIV, Ukraine — Thousands of people have been fleeing the northern outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, escaping…
Desperate for Cash, Afghans Toil in Mines That Are Deadlier Than Ever
CHINARAK COAL MINE, Afghanistan — Choking on dust, Mir Abdul Hadi emerged from the narrow mine shaft with…
4 Die After Falling From Balcony in Swiss Resort Town
Four people, apparently members of the same family, died after falling from the balcony of their seventh-floor apartment…
6 Oklahoma High School Students Killed in Crash
Six high school students were killed in a crash on Tuesday when the vehicle they were in collided…
Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates
While health surveillance is weak, he acknowledged, Sierra Leoneans have the recent, terrible experience of Ebola, which killed…
13-Year-Old Boy Drove Truck That Hit Van in Texas, Killing 9, Officials Say
A 13-year-old boy was behind the wheel of a pickup truck that struck a van in Texas on…
Ukrainian Forces Strike Back at Russia as Biden Sends More Firepower
ODESSA, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces carried out counter-offensives against Russian positions on Wednesday, seeking to inflict what one…
Nine Dead, Including Coach and Six College Golfers, in Texas Wreck
The University of the Southwest’s golf teams were making the kind of drive familiar to athletes at plenty…