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200 hospitals have been at full capacity, and 1/3 of all US hospitals are almost out of ICU space

Dec 11, 2020

Newly released data from the US Department of Health and Human Services show at least 200 hospitals were at full capacity last week. And in one third of all US...

The Deadliest Day: US coronavirus deaths surpass 3,000 - the highest in a single day to date

Dec 11, 2020

At least 3,124 Americans died yesterday, which is the highest number of deaths in a single day throughout the pandemic. Cases per day are now eclipsing 200,000 on average for...

New CDC coronavirus forecast: 362,000 dead by Jan. 2

Dec 11, 2020

The CDC made the prediction in its weekly “ensemble forecast,” which combines national and stave-level forecasts into an aggregate prediction on the state of COVID-19 over the next four weeks....

WATCH: CNN’s New Day Airs Jaw-Dropping Report on Parking Garage Converted to Hospital to Handle Covid Cases

Dec 11, 2020

On Wednesday, the United States hit yet another grim milestone of over 3,000 deaths from the potentially deadly contagion in just one day. According to the COVID Tracking Project, 3,054...

Saurabh Amin: Striving to make our infrastructure safer

Dec 11, 2020

Amin started to work on infrastructure systems as an undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology at Roorkee, India’s oldest technology institute. I think our curriculum actually had a very...

Big data offers promise of better groundwater management in California

Dec 11, 2020

The research shows that existing groundwater wells already penetrate and encroach upon the bases of fresh water that are used to define basin bottoms. In addition, brackish waters exist within...

Surviving birth

Dec 11, 2020

Obstetrician Dr Annettee Nakimuli and colleagues look after up to 28,000 births a year at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. “We are a national referral hospital so we receive everybody......

Gene therapy injection in one eye surprises scientists by improving vision in both

Dec 11, 2020

The study, published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine, indicates that 78% of treated patients experienced significant visual improvement in both eyes. It suggests that the improvement in vision...

Breakthrough in nuclear physics

Dec 11, 2020

The strong interaction is one of the four fundamental forces in physics. And they too are held together by the strong interaction. The theory of the strong interaction can be...

US virus deaths hit record levels with the holidays ahead

Dec 11, 2020

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, file photo, critical care nurses and respiratory therapists flip a patient with COVID-19 upright at North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale, Minn....