Even as the virus has slowed its growth in overwhelmed Italy and in China, where it first emerged, hospitals in Spain and France are reaching their breaking points and the U.S. and Britain are bracing for incoming waves of desperately ill people.
The top infectious-disease expert in the United States warned that smaller U.S. cities are about to witness the rapid acceleration in coronavirus cases that New York is seeing.
A Fisherville teenager is charged with murder and driving under the influence after he reportedly crashed his SUV into a truck on Billtown Road Wednesday morning.
The number of U.S. deaths could range from 100,000 to 240,000 even if Americans continue to stay home and limit contact with others, experts predicted at a media briefing with President Donald Trump.
Passengers from an ill-fated South American cruise are anxious to disembark once they reach Florida, but Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state’s health care resources are already stretched too thin to take on another ship’s coronavirus caseload.
Louisville Metro Police are currently investigating after a shooting kills one juvenile and injures another in the Smoketown neighborhood Tuesday evening.
The budget focuses on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, but would make cuts to programs compared to the budget Governor Andy Beshear submitted earlier this year.
