Carla K. Johnson

“If this thing boomerangs”: Second wave of coronavirus infections feared

May 6, 2020 at 2:26 p.m.

As Europe and the U.S. loosen their lockdowns against the coronavirus, health experts are expressing growing dread over what they say is an all-but-certain second wave of deaths and infections...

Coronavirus death toll increases to 9 in Washington state

March 3, 2020 at 4:36 p.m.

SEATTLE 鈥� Tensions over how to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus intensified Tuesday in the United States as the death toll climbed to seven and lawmakers expressed doubts about the government's...

Authorities announce 2nd coronavirus death in U.S.

March 1, 2020 at 10:31 p.m.

Health officials in Washington state said Sunday night that a second person had died from the coronavirus 鈥� a man in his 70s from a nursing facility near Seattle where...

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No longer a matter of if coronavirus will spread in the U.S., but when, CDC says

February 25, 2020 at 1:40 p.m.

China's massive travel restrictions, house-to-house checks, huge isolation wards and lockdowns of entire cities bought the world valuable time to prepare for the global spread of the new virus.

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First case of mysterious Chinese illness confirmed in U.S.

March 2, 2020 at 1:35 p.m.

A U.S. resident who recently returned from a trip to central China has been diagnosed with the new virus that has sparked an outbreak and stringent monitoring around the world,...

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Mental illness not main driver of mass shootings, experts say

August 5, 2019 at 4:47 p.m.

President Donald Trump's focus on "mentally ill monsters" oversimplifies the role of mental illness in public mass shootings and downplays the ease with which Americans can get firearms, experts said.

Medical pot laws no answer for U.S. opioid deaths, study says

June 10, 2019 at 7:54 p.m.

A new study shoots down the notion that medical marijuana laws can prevent opioid overdose deaths, challenging a favorite talking point of legal pot advocates.

Would overturning abortion rights turn back clock to 1973?

May 26, 2019 at 10:21 a.m.

What would happen if Roe v. Wade, the ruling establishing abortion rights nationwide, were overturned? Although far from a certainty, even with increased conservative clout on the Supreme Court, a...

U.S. birth rate continues to fall, leading to fewest babies in 32 years

May 15, 2019 at 6:28 a.m.

America's baby bust isn't over. The nation's birth rates last year reached record lows for women in their teens and 20s, a government report shows, leading to the fewest babies...

States seek explicit patient consent for pelvic exams

May 12, 2019 at 5:23 p.m.

Savanah Harshbarger estimates she performed as many as 10 pelvic exams last year on patients before gynecologic surgeries, feeling for fibroid tumors or other abnormalities.

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