In The News: School of Public Health

IFLScience

The more expensive a car is, the less likely the driver is to stop for a pedestrian who is crossing the road, at least in Las Vegas. The race and sex of the person trying to get across the road may also matter.

Business Insider

Each year, between 5% and 20% of Americans get the flu. Their cases range in severity from mild to life-threatening. Thankfully, there are preventive measures you can take to help protect you and your loved ones from the influenza virus, the most effective of which is the flu vaccine.

Greater Greater Washington

Drivers of more expensive cars are less likely to stop for people on foot trying to cross the street, a new study found. They also yielded less to men and African Americans, though that difference didn’t reach statistical significance.

In Daily

As coronavirus cases increase, the World Health Organisation warns the outbreak could become a pandemic. But does that refer to the disease’s spread, severity – or both? Epidemiologist and public health researcher Brian Labus explains.

Week

The increasing number of cases of coronavirus being diagnosed around the world has prompted fears that the outbreak will become a “pandemic”.

Vegas PBS

According to an NPR PBS NewsHour Marist poll, 66-percent of Americans believe the coronavirus is a real threat. But according to some local health officials, you should be more concerned about catching the flu. Every day health officials are teaming up with businesses and government agencies to prepare for the risk or spread of disease. We'll discuss how prepared the valley is for an outbreak.

MEAWW

It has been over two months since the coronavirus outbreak was first reported and a lot about the virus continues to remain a mystery.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The Southern Nevada Health District told a Henderson couple who returned home Sunday from an ill-fated Asian cruise that they are at “very low risk” to become ill with COVID-19 or to spread the coronavirus to others, despite that another passenger aboard the MS Westerdam has been diagnosed with the illness, according to the couple.

Nature

Coronavirus infections in China continue to swell by thousands a day, prompting epidemiologists to estimate when the outbreak will peak. Some suggest the climax, when the number of new infections in a single day reaches its highest point, will happen any time now. Others say that it is months away and that the virus will infect millions — or in one estimate hundreds of millions — of people first.

BroBible

The World Health Organization (WHO) released the latest statistics on the coronavirus on Tuesday. The update stated that that there are 42,708 diagnosed cases of coronavirus in China, and the death toll has risen to 1,017. While these figures are alarming, one health expert warns that the novel coronavirus has the frightening potential to infect 60 percent of the population.

KNPR News

Democrats are concerned with one thing and one thing only: Beating President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

KNPR News

Democrats are concerned with one thing and one thing only: Beating President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.