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According to police reports, when officers first arrived at a large house in village of Royal Palm Beach on May 22 and knocked on the door, they were met by a drunken, belligerent man who claimed to be of legal age. Inside the house, the reports state, officers could see some 10 teens drinking. After backup arrived and the man who answered the door was arrested, officers allowed the 40 to 50 teenagers who had been in the backyard — “consuming what appeared to be alcoholic beverages and yelling at each other”— to leave.

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Autopsies on people who died of the coronavirus are helping doctors understand how the disease affects the body -- and one of the most remarkable findings concerned blood clotting, a pathologist says. Dr. Amy Rapkiewicz, the chairman of the department of pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, spoke to Erin Burnett on OutFront Thursday night. Some Covid-19 patients are known to develop blood clotting issues, but the degree and the extent to which that occurs was described as "dramatic" by Rapkiewicz. In the early stages of the pandemic, bedside clinicians noticed a lot of blood clotting "in lines and various large vessels," she said. "What we saw at autopsy was sort of an extension of that," she said. "The clotting was not only in the large vessels but also in the smaller vessels. "And ...

*NOTE: Daily lab data on the DHHS Dashboard and SNHD reports is updated every morning for the previous day. LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The state has 1,004 new cases of COVID-19, setting a new single-day record. According to data released by the state and county, 827 of those cases are in Clark County. The state is also reporting the number of patients in ICU units has reached a record 248, the highest since the start of the pandemic. (NOTE: DHHS reported a higher number of single-day cases on June 26 but later revised that data due to a delay in reporting.) The state has reported its five largest single-day increases for COVID-19 case in the past two weeks. There are now 25,908 confirmed cases and 579 deaths in Nevada. Top 5 Number of COVID-19 cases Date reported ...

But he warned that there’s a limit to what Houston hospitals can do to respond to the crisis. “We are adding more capacity, but we are absolutely stretched now, and if it keeps going this way, we’re going to run out of room. We’re going to look like New York,” McCarthy said, emphasizing the need for Houston residents to stay home and avoid crowds to slow the virus’s spread. One of Houston’s largest hospital systems, HCA Healthcare, also has been caring for dozens of COVID-19 patients in its emergency departments. In a statement, HCA spokeswoman Debra Burbridge said hospital officials have taken steps to reduce the impact on patients, including sending staff members who would normally be performing or assisting with elective surgeries — which have been suspended under an order by the gove...