Abstract We collect a time-series database of business and related restrictions for every county in the United States from March through December 2020. find strong evidence consistent with idea that employee mask policies, mandates general population, restaurant bar closures, gym high-risk closures reduce future fatality growth. Other restrictions, such as second-round low- to medium-risk busin...

Abstract Tornadoes account for the third highest average annual weather-related fatality rate in United States. Here, tornado fatalities are examined as rates within context of multiple physical and social factors using tornado-level information including population housing units killer damage paths. Fatality further evaluated across annual, monthly, diurnal categories well between locations ag...

Damaging Hydrogeological Events (DHE) are defined as rainy periods during which landslides and floods can damage people. The paper investigated the effects of DHE on people living in Calabria (southern Italy) in the period 2000– 2014, using data coming from the systematic survey of regional newspapers. Data about “fatalities”, people “injured” and people “involved” (not killed neither hurt) wer...

The new designer drug 5-(2-aminopropyl)indole (5-IT) is an indole derivative with stimulant properties. Its synthesis was first described by Albert Hofmann and Franz Troxler in 1962. We report four deaths associated with 5-IT and a validated high-performance liquid chromatography method for quantitation of the drug. In all four deaths, an autopsy was performed, and femoral venous blood, heart b...

As general pathologists in Malaysia are required to perform medico-legal autopsies, this paper is written with the hope that it may serve as a guide to the less initiated. An account of elementary ballistics is included because it is essential for understanding the features of wounds produced by firearms. A complete autopsy examination including a systematic approach to the injuries is advocate...

A review of autopsy reports in cases of electrocution in Northern Ireland revealed that there were 50 accidental electrocutions and 9 suicidal electrocutions over a 22 year period (1982 - 2003). No cases of homicidal electrocution were detected in this jurisdiction. Analysis of the cohort of accidental electrocutions showed that there was a clear skew towards young and middle-aged male adults w...