Monthly Archives: August 2020

San Quentin COVID-19 disaster shows ‘challenge of herd immunity’

For critics of aggressive stay-at-home orders, the solution seems clear: the economy will reopen and enough people will eventually be infected by the new coronavirus to achieve ‘herd immunity’, even before a vaccine is available. The idea is that eventually a sufficient percentage of the COVID-19 population will have survived …

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Video: Police try to cuff young boy at school in Florida

Civil rights lawyers are suing police and school district in Key West over their arrest of a screaming 8-year-old boy who allegedly hit a teacher 11 August 2020, 17:59 hours 4 min reading Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail this article KEY WEST, Fla. Civil rights lawyers on Tuesday put the …

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Dangerous chemicals remain in the port of Beirut

BEIRUT (AP) – Chemical experts and firefighters are working to secure at least 20 potentially hazardous chemical containers at the explosion-ravaged port of Beirut, after finding one that was leaking, according to a member of a French cleaning team. Some of the containers were punctured when last week’s deadly explosion …

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