Health

New guidelines are from the State Liquor Authority on live entertainment at food establishments in New York, and it’s mostly bad news for restaurants and bars. In the latest update to its phase three and four dining guidelines, the state bureau now bans some restaurants from offering live music and …

“What Covid-19 is doing is actually shedding light on a problem that already existed,” said Dr. Lisa Cooper, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. Race affects who can flee from a viral hotspot to a second home and who a generation shares a roof with family members. …

The Trump administration has issued new manuals designating teachers as ‘critical infrastructure workers’, potentially removing the way to exempt them from quarantine requirements. Health officials in South Carolina also appointed critical infrastructure teachers, according to The Associated Press. The school board in Greene County in Eastern Tennessee meanwhile voted to …

“We also face another kind of virus that is equally cruel, and it in turn forces us to an account as a state and a nation – one that is built on ‘equality for all.’ I’m talking about cases of racism – sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle – that have led …

Wildfires are sweeping through California, forcing thousands out of their homes amid a heat wave and the coronavirus pandemic. One group of fires – the LNU Lightning Complex north of the Bay Area – grew rapidly last night, doubling in size to about 131,000 acres by Thursday, and burning through …