SAG-AFTRA’s health plan announced changes that would increase premiums for members and limit eligibility rules. The changes are, according to a memo sent to union members Wednesday night, in response to projected deficits in the tens of millions of dollars for 2020 and 2021. “Without restructuring the health plan, we …
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Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the last three decades and an expert on pandemics for the last four decades, has been optimistic about a vaccine arriving in late 2020 as early as 2021, but he has also warned the public about their …
Read More »New Zealand sees cargo contamination as a possible COVID-19 cluster source
In the closely-watched development of pandemic developments, New Zealand today dispelled suspicions that surface contamination may have resulted in a new cluster of COVID-19, and Chinese media reported a reinfection in a woman who became ill 6 months ago used to be. The worldwide total of COVID-19 climbs today to …
Read More »Directors ‘Boys State’ on the ‘unexpected’ power of their award-winning documentary
In the summer of 2017, husband and wife documentary filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine read a news story that caught their attention. They learned that lawmakers in Texas voted to resign from the union – only the lawmakers, in this case, were teenage boys who participated in a comprehensive …
Read More »Brazilian chicken wings test positive for coronavirus in China
Frozen chicken imports imported from Brazil test positive for the new coronavirus in China, authorities announced Thursday. COVID-19 was discovered on a surface sample taken from a batch of chicken wings during screening of imported frozen food in Shenzhen’s Longgang district, the city council said in a statement obtained by …
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