The NHL is trying to make this seem easy. This is the opposite. This is nothing less than a historic company, something we have never seen before and hope never to see again. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, which paused the season on March 12 and has disrupted society around the …
Read More »New CDC Guidelines Emphasize Reopening of Schools in Fall
The latest guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention greatly emphasize sending students back to school this fall, despite what the CDC described as “mixed evidence on whether returning to school gives as increased transmission or outbreaks “of COVID-19. The new guidelines arrived the same day as the …
Read More »Maine reports 20 new cases of COVID-19, no new deaths
On Monday, two young women walk down Portland’s Exchange Street, which has been blocked from vehicle traffic. Ben McCanna / Staff Photographer Maine reported 20 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday and there were no new deaths, as an investigation continues into an outbreak at a Lewiston nursing home. Eleven …
Read More »Disney tightens health and safety restrictions in California and Florida parks
DEAL 8:44 AM PDT 7/24/2020 by Ryan Parker In related news, Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort announced on Friday that the long Halloween Horror Nights would be canceled this year. Disney has tightened health and safety restrictions at Walt Disney World in Florida and Downtown Disney in California. …
Read More »Smallpox: Various strains spread in the Viking Age, new study reveals
A study of DNA sampled from skeletons from the Viking Age found the presence of smallpox in 11 individuals living in northern Europe, which is now Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia, and the United Kingdom, between 600 and 1050 AD. “The 1,400-year-old genetic information extracted from these skeletons is enormously important …
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