A child care center in Lake Oswego, Oregon is the first child care center in Oregon to experience a publicly reported outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, with eight children and 12 teachers testing positive. KinderCare in the Lake Grove neighborhood of Lake Oswego told parents in an email of the …
Read More »Bernie Sanders criticizes American Airlines for selling intermediate seats
Senator Bernie Sanders criticized American Airlines on Tuesday for selling intermediate seats on flights, effectively abandoning the premise of social distancing on planes during the pandemic. During a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, Sanders criticized the airline and asked the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and …
Read More »A new coronavirus mutation affects the spike protein that invades human cells.
Egon Ozer, an infectious disease specialist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, recently told The Washington Post that he noticed a mutation in the coronavirus samples he studied in Chicago. Although initially genetically identical to those that entered the United States from China, in May he discovered that 95 …
Read More »Hawaii Registers 18 New Coronavirus Cases As State Total Increases To 917
Hawaii saw 18 new cases of coronavirus today, as the total number of infections statewide since the start of the outbreak increased to 917, officials from the state Department of Health said in their daily noon count. Today’s new cases include 15 on Oahu, one on Kauai and Maui, and …
Read More »MTA will start charging for buses again, with the installation of new barriers for bus drivers
One of the few positives during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City has been free buses. For months, the MTA suspended fare collection and blocked the front of buses to protect drivers from the (potentially) public transporting coronavirus. As the worst public health crisis wears off, the agency said …
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