By Jakob Rodgers, Kaiser Health News Melody Lewis lives as a nomad in the heart of downtown Denver. Sticking her head out of her green tent on a recent day in June, the 57-year-old pointed to a few blocks from where city crews picked up her mid-sidewalk tent earlier this …
Read More »Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom explains the new coronavirus tracker
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told CNBC on Monday that the coronavirus tracking website he helped build shows troubling levels of spread in many U.S. states. Epidemiologists use something called R0, or R nothing, as a way to measure how a virus is spreading. For example, an R value of 1 …
Read More »WHO warns that coronavirus pandemic is accelerating as countries ease blocking rules
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, attends a press conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 28, 2020. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating worldwide as many countries that reopened their economies see a resurgence …
Read More »Experts See No Evidence of Increased Child Abuse Amid Pandemic
NEW YORK (AP) – When the coronavirus pandemic took over the United States in mid-March, forcing schools to close and many children to be locked up in homes affected by job loss and other forms of stress, many experts on Child welfare warned of a likely increase in child abuse. …
Read More »Ann & Hope closes all outlet stores
06/29/2020 CUMBERLAND – After saying two weeks ago that they had no plans to close their remaining curtain and bath shops, representatives from Cumberland-based Ann & Hope now plan to close all of the remaining eight outlets. The Breeze has confirmed the plan, which is revealed to employees this morning. …
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