How risky is it to fly during the coronavirus pandemic? Flying can increase your risk of exposure to the infection, but airlines are taking some precautions, and you can too. Air travel means spending time at security lines and airport terminals, putting you in close contact with other people. As …
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 »Family of Latino youths shot dead by sheriff’s deputy wants autopsy report to be released
It has been 13 days since the last time Elisa Guardado saw her son alive. “He said he would go home and eat some golden tacos, but he never came home. My family and my community feel destroyed because we still don’t know anything. We don’t know what happened to …
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 »How A fans can catch balls at home
The unthinkable is about to become the reality of Major League Baseball. On July 23, the 2020 regular season will open with no fans at the stadium. No team had remotely considered this possibility until the coronavirus forced commissioner Rob Manfred to suspend the season on March 12. But now …
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