The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has expanded the number of states where a salmonella outbreak in onions has been detected. The outbreak is inked on onions by Thomson International, Inc., a California-based company. Contaminated onions have now been found in 43 states and 640 sick people, 85 of …
Read More »Trump fax official: “I would resign immediately” as political pressure
The chief scientist of the Trump administration’s attempt to develop a coronavirus vaccine said in a new interview that he would “immediately” resign if he was forced to expedite a vaccine properly for political reasons. “The data will dictate, the facts dictate,” said Moncef Slaoui, the administration’s chief scientist of …
Read More »Spanish and Black children for higher rates of COVID-19 hospital performance: CDC
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that Hispanic and Black children are at a disproportionate rate affected by the coronavirus pandemic, underlining how minority communities in the country are hardest hit by COVID-19 . The report, released Friday, uses pediatric data collected from …
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