OAKLAND, California (AP) – Twitter says the hack that compromised the accounts of some of its highest-profile users was targeted at 130 people. Hackers were able to reset the passwords for 45 of those accounts. The San Francisco-based company said in a blog post on Saturday Up to eight of …
Read More »Workers become hobby detectives to track virus cases
NEW YORK (AP) – Jana Jumpp spends eight hours a day updating a spreadsheet, not for work, but for a recent hobby: discovering how many of Amazon’s 400,000 warehouse workers have become ill with the coronavirus. Amazon won’t give out a number, so Jumpp tracks it alone and shares what …
Read More »Dad fighting for life after getting coronavirus from 21-year-old son
A Florida father is now fighting for his life after contracting his son’s coronavirus, who ignored his parents’ advice to stay home and reunite with his friends. Plantation’s John Place has been admitted to the intensive care unit at Westside Regional Medical Center and was put on a ventilator for …
Read More »“We really need help”: Coronavirus overwhelms rural Oregon
SALEM, Oregon (AP) – Heather Griggs puts a phone to her ear in a makeshift office in the small courthouse that once served as a jail in rural Pendleton, a place best known for its annual rodeo. Her confident tone hides her tiredness when she tells the person on the …
Read More »Doctor who survived COVID-19 baffled by public contempt
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Dr. Michael Saag spends most of his time treating patients who are fighting for their lives and working with colleagues who are overwhelmed and exhausted by the relentless battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. But he enters a different world when he walks out the door of …
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