WASHINGTON (AP) – US labs are undergoing a plethora of coronavirus tests, creating processing delays that experts say are undermining the response to the pandemic. With the US infection count of 3.9 million on Wednesday and new cases on the rise, bottlenecks are creating problems for workers who are out …
Read More »US labs bend amid augmentation tests; global virus cases exceed 15 million
WASHINGTON (AP) – US labs are undergoing a plethora of coronavirus tests, creating processing delays that experts say are undermining the response to the pandemic. With the US infection count of 3.9 million on Wednesday and new cases on the rise, bottlenecks are creating problems for workers who are out …
Read More »Major League Baseball Players Take Visible Stance on Social Justice
PHOENIX (AP) – Major League Baseball has not always been at the forefront of the social justice movement in recent years, with leagues like the NBA and NFL generally at the center. But in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, and due to the quirks of a coronavirus-altered …
Read More »Alex Trebek hopes to mark 2 years of cancer survival in 2021
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Alex Trebek says he is responding exceptionally well to pancreatic cancer treatment and hopes to mark his two-year survival next February. Your doctor has said you have that milestone, the “Danger!” The host said, “So I hope I’m close because he said I’ll be close.” And …
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 …
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