Tag: COVID-19

Kamala Harris’s team dodges answers on school reopenings

Mica Soellner · February 17, 2021 6:19 pm

Los Angeles County health officials agree to open schools for children ages K-6

Washington Examiner · February 17, 2021 6:00 pm

While CMS has made progress on fighting "pay and chase," the agency relies "too heavily on investigating claims after the payments have been made rather than preventing them in the first place," the letter to acting CMS administrator Andy Slavitt reads. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House coronavirus adviser struggles to explain similar virus numbers despite differing lockdown approaches

Michael Lee · February 17, 2021 5:34 pm

Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

UK coronavirus variant may have been spreading sooner in the US than previously thought: CDC study

David Hogberg · February 17, 2021 4:51 pm

Beltway Confidential

West Virginia is No. 1, and this time it’s for something good

Nickie Deahl · February 17, 2021 4:45 pm

In this Oct. 18, 2010 photo, an Amazon.com package awaits delivery from UPS in Palo Alto, Calif.

New York sues Amazon over pandemic working conditions

Nicholas Rowan · February 17, 2021 4:16 pm

Maine to expand COVID-19 testing in schools

Washington Examiner · February 17, 2021 4:00 pm

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Calif., speaks to the media at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 2, 2019.

McCarthy-led group of California lawmakers send letter to Newsom demanding answers for ‘failures’ of state vaccine rollout

Michael Lee · February 17, 2021 3:56 pm

The Palace of Westminster is reflected in the river Thames opposite St Thomas' Hospital in central London.

UK to begin first human challenge study on coronavirus

David Hogberg · February 17, 2021 3:19 pm

Harris parrots Biden, but not CDC, on teacher vaccinations: ‘They should be a priority’

Naomi Lim · February 17, 2021 3:08 pm

Republican state officials want to make sure 2020 voting changes are temporary

Emily Brooks · February 17, 2021 2:54 pm

Beltway Confidential

Taylor Lorenz panics over Clubhouse’s ‘unfettered conversations,’ exposing antisocial pandemic pathologizing

Tiana Lowe Doescher · February 17, 2021 2:34 pm