Tag: COVID-19

A patient wears a protective face mask as she is loaded into an ambulance at The Brooklyn Hospital Center emergency room, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in New York. Anticipating a spike in coronavirus patients, New York City-area hospitals are clearing out beds, setting up new spaces to triage patients and urging people with mild symptoms to consult health professionals by phone or video chat instead of flooding emergency rooms that could be overrun.

Neighborhoods with more essential workers at higher risk of COVID-19 infections and death: Study

David Hogberg · February 18, 2021 11:13 pm

In this Tuesday, July 16, 2019 photo people walk along a sidewalk on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass.

Ivy League announces cancellation of spring sports season because of COVID-19

Zach Halaschak · February 18, 2021 10:59 pm

Known as The Lighted Cross Church, Excelsior Lutheran Church near Wilson, Kan., is dark, Friday, April 10, 2020.

House Democrats criticize Supreme Court’s religious freedom pandemic decisions

Nicholas Rowan · February 18, 2021 10:20 pm

A healthcare worker applies the second dose of China's Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine during a priority vaccination program for the elderly at Bezerra de Menezes Asylum in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.

Biden to announce $4B for global coronavirus vaccine effort during G-7 call

Rob Crilly · February 18, 2021 10:00 pm

Masked students work on computers at Tibbals Elementary School in Murphy, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Texas Gov. Greg Abbot's statewide mask order does not mandate face covering for children under the age of 10, allowing some school districts to not require masks for children leaving the choice of mask use up to the parents.

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California school board shows parents how little it cares about them

Kaylee McGhee White · February 18, 2021 9:36 pm

Bill Gates, chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, attends the "Africa Leadership Meeting - Investing in Health Outcomes" held at a hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019.

Bill Gates: from computer programmer to know-it-all

Joseph Simonson · February 18, 2021 9:08 pm

This Sept. 6, 2011 photo, shows a Smithfield ham at a grocery store in Richardson, Texas. Smithfield Foods Inc.'s fiscal first-quarter net income rose 8 percent, as the world's biggest hog producer charged higher prices and sold more packaged meats. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

FDA: Coronavirus not spread via food or food packaging

David Hogberg · February 18, 2021 8:14 pm

Wheaton College of Illinois. (Christoffer Lukas MÃ¼ller / Wikimedia Commons)

Faculty at Illinois colleges lobby for COVID-19 vaccinations before fall

Washington Examiner · February 18, 2021 8:00 pm

White House steps on immigration reform plan by calling coronavirus bill its ‘sole priority’

Naomi Lim · February 18, 2021 7:25 pm

US marshals arrest two Florida men accused of impersonating US marshals to skirt mask mandate

Zach Halaschak · February 18, 2021 6:54 pm

School board members recorded swearing and suggesting that parents want children in class so they can smoke marijuana

Emma Colton · February 18, 2021 6:34 pm

Biden allies to launch ‘dark money’ group with White House blessing

Katherine Doyle · February 18, 2021 5:55 pm