Tag: Coronavirus
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TRUMP SIGNS RELIEF BILL
President Donald Trump has signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package that will deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals. The fate of an end-of-year COVID-19 relief and spending bill remained in doubt Sunday as millions lost unemployment aid, the government barreled toward a mid-pandemic shutdown and lawmakers implored President Donald Trump to act. Trump…
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HOW STATES PLAN TO GET VACCINES TO POOR COMMUNITIES
Governors, public health officials and experts in health disparities are confronting these issues, sometimes called social determinants of health, as they finalize their vaccine rollout plans for both rural and urban underserved areas. President-elect Joe Biden, who has already appointed a coronavirus adviser to focus specifically on race and health, has promised a more cohesive…
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POPE CALLS ON NATIONS TO SHARE VACCINES
Pope Francis in his Christmas message on Friday said political and business leaders must not allow market forces and patent laws to take priority over making Covid 19 vaccines available to all, condemning nationalism and “the virus of radical individualism”. In a sign of the times, Francis delivered his traditional “Urbi et Orbi” (to the…
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PFIZER TO SUPPLY US WITH ADDITIONAL 100M DOSES OF VACCINE
Pfizer said Wednesday it will supply the U.S. government with an additional 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine under a new agreement between the pharmaceutical giant and the Trump administration. Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said that will bring their total current commitment to 200 million doses for the U.S. That should be…
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U.S. RECORDS 84,000 NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS
Sixteen states had record one-day increases in new cases on Friday and 11 reported a record number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The United States has reported over the past week an average of 60,000 new cases per day, the highest seven-day average since early August. Western states including Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming have reported…
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TEACHERS UNION PRESIDENT CASTS DOUBT ON SCHOOLS REOPENING FULL-TIME
Randi Weingarten, president of the prominent American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union, said there’s “no way” schools will reopen full-time in the fall, citing lack of funding. “There’s no way that you’re going to have full-time schools for all the kids and all the teachers the way we used to have it,” Weingarten said Sunday…
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NYC ENTERS PHASE THREE OF REOPENING
No city is more important to America’s economy than New York, and none has been hit harder by the coronavirus. “NYC Reopens” examines life in the capital of capitalism as the city takes its first halting steps toward a new normal. As other parts of the U.S. hastily roll back reopening plans, New York City…
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THE PANIC OVER REOPENING SCHOOLS
The CDC issued additional guidance this week on safely reopening schools, with infections spiking in the South and West. Some education leaders fear the guidelines are being disregarded, casting doubt anew on how the new school year will even be able to launch. In Texas, the governor is now requiring face masks in public spaces…
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WHITE HOUSE QUIET AS OUTBREAK SPIKES
The coronavirus is still killing as many as 1,000 Americans per day — but the Trump administration isn’t saying much about it. It’s been more than a month since the White House halted its daily coronavirus task force briefings. Top officials like infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci have largely disappeared from national television — with…
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CORONAVIRUS HOSPITALIZATION RISE
As the number of new coronavirus cases continues to increase worldwide, and more than a dozen states and Puerto Rico are recording their highest averages of new cases since the pandemic began, hospitalizations in at least nine states have been on the rise since Memorial Day. In Texas, North and South Carolina, California, Oregon, Arkansas, Mississippi, Utah…
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CORONAVIRUS SPIKE IN LA
According to an analysis shared with ABC News by Curative, an FDA-authorized testing company responsible for a majority of COVID-19 tests in Los Angeles County, coronavirus cases in Los Angeles could be increasing in the wake of Memorial Day gatherings and the early wave of protests over the killing of George Floyd. As of May 31, the portion…
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COVID-19’S ECONOMIC FALLOUT
The economic impact of coronavirus is hitting Black communities disproportionately hard. The Black unemployment rate was 16.7% in April, compared with 14.2% for white workers. Expect those numbers to get worse on Friday morning, when the Department of Labor will release its data for May. Overall, the jobless rate is expected to hit a new…
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MASS GATHERINGS, EROSION OF TRUST UPEND CORONAVIRUS CONTROL
Protests erupting across the nation over the past week — and law enforcement’s response to them — are threatening to upend efforts by health officials to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway. Health experts need newly infected people to remember and recount everyone they’ve interacted with over several days…
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GOOGLE, MOREHOUSE TEAM TO STUDY COVID-19 RACE ISSUES
Google announced Thursday it’s providing a $1 million grant to Morehouse School of Medicine’s Satcher Health Leadership Institute to collect and analyze data to explore why communities of color have had higher diagnoses of COVID-19. A team of Google engineers and data scientists will work full-time over the next six months to support the project. As of Thursday…
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