NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Individuals fully inoculated against Covid-19 can meet in small groups with other vaccinated people without wearing masks, but should keep wearing them outside the home, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday (March 8). CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said during a briefing that the agency’s new […]
How do we come to terms with what we’ve lost? How do we make sense of what comes next? By The New York Times In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic. Since then, the coronavirus has claimed more than 2.5 million lives globally, including more than 500,000 people in the […]
Juan Escobar was 12 and skinny when he first went to a Y.M.C.A. summer camp. He weighed only 65 pounds, often didn’t get enough to eat and had chronic asthma. For much of his childhood, he lived with his mother and grandmother in a public-housing complex in the South Bronx, where, he said, he was […]
MINNEAPOLIS — Late last year, a 14-page questionnaire began to arrive in mailboxes across Minneapolis and its suburbs. It asked if the recipient had watched the video of George Floyd dying under a police officer’s knee. What about the protests against police brutality, it wanted to know — did you go? How do you feel […]
The coronavirus has spread into the most remote villages, a reminder of earlier pandemics that ravaged the state. Now there is a rush to deliver vaccines in time. Credit… Supported by By Mike Baker and Serge F. Kovaleski Photographs by Ash Adams BIRCH CREEK, Alaska — As the turboprop plane rumbled to a halt at […]
It was a tradition that went back years at Shallowater High School in northwest Texas. For one day, the senior boys dressed in suits and ties and the girls put on frocks and heels. The boys addressed the girls as “milady,” held doors open for them and helped them to their seats in class or […]
When a healthy 41-year-old died a year ago, an autopsy blamed heart disease. But his family wants to know if the coronavirus was lurking before anyone realized it. Patrick Hidalgo, photographed in 2009 while he was studying at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Hidalgo died on March 2, 2020, after telling […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Several states have continued steadily lifting restrictions, despite warnings from top federal health officials like Dr Anthony Fauci that new coronavirus cases in the United States have plateaued at a very high level after their drastic drop has stalled and that the country urgently needed to contain the spread of more transmissible […]
The shortage of lifesaving medical equipment last year was a searing example of the government’s failed coronavirus response. As health workers resorted to wearing trash bags, one Maryland company profited by selling anthrax vaccines to the country’s emergency reserve. By Chris Hamby and Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON — A year ago, President Donald J. Trump […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The Senate on Saturday (March 6) passed President Joe Biden’s US$1.9 trillion (S$2.5 trillion) Covid-19 relief plan in a party-line vote after an all-night session that saw Democrats battling among themselves over jobless aid and the Republican minority failing in attempts to push through some three dozen amendments. The final Bill includes […]