[aggregation-styles] Foreign Affairs Two competing epidemiological models currently guide and divide expert opinion on how best to respond to the novel coronavirus. The first, from Imperial College London, scared the U.S. and British governments into instituting strict social-distancing measures. It predicted that if left unchecked, COVID-19, the disease caused by...
University of Pittsburgh Reports Successful COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
[aggregation-styles] Meadville Tribune PITTSBURGH – Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine report initial success in animal trials for a vaccine to neutralize the virus that causes COVID-19. During tests in mice, the vaccine was shown to produce antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2, known as the novel coronavirus. University...
Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription Reporting on the White House’s herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should make all Americans, and particularly all New Yorkers, dizzy with terror. According to Sherman, when New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said that the state...
‘We Are All Flying Blind’: Virus Testing Logjam Not Abating in California
LOS ANGELES — California is ramping up testing for coronavirus even as a backlog of 59,000 pending tests is growing, delaying some people from getting results for up to 12 days and leaving an incomplete picture of how widespread the outbreak is in the state. Testing rolled out slowly in...
This Is Just the First in a Series of Cascading Crises
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Even as we are just beginning to confront the magnitude of the shock caused by the covid-19 pandemic, we need to wrap our minds around a painful truth. We are in the early stages of what is going to become a series of cascading crises,...
A Coronavirus Property Tax Delay? Californians Shouldn’t Count on It
The global pandemic notwithstanding, most California owners are still on the hook to pay their property taxes next week — thus far, the state isn’t granting any reprieves. Though both federal and state lawmakers postponed the deadline for income taxes through July 15, the statewide due date for homeowners and commercial real...
Democrats Delay Nominating Convention Amid Virus Concerns
Democrats announced Thursday that they were postponing their presidential nominating convention until August, an unprecedented move that shows how the coronavirus is reshaping the battle for the White House. The party had hoped that a mid-July convention would give them more time to rally behind a nominee and unify against President Donald...
Fresno ‘Makers’ Have Joined the Battle Against the COVID-19 Virus
An innovative “maker space” in downtown Fresno is joining the fight against COVID-19. Members of The Pi Shop, a product incubator for local entrepreneurs, developed a high-quality face shield for medical personnel on the front lines of the battle. Now, they’re able to make hundreds of them a day to...
Despite Income Losses from Crisis, Most Not Worried About Their Finances.
WASHINGTON — About half of all working Americans report some kind of income loss affecting themselves or a member of their household due to the coronavirus pandemic, with low-income Americans and those without college degrees especially likely to have lost a job, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC...
Nursing Home Infections, Deaths Surge Amid Lockdown Measures
Nursing homes across the country have been in lockdown for weeks under federal orders to protect their frail, elderly residents from coronavirus, but a wave of deadly outbreaks nearly every day since suggests that the measures including a ban on visits and daily health screenings of staffers either came too...