Fresno Unified school buses haven't transported kids since schools closed on March 13 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but some of them are going back on the street with a new purpose sometime soon. The district plans to park a couple of Wi-Fi-equipped school buses in a shady area near...
10 New Deaths Mark Highest Single-Day COVID-19 Toll in Tulare County
Health officials reported 10 new deaths from COVID-19 in Tulare County on Friday — the region's largest single-day jump since the pandemic began. The county's death toll has risen to 64, the highest in the central San Joaquin Valley. "The majority of today's reported deaths are attributed to the various...
Sailors on Carrier With Lemoore Crews Get Virus for Second Time
Five sailors have tested positive for COVID-19 a second time after returning to the sidelined aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, the Navy said Thursday. Two F/A-18 fighter squadrons with nearly 800 personnel from NAS Lemoore are deployed onboard the Roosevelt, which is docked in Guam as crew members recover. The...
Experts Have Jobs. They Need to Understand Those Who Don’t.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription If anyone thought a global pandemic that has so far killed more than 80,000 Americans would override the country’s deep partisan divide, think again. It turns out that Democrats are significantly more likely than Republicans to believe that the pandemic is serious and to follow...
If 80% of People Wear a Mask in Public, COVID-19 Spread Ends
I’m a data scientist at the University of San Francisco and teach courses online in machine learning for fast.ai. In late March, I decided to use public mask-wearing as a case study to show my students how to combine and analyze diverse types of data and evidence. Much to my...
Maryland Restaurant Owner Can’t Get Employees to Return Because They Make More in Unemployment
[aggregation-styles] Newsweek A restaurant owner said Tuesday that she can't get employees to return to work because they make more in unemployment benefits than in working for her business. Melony Wagner, who owns Charles Village Pub in Towson, said her employees would prefer to continue collecting unemployment than come to...
San Diego’s Sorrento Therapeutics Says Antibody Might Have Ability to Fight COVID-19
[aggregation-styles] The San Diego Union-Tribune Sorrento Therapeutics of San Diego said Friday that an antibody it has been developing proved highly effective in blocking the novel coronavirus in laboratory experiments — a possible first step in the creation of a drug cocktail to battle COVID-19. The antibody, known as STI-1499,...
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Could End
[aggregation-styles] Scientific American We know how the COVID-19 pandemic began: Bats near Wuhan, China, hold a mix of coronavirus strains, and sometime last fall one of the strains, opportunistic enough to cross species lines, left its host or hosts and ended up in a person. Then it was on the...
Trump Says He’ll Replenish Stockpile for Future Pandemics
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — President Donald Trump says he intends to prepare for future pandemics by replenishing the national stockpile and bringing manufacturing of critical supplies and equipment back to the U.S. His comments came the same day a whistleblower told Congress the Trump administration had failed to properly prepare for...
US Retail Sales Plunged a Record 16% in April as Virus Hit
BALTIMORE — U.S. retail sales tumbled by a record 16.4% from March to April as business shutdowns caused by the coronavirus kept shoppers away, threatened the viability of stores across the country and further weighed down a sinking economy. The Commerce Department’s report Friday on retail purchases showed a sector...