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When Will COVID Pandemic End? History Shows Diseases Are Often Here to Stay

When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 39 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be wondering, with increasing exasperation, how long this will continue. Since the beginning of the pandemic, epidemiologists and public health specialists have been using mathematical models...

US Jobless Claims Rise to 898,000 With Layoffs Still High

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week by the most in two months, to 898,000, a historically high number and evidence that layoffs remain a hindrance to the economy’s recovery from the pandemic recession. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department coincides with other recent data that...

Clovis Unified High Schools Might Not Reopen for Classes Until January

Clovis Unified high schoolers should stay on distance learning for the remainder of the semester so as not to jeopardize their grade-point average — even if the district gets the OK to resume in-person instruction during the coronavirus pandemic. That advice from district employees to keep high schoolers on distance...

Barr Under Fire Over Comparison of Virus Lockdowns to Slavery

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr drew sharp condemnation Thursday for comparing lockdown orders during the coronavirus pandemic to slavery. In remarks Wednesday night at Hillsdale College in Michigan, Barr had called the lockdown orders the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history” since slavery. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., the No....

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