The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised offices to set up physical barriers between employees, post signs ensuring people are 6 feet apart, and clean common areas in new guidance for reopening from pandemic shutdowns. The guidelines outline how to check if a building is ready to be opened, where employees are most likely…
The high cost and short supply of PPE are several factors potentially contributing to new dentist surcharges. The next time you go to the dentist, you could be paying more up front in fees for personal protective equipment (PPE). Several KING 5 viewers said they been charged recently with fees ranging from a one-time $10…
Beginning Monday, dentists can begin resuming "routine oral and dental care" under new guidance from the Illinois Department of Public Health. "IDPH has carefully monitored the daily number of newly reported COVID-19 cases. If the trend continues as anticipated, certain models indicate there will likely be a decrease in the burden of COVID-19 illness in…
As businesses contemplate the return of workers to their desks, many are considering large and small changes to the modern workplace culture and trappings.The offices of Infection Prevention at the University of California, Irvine, has translucent protective barriers between desks and now requires employees to wear masks.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York TimesMay 4, 2020Updated…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…