A full reopening of schools, colleges and universities this fall would pose the ‘highest risk’ for the spread of the coronavirus, according to an internal document from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The findings are significant in that they clash with President Trump’s stated desire to have schools and universities resume in-person instruction despite…
School buses sit idle in a Seattle bus yard. On July 2, Seattle Public Schools announced it is planning to resume some in-person learning in the new school year. Karen Ducey/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Karen Ducey/Getty Images School buses sit idle in a Seattle bus yard. On July 2, Seattle Public Schools announced…
UC Berkeley is warning that its fall reopening plans might be in jeopardy after university officials reported 47 new COVID-19 cases mostly linked to a series of frat parties. The new cases more than triple UC Berkeley’s running total of coronavirus cases: Before this week, the university had only reported 23 cases since the beginning…
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, most of the Bay Area was in sync with shelter-in-place and other health mandates. But as counties began reopening, they’ve taken divergent paths, especially smaller areas and those with fewer cases, which were able to reopen businesses earlier and more quickly. But a surge in cases statewide has led some counties…
Florida. South Carolina. Arizona. Nevada.In these and other states across America, the number of new COVID-19 cases is growing at an alarming rate, and there is no indication that the coronavirus that causes it will slow down anytime soon.Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey warned this week that hospitals in his state could hit surge capacity very…
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…