The plan to reopen Illinois — from restaurants and salons to open space to non-COVID-19 procedures at the hospital to concerts and festivals — depends on a host of metrics laid out by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. The metrics focus on a rolling average of positive coronavirus cases and hospitalizations to keep track of the direction…
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Guidance for reopening houses of worship amid the coronavirus pandemic has been put on hold after a battle between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the White House, which was resistant to putting limits on religious institutions, according to administration officials.The CDC this week issued a detailed road map for reopening schools, child-care…
Governors face intensifying pressure to reopen their economies, but experts warn it could mean thousands of new deaths.A family dined outside in West Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday. The state was among the last to take the plunge toward reopening.Credit...Jessica Hill for The New York TimesMay 20, 2020In Connecticut, flags that had been lowered during the…
Creighton University President Daniel Hendrickson discusses the steps the school is taking to keep students and faculty safe, including adjusting its fall se...
Santa Clara County, Northern California’s most populous county, will join the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area in moving into Phase 2 of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reopening plan, allowing for curbside pickup at many retail stores.Health officers in the Bay Area said they have seen a number of positive signs since the last loosening…
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…