Monthly Archives: July, 2020

At least 20 lifeguards on Long Beach Island (LBI), N.J., tested positive for the coronavirus after attending a party together, according to health officials. Jonathan Oldham, the mayor of LBI township Harvey Cedars, said the borough clerk was informed of the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday by the LBI Health Department's director, according to NJ.com. "I just heard that they…

Oregon has now reported 16,492 total cases and 286 deaths. The Oregon Health Authority reported 408 new confirmed and presumptive coronavirus cases Saturday.Four deaths were also reported Saturday following a record nine deaths reported Friday.This is less than the record 437 cases announced July 16.Where the new cases are by county: Baker (2), Benton (1),…

(Newser) – Those Vikings just keep making history. Not only did they settle North America and have female warriors, they apparently suffered from an early kind of smallpox—the disease the killed off hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century, the New York Times reports. The now-extinct strain turned up in the teeth of…

As the novel coronavirus pandemic reshapes lives and entire economies, historians tell us this is not the first time. The earliest written records of tiny infectious organisms overhauling human societies stretch back as far as the Plague of Justinian in A.D. 541, which is thought to have killed up to 50 million people, or even…

“I recognize that this segment does need to be reworked to provide better context, and as such we are delaying the airing of the episode for one week,” Bolling said in a statement posted to his Twitter feed on Saturday afternoon. Fauci recently has talked about becoming the target of death threats over his public…