Getty Getty Despite what you may have read, there’s not a $2,000 a month stimulus check. Here’s what you need to know. $2,000 A Month Stimulus Checks? The CARES Act - which is the $2 trillion stimulus package to help Americans in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic - is a one-time check for as…
After a 39-year-old federal prison employee died and later tested positive for the new coronavirus, employees are speaking up about what they said are unsafe conditions at the facility where she worked. The Bureau of Prisons on Friday confirmed its first staff death potentially due to COVID-19. Robin Grubbs, a caseworker at the United States Penitentiary…
Calvillo Moncada has hourlong phone appointments with five to seven clients each day, which she fits between home-school help for her two children, ages 10 and 16.“Oh my goodness, this is overwhelming and stressful, but doable and hopeful,” Moncada said. Our high-risk areaSanta Rosa infectious disease specialist Dr. Gary Green described the potential for an…
First came reports of a deadly virus spreading quickly in China, then evacuation flights and two-week quarantines on a military base in Fairfield, then an outbreak on a cruise ship that had departed from San Francisco and, by late February, a small but growing number of cases of coronavirus in the Bay Area. Within weeks,…
A color-coded map from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation shows which states are projected to reach thresholds for easing social distancing restrictions at various times. Click on the map for a larger version. (IHME Graphic) The University of Washington epidemiologists who set up a widely watched model projecting the future…
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…