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Rana Zoe Mungin lost her battle with COVID-19 after a month-long fight.April 29, 2020, 12:39 AM7 min read A beloved 30-year-old middle school social studies teacher from Brooklyn has died of COVID-19 following a month-long battle, after twice being turned away for testing before eventually being diagnosed with the virus. Rana Zoe Mungin, who had…
Look, we get it: Sheltering in place is a tremendous burden. If you’re lucky, you’re going stir crazy. The less fortunate have lost work or are struggling with mental illness. But governments do not take this strategy lightly: The best way to keep hospitals from getting overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients is to maintain social distancing.…
Image: Test site staff, left to right: Phlebotomist Justina Hrabie, Administrator Jacquelyn Albright and Certified Nursing Assistant Gabriela Perez. Photo: Joint Information Center.A COVID-19 community testing site is bringing a dramatic increase in testing capability to Humboldt County.The new site is the first in the state to provide increased testing to California residents. The site…
9:02 PM Trump invokes Defense Production Act to keep meat processing plants open President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday invoking the Defense Production Act to keep meat processing plants open, a senior White House official told CBS News. Plants owned by some of the country's largest food companies have struggled with outbreaks…
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…