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Dr Anthony Fauci, President Donald Trump and the founders of Black Lives Matter have been named to TIME magazine's 2020 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. TIME released the list on Tuesday night, revealing Fauci as one of the eight cover stars for this year's issue, alongside R&B singer The Weeknd, Alphabet CEO...
ARSENAL have reportedly returned no set of negative coronavirus testings despite last Saturday’s opponents West Ham returning three. The Hammers, who lost 2-1 to Mikel Arteta’s side at the Emirates, had manager David Moyes plus midfielders Josh Cullen and Issa Diop miss out last night’s Carabao Cup game with Hull. 1Mikel Arteta (right) and his...
RIVERSIDE (CBSLA) — Despite just entering the red tier of the state’s COVID-19 monitoring system, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors has voted to draft a plan to accelerate reopening after residents urged them to abandon Gov. Newsom’s guidelines and lift all restrictions. In a board meeting on Tuesday, hundreds of residents said they think...
CHENNAI, India — “Will India be No.1 by Dussehra, or Diwali?” Atul Thakur, referring to major Hindu festivals occurring in October and November, poses that question in the Times of India. He is not talking about primacy in economic growth. Rather, he refers to the number of COVID-19 infections and the pace of their...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco nearly $14 billion budget was approved by a 10-1 during Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, with Supervisor Catherine Stefani voting against it. When Mayor London Breed submitted her budget proposal in July, it included a $120 million divestment from law enforcement and put toward the city’s African American...
COVID-19 made internships more difficult for students, especially underrepresented ones.Race and social justice is just one of the areas we're focused on as we work to Build a Better Bay Area during the pandemic. One mother-daughter duo is teaming up with companies to create virtual internships, making a difference for dozens of students.RELATED: Bay Area...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Six months after Illinois recorded its first COVID-19-related death, a South Side woman whose sister would also die days later, their brother hopes others can heed the warning his loved ones never got.The United States officially reached 200,000 COVID-19 deaths Tuesday. In downtown Northbrook, a billboard counts the number of COVID-19 deaths,...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Riverside County reported 10 additional deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus Tuesday, while San Bernardino and Ventura reported new cases. Riverside County health officials reported 63 newly confirmed cases and 10 additional fatalities, bringing countywide totals to 57,482 cases and 1,172 deaths. There were 146 coronavirus patients hospitalized Tuesday, 42 of...
Six Big Apple neighborhoods now account for 20 percent of all coronavirus cases citywide — part of a local surge in the global pandemic that includes a stretch of southern Brooklyn dubbed the “Ocean Parkway Cluster,” health officials said Tuesday. The cluster, along the thoroughfare in Midwood, Borough Park and Bensonhurst, reported a 4.7...
(CBS DETROIT) – Experts say N95 masks are more effective in protecting against Covid-19. The masks are mainly worn by healthcare workers who are on the frontlines fighting against the virus. In order to assure their safety, researchers at Henry Ford Health and U of M Ann Arbor have come up with a way to...
A combined 37 teachers and students at East Brunswick High School are quarantining after coming in contact with COVID-19 cases, district officials said. The 10 teachers and 27 students all came in contact with three separate cases, not from within the school system, East Brunswick Schools Superintendent Victor Valeski said. In addition to those cases, local athletic...
A combined 37 teachers and students at East Brunswick High School are quarantining after coming in contact with COVID-19 cases, district officials said. The 10 teachers and 27 students all came in contact with three separate cases, not from within the school system, East Brunswick Schools Superintendent Victor Valeski said. In addition to those cases, local athletic...
LAS VEGAS (CNN) — Tommy DeVito, a founding member of The Four Seasons, the band portrayed in the hit musical “Jersey Boys,” has died of COVID-19 complications at 92. DeVito died in Las Vegas on Monday, according to his friend Alfredo Nittoli, who first posted the news on Facebook. Two other founding members, Frankie...
Six Big Apple neighborhoods now account for 20 percent of all coronavirus cases citywide — part of a local surge in the global pandemic that includes a stretch of southern Brooklyn dubbed the “Ocean Parkway Cluster,” health officials said Tuesday. The cluster, along a thoroughfare in Midwood, Borough Park and Bensonhurst, reported a 4.7 percent...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — TIME recently named a Johns Hopkins University professor to its 2020 list of the 100 most influential people in the world for developing a free and open website for the public to track the COVID-19 pandemic in near-real-time. Lauren Gardner, a civil and systems engineering professor in the Whiting School of Engineering, led...
By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said Tuesday the city plans to allow some activities that were shut down last month to control the spread of the coronavirus to resume under new guidelines. Beginning Thursday, the city will allow social gatherings of up to five people, including at beaches...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is considering allowing more foreigners into the country for longer stays starting as early as next month, while keeping the COVID-19 entry curbs in place for tourists, the Asahi newspaper reported on Wednesday. In an effort to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, Japan has adopted some of the strictest...
After getting kudos for its early response to the coronavirus, Subway Restaurants is now being blasted by store operators for demanding that they return to business as usual despite still-sagging sales in the midst of the pandemic. Subway this month told its roughly 23,000 US restaurants to resume operating 84 hours a week, or...
(CNN)As cases surge in Kentucky and Ohio, one hospital is begging residents to wear masks and practice social distancing, as it reaches capacity due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic."Our hospital is at capacity. We are working to open a third nursing unit to care for COVID patients," wrote Kristie Whitlatch, president and CEO of King's...
EAST PALO ALTO (CBS SF) — Officials in East Palo Alto and San Mateo County on Tuesday were scrambling to contain a COVID-19 outbreak in the blue-collar, working-class community at the southern end of the county. “That 15 percent where we’re at right now is an alarming rate; not only for East Palo Alto, but...
(CNN) — Las personas negras e hispanas tienen el doble de probabilidades de dar positivo en la prueba de covid-19 que las personas blancas, incluso después de ajustar por factores externos, dice un nuevo estudio. La disparidad no se puede explicar por completo por las condiciones de salud subyacentes. Tampoco por el lugar de residencia...
A University of Cincinnati professor, John Ucker, was placed on administrative leave last week after referring to coronavirus as the "Chinese virus " in an email to a student. A student in Ucker's class posted a screenshot of the email on Twitter, and said that Ucker gave him a zero after the school's health department told him not...
Co-workers say Shyla Pennington, a longtime Florida teacher’s aide, was a natural with her students—patient, kind, and committed to each child as if they were her own. Pennington, who worked for almost 20 years in the Volusia County School District, lived with her brother, Gerald Jones, a paramedic whom community members described as “selfless”...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- COVID-19 has already forced Illinois election officials to retool some voting procedures. Social distancing, personal protective equipment and additional ways to turn in your ballot are all side-effects of the pandemic.Some election authorities are worried the virus may prevent people from signing up to work the polls. Although in Chicago, so far,...
Nursing homes in the South Bay and East Bay along with Santa Clara Valley Medical Center were issued fines on Tuesday for failing to protect workers from COVID-19 exposure, said the state agency which oversees workplace safety. Cal/OSHA issued the largest penalty against the Santa Rosa Police Department, where a 43-year-old detective died of the...
Despite the number of individuals infected by the novel coronavirus and the increasing deaths as a result, individuals nationwide continue to dismiss the virus as a hoax. As the pandemic continues to spread across the U.S., stories of those who openly denied the virus only to be infected by it are increasing. While some...
The U.S. COVID-19 death toll hit 200,000 Tuesday, but the rate of deaths has slowed, keeping hopes alive for a less disruptive fall. The current coronavirus mortality rate in the United States is nowhere near what it was in April at the pandemic’s peak, when daily deaths would often surpass 2,000. Keeping coronavirus...
(CNN)The University of Notre Dame was forced to postpone its football game against Wake Forest on Saturday after multiple student-athletes tested positive for Covid-19.Seven out of 94 football players on the Fighting Irish tested positive, Notre Dame said in a news release Tuesday. Those individuals are in isolation and contact tracing is underway.In a statement,...
SANTA ANA (CBSLA) — Orange County reported 22 additional coronavirus deaths and 181 new cases Tuesday as county officials anticipated an upgrade to the less restrictive orange tier of the state’s monitoring system. The new numbers bring the county’s totals to 52,382 cases and 1,150 fatalities since the pandemic began. According to the Orange County...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's Health Department has identified a new cluster of COVID-19 cases in Brooklyn, and said on Tuesday a marked uptick in infections there and in some other neighborhoods is "cause for significant concern." (Reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Chris Reese) Copyright 2020 Thomson Reuters.
(CNN)More than 80 years ago, the American salesman extraordinaire, Elmer Wheeler, introduced his "Five Wheeler Points" to help his brethren boost sales of whatever it was they were selling. The first Point, later immortalized by an episode of Seinfeld , was this: "don't sell the steak -- sell the sizzle." JUST WATCHEDGiroir: We do...
Ohio's GOP Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted has been booed at a Trump rally after he tried to encourage the President's supporters to wear face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Republican politician took to the stage in front of 1,200 Trump supporters in Dayton on Monday evening, where he urged the crowd to cover their...
The Harris County School District is releasing its sixth weekly COVID-19 report. To be transparent, the data being shared for a seven-day range includes the total number of students as well as breaking the numbers down by on-campus/in-person and virtual, the total number of employees, the...
LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Firefighters in Colorado are not only battling flames, but fighting to prevent the spread of COVID-19. “I didn’t have a problem with showers. I just didn’t take one for a couple weeks. It’s okay it’s another reason for social distancing,” Poudre Fire Authority Battalion Chief Geoff Butler joked. (credit: CBS)...
SAN ANTONIO – As the coronavirus pandemic persists, so does the desire for a return to normalcy. Many college students in the San Antonio area have decided to attend classes on campus. About a month into the fall semester, school officials say they’re keeping a close eye on the situation to make sure the COVID-19...
(CNN)Even as the nation surpasses 200,000 Covid-19 deaths, there are still people who think the coronavirus is a hoax. Survivors of the disease and members of victims' families beg to differ and are sharing their very real experiences with the deadly disease.Ann and Marvin Robinson, a married couple in Casper, Wyoming, got the virus almost...
(CNN)Tommy DeVito, a founding member of The Four Seasons, the band portrayed in the hit musical "Jersey Boys," has died of Covid-19 complications at 92.DeVito died in Las Vegas on Monday, according to his friend Alfredo Nittoli, who first posted the news on Facebook.Two other founding members, Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio, also released a...
SAN ANTONIO – Editor’s Note: Watch the entire briefing in the video player above. Newsletter recipients can click here to access the video. San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County Commissioner Kevin Wolff updated the community about the local response to COVID-19 in their daily briefing Tuesday night. Nirenberg reported 53,639 total COVID-19 cases...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A virtual conference is shining a light on small businesses in Chicago and bringing entrepreneurs together to share their stories of survival during the pandemic.A West Town book store was forced to close only months after it had opened due to the COVID-19."We were feeling afraid," said Danielle Mullen from Semicolon Bookstore...
President Trump on Tuesday said that it’s a “horrible thing” and “a shame” that the US passed 200,000 COVID-19 deaths. “It’s a shame,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn as he departed for a campaign rally in Pittsburgh. “That being said, we shouldn’t have had anybody, and you saw my United Nations speech....
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that traditional trick-or-treating puts people at higher risk of spreading COVID-19.The agency says some alternative Halloween activities would reduce that risk.Halloween is one of Lana and Eddie McKendree favorite days of the year."We are looking to make it memorable especially because with all the e-learning I...
Covid-19 carriers with no symptoms are just as likely to transmit the coronavirus as those who feel ill, according to scientists. Two studies published today have given further clues about the role played by 'silent' spreaders – who make up around one in five of the infected. One study of South Korean Covid-19 cases revealed...
Children may be protected from coronavirus by the portion of the immune system that we have from birth, a new study finds. Researchers at Yale University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine found that adults who catch coronavirus are nine-times more likely to die of the infection compared to children. They went a step further,...
CHICAGO (CBS) — There are now 44 days until the November election, and on this day, when everyone is being urged to register to vote, we are learning there are big worries about mail-in ballots. Already in Illinois, more than 1.7 million people have requested them – four times the previous record in 2018. And...
NEW YORK - As the U.N. General Assembly annual debate got under way Tuesday, combating and eliminating the coronavirus pandemic was the foremost preoccupation of the world's major powers. Global leaders are meeting virtually this year due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide have surpassed 31 million, with...
CATONSVILLE, Md. (WJZ) — If you need to be tested for COVID-19, you can now go to the Patient First on Baltimore National Pike in Catonsville. You must have an appointment, which can be made online, and currently be experiencing coronavirus symptoms or be an essential employee. CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE: TIMELINE: Coronavirus In Maryland, Tracking...
As the United States passes the grim milestone of 200,000 Covid-19 deaths, Fox News continues to mostly ignore the ever-mounting death toll in favor of complaining about health measures meant to mitigate the pandemic’s worst-case scenario. So says a new report by the journalistic watchdog group Media Matters for America published on Tuesday which details how Fox News has complained about...
WASHINGTON (CBS News/CBS SF) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday released guidance assessing the risk level of traditional activities for the upcoming holiday season amid the coronavirus pandemic. On the list of higher-risk activities for Halloween is traditional door-to-door trick-or-treating. According to CBS News, the list of high-risk activities also includes trunk-or-treating —...
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce new standards for approving a coronavirus vaccine in an apparent attempt to shore up confidence with the American people, according to a report. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that two individuals familiar with the issue said the FDA will ask manufacturers to follow clinical trial participants for at...
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