Month: May 2020
Vietnam Lifts Quarantine Restrictions As No Deaths Are Reported
Vietnam reports only 270 confirmed COVID-19 cases and zero deaths. The country started lifting strict quarantine measures this week to ease the extreme economic hardship it is facing.
Read MoreLoosening Public-Health Restrictions Too Early Can Cost Lives. Just Look What Happened During the 1918 Flu Pandemic
On Jan. 25, 1919, nearly 2,000 San Franciscans showed up at Dreamland Rink for a public meeting of the Anti-Mask League. In the midst of a renewed wave of pandemic influenza that was washing over the city, the Board of
Read MoreHouse Judiciary Committee Calls On Amazon’s Bezos To Testify
The House Judiciary Committee has threatened to subpoena Amazon founder Jeff Bezos if he does not voluntarily address the company possibly misleading Congress in earlier testimony. (Image credit: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Read MoreSmart driving assistant Automatic is shutting down
Automatic, makers of a connected car dongle, emailed customers today to announce that the company will shut down all operations May 28. The company says it’s the casualty of the COVID-19 shutdown. “Like many other companies in the United States,
Read MoreThe Best New Songs of May 2020, from the Dixie Chicks to JP Saxe
Spring rolls on, and while we may be forced to wait a bit longer to receive the gift of full new albums from artists like Lady Gaga, others have stepped in to fill the void and keep us both entertained
Read MoreWHO says virus ‘natural in origin’
The World Health Organization reiterated Friday that the new coronavirus was of natural origin after US President Donald Trump claimed he had seen evidence it originated in a Chinese lab. Scientists believe the killer virus jumped from animals to humans,
Read MorePG&E to purge most of its board in fallout from bankruptcy
PG&E went bankrupt after years of neglect culminated in its fraying electrical grid igniting a series of deadly Northern California wildfires. The purge of its board of directors falls shy of meeting the demands of Gov. Gavin Newsom and PG&E’s
Read MoreCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom Explains Why He’s Not Ready to Reopen America’s Most Populous State
California, so far, is a relative success story amid the coronavirus pandemic. Bay Area counties were the first in the nation to issue stay-at-home orders; statewide policies followed soon thereafter. And swift action early on appears to have flattened the
Read MoreGeorgia businesses free to reopen as other U.S. states begin unwinding shutdowns
Nearly every business in Georgia was free to reopen on Friday after being shut for weeks, in a move closely watched by the U.S. government and other states to see if the lifting of restrictions triggers a spike in coronavirus
Read MoreSenate to convene, but Capitol physician warns lack of quick virus testing brings risk
As Congress prepares to partially return next week, the legislative branch will be a changed place, after all but shuttering for more than a month amid the virus outbreak.
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