While the majority of us were happy to spend the summer and fall seasons outside, and plan family trips once again with the kiddos, the fact of the matter is we are very much still living in a pandemic state. With the onset of […]
A version of this story appeared in the March 17 edition of CNN’s Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction newsletter. Sign up here to receive the need-to-know headlines every weekday. (CNN)After virtually all of western Europe temporarily suspended the use of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, the continent’s top medicines regulator […]
Viviane Faver A Brooklyn-based group called Safe Walks NYC offers safe walking from subway stations in response to violence in the neighborhood. In an exclusive interview for the New York Beacon, founder Peter Kerre -also founder of Street Riders NYC and involved in the Black […]
January 21, 2021 EditEdit with WPBakery Page Builder (CNN)President Joe Biden’s first full day in office Thursday will focus on getting the Covid-19 pandemic under control, rolling out his national strategy that includes several executive actions related to vaccinations and testing in hopes of moving the federal response […]
(CNN)Eleven months after the earliest recorded case of coronavirus in the United States, medical workers are preparing to give the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, with deliveries set to arrive at administration sites from around 8 a.m. ET Monday. Thousands of vials of the […]
December 1, 2020 Edit Protective equipment will still be needed and not everyone will be able to visit before Christmas Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Hugging is set to resume in England’s care homes with the rollout of rapid testing for visitors […]
(CNN)As the US prepares for the first round of vaccinations to tackle Covid-19, infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci called on the public to “be part of the solution” and get vaccinated once it is available. “Say, ‘I’m not going to be one of the […]
NEW YORK (WABC) — This is shaping up to be the busiest travel weekend of 2020. But those numbers are still way down from what we are used to seeing. In fact, according to the Port Authority, officials are expecting a 71 percent decrease […]
(CNN)In the deadly fall wave of the 1918 flu pandemic, millions of people were doomed because they didn’t know what we know now about how viruses and respiratory illnesses spread. We might face a similar fate if some people continue to ignore what a century of […]
New data from the Federal Reserve show the coronavirus pandemic has helped widen the wealth gap and increase income inequality in the United States. The coronavirus has exposed stark differences in jobs, education, and income in the U.S. Non-essential workers are paid more, have better educations, and typically […]
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