Category: COVID-19

A new study finds that performing many low paid but essential jobs puts people at higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. It also finds that Black people in the United States are more likely to have these higher risk jobs. This could expose them disproportionately to a higher risk of infection. — James Kingsland, Medical News […]

Enslaved people were also driven west along the Trail of Tears. After a historic Supreme Court ruling, their descendants are fighting to be counted as tribal members. — Jack Healy, The New York Times OKMULGEE, Okla. — Ron Graham never had to prove to anyone that he was Black. But he has spent more than […]

— Associated Press, The Sacramento Observer (AP) – Missi Magness wanted her children back in school. The parent of a first-grader and a sixth-grader who attend schools on Indianapolis’ southeast side struggled trying to oversee her children’s schooling while working from home this spring. “They need the structure, they need the socialization, they just need […]

— Katie Shepherd, The Washington Post Teachers had just returned last month to prepare for the fall semester at John Evans Middle School in Potosi, Mo., when 34-year-old AshLee DeMarinis started to feel ill. DeMarinis had been worried about returning to work at the rural middle school, where she was starting her 11th year of […]

— Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) An elementary school teacher died of coronavirus complications a week into the start of the school year in South Carolina. Demetria Bannister was diagnosed with the virus Friday and died Monday. The 28-year-old had taught at the Windsor Elementary School in Columbia for five years, CNN affiliate WIS reported. She started her third year of […]

— Maggie Fox, CNN Health (CNN) Drug giant AstraZeneca said Tuesday it had paused global trials of its coronavirus vaccine because of an unexplained illness in one of the volunteers.” As part of the ongoing randomized, controlled global trials of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine, our standard review process triggered a pause to vaccination to allow […]

Some patients are still receiving staggering bills. Others don’t qualify because conditions other than Covid-19 were their primary diagnosis. By Abby Goodnough, The New York Times The cannabis industry generates billions of dollars in revenue each year as more and more states look to legalize it within the next year. The new legalization of the industry has […]

Abbott’s BinaxNOW uses the same technology as a pregnancy test By Nicole Wetsman, The Verge A COVID-19 test that takes 15 minutes and can be run without lab equipment was just granted emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration. It will cost $5, and runs on a simple card that uses the same technology […]

By Allison Dikanovic and Clara Neupert, Wisconsin Watch and Princess Safiya Byers, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, Madison365 Kelli Walton waited four weeks to hear whether she qualified for state emergency rental assistance. When the news came, it was too late. By the time the Social Development Commission, which distributes the aid, told her she was on […]

By Nicole Baker Fulgham, Medium A couple weeks into quarantine, I got a phone call from my brother. I heard that dreaded tone in his voice, reflexively caught my breath, and steadied myself as he cut to the chase: “Dad is sick; I think he needs a Covid test.” My father bestowed an ever-evolving nickname […]