Feb. 20, 2022Updated: Feb. 20, 2022 8:48 a.m. 1of5Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022.Gregorio Borgia/APShow MoreShow Less 2of5Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, […]
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Kansas Mission of Mercy dental clinic rescheduled in light of COVID outbreak
By Hailey Chapman / Hays Daily News As COVID-19 cases rise with the Omicron variant causing further outbreaks, the Kansas Dental Charitable Foundation has made the difficult decision to reschedule the Kansas Mission of Mercy event in Hays. The new dates for the KMOM Event will be March 25 and […]
Knitting during COVID pandemic is soothing, but why?
Half of getting through the pandemic seems to entail keeping busy. Since the arrival of the virus that shall not be named, I’ve periodically “rediscovered” old interests. I gorged myself on crime novels, joined a weekly “Seinfeld” watching group, spent a month on the coast of Massachusetts, tried to find […]
Billings School District will continue mask mandate as COVID cases spike | Local News
In this file photo from December, Senior High students wait in line to get on their bus after school Friday, Dec. 10, 2021, in Billings. The Billings School District tentatively plans to remove its mask mandates next semester. RYAN BERRY, Billings Gazette Billings Gazette Billings School District 2 will continue with […]
Kansas courts’ COVID backlog mostly cleared up, chief justice says
The state’s top judicial official said Tuesday that courts in Kansas are rebounding well to the aftershocks of COVID-19-induced changes, with a backlog of cases mostly resolved. In her address to the legislature on the state of the Kansas judiciary, Marla Luckert, chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, praised the […]
Former NFL player returns to St. Louis to open COVID testing lab
“I bring a championship mentality to anything I am involved in,” Super Bowl champ Sylvester Williams said of his new venture: Quantum Laboratory. BRIDGETON, Mo. — Inside a Bridgeton office building, a renovated dentist’s office now houses Missouri’s only Black-owned testing lab: Quantum Laboratory. It’s an $800,000 facility with former […]
Pamplin Media Group – COVID, Heart Disease and Oral Health
This article brought to you courtesy of Dr. Alan Neal of Dental Care of Canby, Canby Herald Insider Family Dentistry Expert. According to an article in Decisions in Dentistry, a n online journal “Individuals with cardiovascular disease experienced greater severity of COVID-19 illness and longer recovery times in the presence […]
Madison County IL resolution on COVID vaccine mandates
Edwardsville The Madison County Board delayed voting on a nonbinding resolution denouncing vaccine mandates, mandatory testing, terminations and exclusions related to COVID-19 on Wednesday night. Chairman Kurt Prenzler says he favors the resolution, but pushed to postpone a vote, saying it was a matter better suited for the Madison County […]
Easing of COVID travel restrictions lets loved ones reunite
For Erin Tridle and her boyfriend, it was love at first sight. They met while the American was traveling in France in the summer of 2019. They said, “I love you,” on day two. “People tell us it’s like something from a movie,” she said. When Tridle returned home to […]
The Yelp of COVID: Vigilantes crowdsource pandemic safety tips for consumers
ATHENS, Ga. — Melissa Lee had more to deal with than funeral planning when her husband, Dan Williams, died by suicide in January. She also was faced with continuing his 1,400-member Facebook group, “Athens, GA Mask Grades 2.0,” designed to help residents of Athens protect themselves from COVID-19 by grading […]
COVID Vigilantes Crowdsource Pandemic Safety Tips for Consumers | Healthiest Communities Health News
ATHENS, Ga. — Melissa Lee had more to deal with than funeral planning when her husband, Dan Lee, died by suicide in January. She also was faced with continuing Dan’s 1,400-member Facebook group, “Athens, GA Mask Grades 2.0,” designed to help residents of Athens protect themselves from COVID-19 by grading […]
YouTube yanked public meeting videos over COVID misinformation. Now it’s backtracking
Local government meetings often come with a designated time for public comment, offering a glimpse into the good, the bad and the strange of each community. The coronavirus pandemic pushed many of these meetings online. But city councils and school boards around the country ran into a dilemma: Public comment, […]
Calif., New York City, Dept. of Veteran Affairs Pass COVID Vaccine Requirements for Employees
Young Man Dies After Chronicling His Battle with COVID and His Vaccination Hesitancy Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Vaccine California, New York City and the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) announced COVID-19 vaccination requirements for their employees on Monday. For California and New York City, employees who do not […]
Hospital fire deepens Iraq’s COVID crisis
BAGHDAD (AP) — No beds, medicines running low and hospital wards prone to fire — Iraq’s doctors say they are losing the battle against the coronavirus. And they say that was true even before a devastating blaze killed scores of people in a COVID-19 isolation unit this week. Infections in […]
Little-known FEMA program covers COVID funeral costs | Coronavirus
In April the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced it would help families pay for funeral costs of COVID-19 victims. When Anne Parks, who works for the Cattaraugus County Department of the Aging, learned of the new FEMA program, she began passing the word to families who had lost a loved […]
Tucker: Why isn’t Dr. Fauci investigated for his role in COVID pandemic?
This is a rush transcript from “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” May 10, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS HOST: Good evening, and welcome to TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT. Happy Monday. How do we assess the Biden administration’s response to COVID? […]
Wealthy Latin Americans travel to U.S. to get Covid vaccines: ‘Matter of survival’
MONTERREY, Mexico — They travel thousands of miles by plane from Latin America to the U.S., in some places taking a shuttle directly from the airport to Covid-19 vaccine sites. Their ranks include politicians, TV personalities, business executives and a soccer team. People of means from Latin America are chartering […]
Wealthy Latin Americans seek COVID shots in US
CLOSE Alaska, which has been hard hit by a lack of tourism during the pandemic, is using the state’s excess of vaccines to lure tourists to the northernmost state. (April 16) AP Domestic MONTERREY, Mexico — They travel thousands of miles by plane from Latin America to the U.S., in […]
Doctor escaped genocide at home but died of COVID in California
Kaiser Health News/California HealthLine Linath Lim’s life was shaped by starvation. She was not yet 13 when the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia and ripped her family apart. The totalitarian regime sent her and four siblings to work camps, where they planted rice and dug irrigation canals from sunrise […]
Brutally honest, painful, humorous: Obituaries take on new life during COVID
As obituary writer Margalit Fox said in the 2016 documentary “Obit,” about the New York Times obituaries section, “Obits have next to nothing to do with death, and, in fact, absolutely everything to do with life.” Michael de Adder, 53, heartily agrees. The quirky, often humorous, obituary he wrote in […]