Category: COVID-19

What it’s like to stay alive as the virus charts its fatal course through a home for the elderly in one of the worst-hit neighborhoods in the Bronx.   — Ava Kofman, ProPublica When someone in the building died, a notice was often taped to a window in the lobby: “WE REGRET TO ANNOUNCE THE […]

A nationwide eviction ban was supposed to protect tenants like Tawanda Mormon, who was forced out of her two-bedroom Cleveland apartment last month.   — CBS/AP, CBS News Mormon, 46, was hospitalized in August for the coronavirus and can’t work due to mental health issues. She said she fell behind on her $500-a-month rent because she needed […]

— ASSOCIATED PRESS, TSD MEMPHIS NASHVILLE — A federal judge will not block a nationwide eviction ban while Tennessee landlords pursue a legal challenge alleging the moratorium has infringed on their property rights and unfairly caused them financial harm. U.S. District Judge Mark Norris denied the landlords’ request to pause the sweeping eviction ban as […]

The trial was paused in compliance with regulatory standards after an “unexplained” illness in one of its participants, the company said. — Doha Madani, NBC News Johnson & Johnson has paused its clinical trials for a Covid-19 vaccine candidate after a participant fell ill, just weeks after it announced that trials were in their final stage. […]

— Allana Akhtar, Business Insider Nurses of Filipino descent comprise just 4% of the workforce, but nearly a third of registered nurse deaths due to COVID-19. National Nurses United, the country’s largest nurse union, released a report Monday detailing COVID-19 deaths among nurses and other healthcare workers. NNU estimates that 1,718 healthcare workers have died […]

The president’s result came after he spent months playing down the severity of the outbreak that has killed more than 207,000 in the United States and hours after insisting that “the end of the pandemic is in sight.” — Peter Baker & Maggie Haberman, The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump revealed early Friday morning that he and […]

— Sylvester Brown, The St. Louis American “In this business, if you don’t adapt, you fail, huh.” Ronald L. Jones has a unique way of using the word “huh.” For Jones, it’s more of an affirmation than a question. Like a preacher uses “Amen,” Jones employs “huh” to emphasize his points. In this case, he […]

— Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) The mother of a South Carolina teacher who died from Covid-19 earlier this month has died after she was infected by the virus, according to a relative. Shirley Bannister, 57, passed away from complications from Covid-19 on Sunday, according to her brother, Dennis Bell.Bannister is the mother of Demetria Bannister, a 28-year-old […]

— Reuters Staff, Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday and has decided to quarantine for 14 days, she said on Twitter, becoming the latest member of Congress to test positive for COVID-19. “I have taken every possible precaution and still contracted coronavirus,” Hayes, a Connecticut Democrat, said […]