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A Top Doctor's Advice: Mask Up During Sex

The advice out of Canada applies to those with new lovers

(Newser) - Canada's top doctor has some advice that might not go over well with everyone: Dr. Theresa Tam says people should wear a mask during sex as the pandemic continues, reports CTV News . To be clear, Tam isn't talking about relations between husbands and wives or regular, live-in partners....

For Cops, COVID Is Deadlier Than Criminals

Statistics back up Biden's claim that more cops have died from COVID than on patrol

(Newser) - After Joe Biden said earlier this week that "more cops have died from COVID this year than have been killed on patrol," the Washington Post investigated the claim—and found it to be true. According to the Officer Down Memorial Page and the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial...

Why Nancy Pelosi Isn't Apologizing for Salon Visit

She calls it a 'setup,' says salon should apologize to her

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi isn't apologizing for her visit to a shuttered San Francisco hair salon , but the House speaker is accepting responsibility ... for falling for what she calls a setup. "I take responsibility for trusting the word of the neighborhood salon that I’ve been to over the years...

Fauci Has New Warning for Colleges on COVID

Don't send students home if there's an outbreak

(Newser) - As COVID-19 outbreaks crop up at college campuses across the country, some schools are reverting to online classes and, in some cases, even sending students back home. Dr. Anthony Fauci's strongly worded advice to schools on that latter move: Don't do it, per NBC News . "It's...

COVID Death Has Now Been Linked to Sturgis

Motorcycle rally drew more than 400K to South Dakota

(Newser) - Coronavirus cases linked to a huge South Dakota motorcycle rally have slowly been trickling in, and now the first COVID-19 death has been linked to the rally. More than 400,000 attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally between Aug. 7 and Aug. 16, and so far at least 260 cases in...

Supercomputer Triggers COVID-19 &#39;Eureka Moment&#39;
Supercomputer Triggers
COVID-19 'Eureka Moment'
new paper
Sep 2, 2020 7:15 PM CDT

Supercomputer Triggers COVID-19 'Eureka Moment'

Data from the Summit supercomputer might explain the coronavirus

(Newser) - Heard of the "bradykinin hypothesis"? It might just explain COVID-19's odd array of symptoms. That's according to a recent paper based on data crunched by a supercomputer in Tennessee, Medium reports. Earlier this year, the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory analyzed 17,000 genetic...

Next Year, Federal Debt Could Exceed GDP

This year's deficit on course to hit record $3.3T

(Newser) - The federal budget deficit is projected to hit a record $3.3 trillion as huge government expenditures to fight the coronavirus and prop up the economy have added more than $2 trillion to the federal ledger, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. The spike in the deficit means that federal...

Biden to Trump: This Is All Your Fault

The Democratic candidate slams Trump's response to COVID-19

(Newser) - Joe Biden made headlines Wednesday by criticizing President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the Hill reports. "Let me be clear, if President Trump and his administration had done their jobs early on with this crisis, American schools would be open, and they’d be open safely,"...

COVID-19 Antibodies Hold Tight for 4 Months
COVID-19 Antibodies
Hold Tight for 4 Months
new study
Sep 2, 2020 11:00 AM CDT

COVID-19 Antibodies Hold Tight for 4 Months

Levels were found to rise in months 1 and 2 and then hold steady

(Newser) - A new study out of Iceland has some new answers about COVID-19 antibodies—but also raises new questions. The upshot is that antibodies were found to persist in some people for at least four months after they contracted the coronavirus, per the study published Tuesday in the New England Journal ...

Fauci: 'Let There Not Be Any Confusion' on COVID Death Toll

NIAID director says yes, more than 180K have died, not just 9K, as claimed in tweet Trump shared

(Newser) - There have been nearly 185,000 deaths in the US from COVID-19, and Dr. Anthony Fauci is backing up that number after a misleading post retweeted by President Trump minimized the toll. Per the Hill , Trump on Sunday shared a since-deleted tweet from a QAnon fan named "Mel Q"...

Pelosi's Hair Appointment Raises a Ruckus

Speaker got her hair done at a shuttered salon in San Francisco, is photographed maskless

(Newser) - San Francisco's eSalon has been closed since March, and was only just Tuesday allowed to start accepting one customer at a time, outdoors only, again. Yet, in security footage from Monday afternoon, Nancy Pelosi can be seen inside the salon, maskless and mid-wash and blowout. The salon's owner...

CDC Issues Unprecedented Eviction Ban

Landlords barred from evicting tenants in certain conditions, through the end of the year

(Newser) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday issued an unprecedented order barring landlords from evicting tenants who can't afford rent because they lost income due to the coronavirus pandemic. The ban applies to tenants who expect to make less than $99,000 ($198,000 for joint-filing couples)...

Schools Debating Whether to Reveal Students' COVID Status

Boston University joins UA in not informing faculty, other students of infected students in their classes

(Newser) - University of Alabama professors aren't the only ones "terrified" of an administration directive on COVID-19 in their own classrooms. Last week, it was reported that instructors there received an email from higher-ups warning them not to reveal to the rest of the class if anyone in that class...

US Says It Won't Join Global Vaccine Effort

Critics slam 'go-it-alone approach'

(Newser) - The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine because it does not want to be constrained by multilateral groups like the World Health Organization. The decision to go it alone follows the White House’s decision...

Philly Mayor Gets Grief for Dining Inside a Restaurant

Jim Kenney has barred the practice in his city, ate in Maryland on Sunday

(Newser) - Do as he says, not as he does, apparently? Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has found himself on the receiving end of plenty of scorn after a photo was snapped of him dining inside a Maryland restaurant on Sunday. Kenney has banned indoor dining in restaurants in his city due to...

Unusual Shortage Could Affect Vaccine Research

US doesn't have enough test monkeys

(Newser) - The US needs a coronavirus vaccine. It also needs monkeys on which to test that vaccine, and that's where we have a problem. As the Atlantic reports, there is a national shortage of "nonhuman primates" used in animal testing, most of which come from China. The country provided...

Devo Lead Singer Shares His Scary COVID Story

Mark Mothersbaugh nearly died

(Newser) - Another celebrity has come forward to tell his coronavirus tale: This time, it's Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder and lead singer of Devo, and he says he nearly died of COVID-19 over the summer. He was taking the virus seriously, but while at work at his commercial music company near the...

$118K Raised for Girls Forced to Use Taco Bell WiFi

That's what they needed to do to attend remote school

(Newser) - They may live near Silicon Valley, but two children were forced to sit outside a Taco Bell in order to log on to their school's distance learning, so they could use the restaurant's free WiFi—and now more than $118,000 has been raised for them. "A...

This Country Has the Worst COVID Death Rate

Peru, followed by Belgium

(Newser) - Peru is No. 1 on a list you really don't want to top: the highest coronavirus death rates in the world. Peru has lost 873 per million people to COVID-19, Axios reports. The South American country surpassed Belgium, the previous holder of the top spot, which has a death...

Island Becomes Drive-Thru COVID Memorial

Families set up large photos of victims on Detroit's Belle Isle

(Newser) - A Detroit island park was transformed Monday into a drive-thru COVID-19 victims memorial, as hearses led processions around Belle Isle Park. More than 900 large photos of local coronavirus victims provided by relatives were turned into posters and staked into the ground, the AP reports. The pictures in the island...

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