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Lawsuit: Nursing Home Staff Were Ordered Not to Wear PPE

Virus killed 19 at Michigan facility

(Newser) - Former employees of a Michigan nursing home say it had a strict mask policy in the weeks after the pandemic hit the state: No masks allowed. Three ex-employees are suing the the Villages of Lapeer Nursing and Rehabilitation in Lapeer, along with relatives of Wanda Parker, one of 19 residents...

Tip Leads to Pool Party With Hundreds of People, Zero Masks

Party got broken up on Saturday

(Newser) - The photos are very 2019: A pool packed with young bodies and littered with empty cans, with nary a mask in sight (see them here ). Except they were taken by South Carolina's Columbia Fire Department on Saturday as they broke up a pool party that the State reports...

Tweet From Herman Cain's Account Comes Down Quickly

Feed of politician who died from COVID suggested media was exaggerating dangers

(Newser) - Herman Cain died battling COVID-19 last month, but his Twitter feed lives on. And a tweet that went out Sunday night under the "Cain Gang" feed caused some double-takes, reports Mediaite . "It looks like the virus is not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out...

Another Unwanted COVID Milestone in US

6M cases

(Newser) - The big number in US headlines Monday: 6 million. As in 6 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the nation. The New York Times and NBC News separately say their databases show that the US already has reached the milestone. The tally from Johns Hopkins University had the US fewer...

US Getting Back Into Virus-Hunting Business

Stop Spillover to take over for Predict program, which was allowed to die right before the pandemic

(Newser) - For a decade, a US program spent hundreds of millions of dollars to train scientists in dozens of countries around the world to search for threatening new animal viruses. The initiative sussed out more than 1,000 new viruses over its life span, but the Trump administration let the program...

United: OK, We'll Drop That $200 Change Fee

CEO says airline is listening to customers

(Newser) - United Airlines says it listened to customers and is dropping an unpopular $200 fee for most people who change a ticket for travel within the United States, the AP reports. “When we hear from customers about where we can improve, getting rid of fees is often the top request,...

Profs 'Terrified' by Order to Keep Quiet About Outbreak

The University of Alabama sent staffers an email

(Newser) - The University of Alabama is telling professors to keep quiet about a coronavirus outbreak afflicting the student body, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. "Do not tell the rest of the class," administration officials wrote in an email, underlining the word "not." An online COVID-19 dashboard reports 1,...

Creative Testing Catches Virus Early: &#39;This Is How You Do It&#39;
University Stops
Virus Outbreak
'in Its Tracks'
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Aug 30, 2020 10:40 AM CDT

University Stops Virus Outbreak 'in Its Tracks'

University of Arizona's testing of wastewater samples leads to 2 asymptomatic students

(Newser) - Everyone in the dorm seemed just fine. But by using a creative testing method, researchers at the University of Arizona were able to quickly determine two students in the college residence had COVID-19, fending off a larger outbreak throughout the dorm and the entire school. The Arizona Republic reports that...

Earth Hits a Grim COVID Milestone
Earth Hits a Grim
COVID Milestone
Aug 30, 2020 9:12 AM CDT

Earth Hits a Grim COVID Milestone

India hits a record 78,761 new cases in a single day

(Newser) - More than 25 million inhabitants of planet Earth have now contracted COVID-19, according to data out of John Hopkins University on Sunday. That eye-popping number was put over the top partly by a record-breaking number of cases out of India, which saw 78,761 cases in the previous 24 hours...

One Business Conference Leads to 20K COVID Cases
From a Single Get-Together,
20K COVID Cases
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Aug 29, 2020 10:30 AM CDT

From a Single Get-Together, 20K COVID Cases

Researchers say Biogen's February meeting in Boston was a super-spreader event

(Newser) - When the drug company Biogen held a conference at a Boston hotel on Feb. 26-27, the US had a grand total of 15 coronavirus cases on the books, notes the Washington Post . That would change quickly, of course, and a new study demonstrates how events like this international conference helped...

Man Faces $560K Fine for Abusing &#39;Alaska Loophole&#39;
Man Faces $560K Fine
for Abusing 'Alaska Loophole'
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Aug 29, 2020 7:00 AM CDT

Man Faces $560K Fine for Abusing 'Alaska Loophole'

Canadians say he wasn't supposed to be sightseeing

(Newser) - A brief sightseeing trip in Canada could end up costing a Kentucky man more than $500,000. The US-Canada border has been closed to most travelers since March, but Americans are still allowed to travel between Alaska and the lower 48 states if they take the most direct route possible...

Big US First on COVID: 'There's No Invulnerability Here'

Nevada research team says man was reinfected with different strain of coronavirus

(Newser) - Earlier this week, the world's first confirmed case of someone reinfected with COVID-19 emerged out of Hong Kong. Now, the US claims its first case. Per CNN , researchers from the University of Nevada-Reno School of Medicine and the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory detail the case of a 25-year-old...

PR Shakeup Follows Plasma Exaggeration

FDA removes Emily Miller as spokeswoman after 11 days

(Newser) - Commissioner Stephen Hahn fired the Food and Drug Administration's spokeswoman on Friday, after a bungled announcement of a blood plasma treatment for COVID-19. Emily Miller had been on the job 11 days, the New York Times reports. The contract of a public relations consultant, who had urged Hahn to...

4 Test Positive for COVID at GOP Convention
4 Test Positive
for COVID at RNC
Aug 28, 2020 2:33 PM CDT

4 Test Positive for COVID at RNC

All were sent home upon arrival

(Newser) - Health officials in Charlotte said Friday they conducted 792 coronavirus tests connected to the Republican National Convention, and four test results—for two attendees and two local employees—were positive, the Hill reports. "We had diligent safety protocols in place, including testing all attendees before arriving in Charlotte, and...

Britain Wants Workers Back in City Centers

Businesses need the foot traffic, officials say

(Newser) - The British government is encouraging workers to return to their offices amid concerns that the shift to working from home during the coronavirus pandemic is hurting businesses and leaving city centers virtual "ghost towns." Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government plans to roll out a media campaign next...

Delta Won't Fly 240 Who Broke Mask Rule

Policy applies to employees as well

(Newser) - There's more evidence that Delta is serious about making sure everyone on its flights is wearing a face mask. The airline recently told a former Navy SEAL who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden that he's no longer welcome after he took his mask off on a...

CDC Revises the Revision on Testing Guidance

Redfield says people without symptoms can take a test if they want one, and if their provider agrees

(Newser) - The new guidance on coronavirus testing issued Monday by the CDC didn't last the week. After decreeing that people without symptoms don't need to be tested , the agency backtracked Thursday, the Hill reports. Dr. Robert Redfield said anyone who's been in contact with someone confirmed to have...

Jobless Claims Remain Above a Big Threshold

Once again, more than 1 million apply for benefits in the last week

(Newser) - Just over 1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a sign that the coronavirus outbreak continues to threaten jobs even as the housing market, auto sales, and other segments of the economy rebound from a springtime collapse, per the AP . The Labor Department reported Thursday that the number...

Oahu Is Shutting Down Again as Cases Explode

2-week order starts Thursday

(Newser) - Over the past four weeks Hawaii's coronavirus cases have jumped from just 1,688 since the start of the pandemic to 6,700, and the governor is taking a big step to get those numbers headed back in the right direction. "In March and April, we were successful...

Millionaire COVID Skeptic Now Has the Virus

Flavio Briatore's nightclub has been tied to dozens of COVID-19 cases

(Newser) - A man who Reuters calls "one of Italy’s most flamboyant businessmen" and who the Times of London dubs "one of Italy's leading COVID skeptics" has been hospitalized in stable condition in Milan after testing positive for the coronavirus—this after railing against the measures his country...

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