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Los Angeles County residents will have to observe stay-at-home orders for at least several more months, officials announced Tuesday. According to the Los Angeles Times, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer announced the move during a Board Supervisors Meeting, just days after the county began loosening its coronavirus lockdown restrictions. The director reportedly said the order will “with all certainty” remain […]
Though South Korea appeared to have gained control of the coronavirus, one man’s night out might have set the country back. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) confirmed 102 new cases of coronavirus as of Tuesday afternoon, The Korea Herald reports. The new cluster of cases has been traced back to one man who visited multiple […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading voice of reason on COVID-19 and thus a consistent target of Trump-related ire, is making sure the U.S. is aware of his stance regarding hasty pushes toward reopening. Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times reported late Monday that Dr. Fauci had relayed his message via e-mail, noting that […]
Princeton University has announced Nicholas Johnson, a student who majored in operations research and financial engineering, as the school’s first black valedictorian in its 274-year history. Johnson is also pursuing certificates in statistics and machine learning, applied and computational mathematics, and applications of computing. Johnson, a Montreal native, will spend the summer interning at the D.E. Shaw Group […]
File this one under developing story. On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed he’d be violating a local COVID-19 shelter-in place order for the purpose of reopening his company’s factory in California’s Alameda County. Musk further tweeted out that he’d be “on the line with everyone else,” and that if someone were to be arrested […]
Inmates in Los Angeles allegedly tried to finesse their way out of jail by catching the coronavirus. According to TMZ, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva claimed that around two dozen inmates at the Pitchess Detention Center attempted to contract COVID-19 on purpose in April. Villanueva says that the department saw a spike in coronavirus cases. Upon investigation, they found that […]
Florida is one of the states that is starting to reopen businesses despite the coronavirus pandemic. Yet, it seems like state officials aren’t moving fast enough for some residents. According to the local NBC–affiliate, Florida started phase one of reopening the state last week. But, Florida gyms won’t be allowed to reopen until phase two […]
Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey has donated $10 million to Meek Mill, JAY-Z, and Michael Rubin’s prison reform non-profit. Reform Alliance will receive the funds as part of Dorsey’s #StartSmall initative, and will be used to help with coronavirus pandemic relief efforts in prisons across the United States. It will also help provide PPE […]
A birthday party in Pasadena, California led to a cluster of coronavirus cases. The Pasadena Public Health Department said that a “large number” of extended family members and friends attended the event. The party happened after the city announced its stay-at-home directive in March, CNN reports. One patient who attended the party was coughing and hadn’t […]
The disturbing video of Ahmaud Arbery‘s shooting death was leaked to the media by a friend of the alleged murderers, according to newly published reports. Georgia attorney Alan Tucker told the New York Times he obtained the footage from the man, identified as William Bryan, who captured the incident on his cellphone. Tucker said he then sent […]
