The population of Los Angeles County is larger than that of 41 states. Laws and regulations that start in California often become models for federal regulators and for legislators and officials in other states. Thus Covid rules that start there have national implications.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles County on Wednesday moved to relax some restrictions on businesses amid upticks in coronavirus cases in recent weeks that has delayed the county from moving out...
Oct 07, 2020
Readers Digest – Before March 2020, online shopping accounted for just 3 percent of all grocery sales, or about $1.2 billion.
By June, that number shot up to $7.2 billion. Now, with social distancing mandates still in effect in many places, plenty of customers are going to be using virtual carts for a long time to come.
“When COVID-19 hit, a lot of people who had never really thought about their grocery shopping...
Oct 14, 2020
Naz Beheshti, Contributor |
Forbes – The U.S. Army has conducted a significant overhaul of its fitness training field manual. Behind this change is a new mindset: a redefinition of “soldier readiness” and what goes into peak performance.
Business leaders can draw some valuable lessons from the new holistic approach.
The embrace of naps draws the New York Times headline, but the new mindset is more far-reaching than that. Fundamentally, the revised manual is...
Don't bet on the U.S.-Canadian border reopening anytime soon |
Oct 15, 2020
USA TODAY – In an interview Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country is committed to keeping the border closed until the United States gets control of COVID-19.
"The U.S. is not in a place where we would feel comfortable reopening those borders," he told the hosts of "Smart Start," which airs on Canada's Global Television Network. “We will continue to make...
Oct 13, 2020
Prevention – Snake hunters working to remove the thousands of invasive Burmese pythons plaguing the Florida Everglades just made a record-breaking capture.
While the average Burmese python found in the Everglades ranges from 8 to 10 feet, this “behemoth of a snake” is a whopping 18 feet and 9 inches (and a hefty 104 pounds!).
“The removal of this behemoth Burmese python is a triumph for our native wildlife and habitats,” FWC Commissioner Rodney...
Until a coronavirus vaccine is ready, pneumonia vaccines may reduce COVID-19 deaths |
Robert Root-Bernstein, Professor of Physiology, Michigan State U. |
Oct 14, 2020
The yearly influenza season threatens to make the COVID-19 pandemic doubly deadly, but I believe that this isn’t inevitable.
There are two commonly given vaccines – the pneumococcal vaccine and the Hib vaccine – that protect against bacterial pneumonias.
These bacteria complicate both influenza and COVID-19, often leading to death. My examination of disease trends...
Takeaways: Barrett is reticent as Dems focus on health care
Oct 13, 2020 |
AP – Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett faced her first day's worth of questions Tuesday from the Senate Judiciary Committee, and it was a calmer affair than other recent confirmation hearings that featured Democratic procedural delays and interruptions from protesters.
With public attendance limited by the coronavirus pandemic and Democrats staying focused on a health care message just three weeks ahead of...
Oct 13, 2020
The New York Post – COVID-19 has been detected in the eyeballs of patients who have died from the illness, a new study says.
Researchers from the Center for Vision and Eye Banking Research in Eversight, Ohio, performed autopsies to evaluate the eye tissue of 10 people who tested positive for the virus after they died.
From the 20 eyes recovered from the group, researchers found evidence of genome of SARS-CoV-2.
The study, which...
“I’ve watched Joe Biden on the campaign trail and I am concerned and convinced that he does not have the mental capacity, the cognitive ability, to serve as our commander-in-chief and our head of state.” – Former White House physician Ronny Jackson
Oct 13, 2020
New York Post – Former White House physician Ronny Jackson told reporters on Tuesday that he was “convinced” Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, 77, does not have the cognitive ability...
"I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate."
Oct 11, 2020
(CNN) Dr. Anthony Fauci did not consent to being featured in a new ad from the Trump campaign touting President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Instead, the nation's leading infectious disease expert told CNN his words were taken out of context.
"In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate. The comments attributed to...
Oct 12, 2020 |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will try to put his bout with COVID-19 behind him when he returns to the campaign trail on Monday, beginning a three-week sprint to the Nov. 3 election with a rally in the vital battleground state of Florida.
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The event at an airport in Sanford, Florida, will be Trump’s first campaign rally since he disclosed on Oct. 2 that he tested positive...
Police Identify Guard Suspected in Fatal Shooting During Denver ‘Patriot Rally’
October 11, 2020
Epoch Times – The hired security guard accused of shooting a protester dead during a Denver rally on Saturday was identified by police as Matthew Robert Dolloff.
Dolloff, 30, is being held in connection to a first-degree murder investigation in the shooting of Lee Keltner, the Denver Police Department announced on Sunday.
Officials said Dolloff has not yet been charged. He is being questioned...
"Tyrants Get The Rope"
New details emerge in kidnapping plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Whitmer blames Trump after FBI 'foils plot' to kidnap Michigan governor
Oct 10, 2020
Fox News – The militia group plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hatched their plan -- which included firebombing police vehicles -- in the basement of a vacuum store in Grand Rapids, according to news reports.
Six men were arrested by the FBI on Wednesday and charged with attempting...
"The public doesn’t always learn how badly people get hurt in the most serious accidents at Florida’s major theme parks because of a self-reporting system that lacks government oversight."
How crushed toes become ‘foot pain’ |
Orlando Sentinel Special Report |
Oct 8, 2020 |
On Universal’s E.T. Adventure, an 11-year-old boy crushed his foot and leg as the ride pulled up into the exit platform last year.
The force of the impact sent the boy’s shoe flying,...