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Dec 10 2020
News
COVID-19 patient infected indoors after 5 minutes, 20 feet away: study
A South Korean high school student was infected with COVID-19 within five minutes and from a person 20 feet away while dining indoors, according to a new study.
The case initially stumped contact tracers because North Jeolla province, where the restaurant was located, hadn’t reported any infections in a month, according to the report in the Journal of Korean Medical Science.
The
New York Post (News)
Jun 21 2021
News
More people are flying — so why are airlines slashing flights and hiking prices?
A shortage of pilots and a faster-than-expected takeoff in passenger demand is forcing some airlines to cut back flights and retool schedules.
Passengers who have already booked their summer travel should look out for the possibility of rebookings — and those who have yet to buy their tickets should watch out for rising air fares, experts say.
Last week, daily passenger levels
NBC News (Online)
Oct 22 2020
News
U.S. Blames Iran For Threatening Election Emails, Says Russia May Interfere Too
Iranian influence specialists are behind threatening emails sent to voters in Alaska and Florida, U.S. officials said on Wednesday evening and suggested that more such interference could be in store from Russia.
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said the U.S. intelligence community believes Iranian and Russian operatives obtained voter-record information, which enabled
NPR (Online News)
Aug 25 2020
News
Trump's FDA chief apologizes for hyping unproven treatment on eve of Republican National Convention
Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), apologized Monday for overstating the benefits of convalescent plasma as a coronavirus treatment during a press conference with President Donald Trump one day earlier.
"I have been criticized for remarks I made Sunday night about the benefits of convalescent plasma. The criticism is entirely justified," Hahn said
Salon
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Fact Check Bias Chart & Ratings
The AllSides Fact Check Bias Chart™ reveals the media bias of top fact checkers, such as Snopes, Politifact, FactCheck.org and more.
Oct 17 2020
News
Pfizer CEO Says COVID Vaccine Will Not Be Ready by Election Day
Part of President Donald Trump’s pitch to voters, if you can even call it that, is that he’s personally hard at work shepherding a vaccine from the minds of American scientists into the arms of American voters—all by Election Day! Vote Trump or die! This has, of course, always been a ludicrous proposition based on a farcical timetable, all made even more preposterous by the underlying fact
Slate
Jun 17 2021
Opinion
Fox has mentioned “critical race theory” nearly 1,300 times in the past 3.5 months
Critical race theory, to those who can actually define it, is an academic and legal framework that examines the impact of systemic racism on American society. For conservatives however, it’s the latest boogeyman they can use to scare people into thinking America’s children are being “indoctrinated” by “woke” leftist teachers. And while that is not even remotely the case, this idea is exploding
Media Matters
Apr 06 2020
News
Chicago’s Coronavirus Cases See A Shocking Spike In Number Of Blacks Diagnosed
As coronavirus continues to ravage the country, striking majority minority communities, one of the hardest hit has been the city of Chicago, which has emerged as one of the leading areas where African Americans are suffering infections and deaths disproportionately.
Chicago news station WBEZ reports that while Blacks make up 23 percent of the Cook County, Illinois population, they make
BET
Sep 15 2021
News
'COVID-19 Hospitalizations' Are an Increasingly Misleading Measure of Severe Disease
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers, policy makers, and journalists have viewed hospitalizations as an important indicator of the disease burden, often citing increases in that measure as a justification for government interventions aimed at curtailing virus transmission, such as business restrictions and mask requirements. Hospitalization numbers do have advantages over
Reason
May 14 2021
News
COVID-19 lab leak theory cannot be ruled out, leading scientists say
The origin of the novel coronavirus is still unclear and the theory that it was caused by a laboratory leak needs to be taken seriously until there is a rigorous data-led investigation that proves it wrong, a group of leading scientists said.
COVID-19, which emerged in China in late 2019, has killed 3.34 million people, cost the world trillions of dollars in lost income and upended
Reuters