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Mar 17 2023
News
New report suggests COVID pandemic's origins linked to raccoon dogs at Wuhan market
A new report suggests the virus that causes COVID-19 may be linked to raccoon dogs that were illegally being sold at a wet seafood market in China.
First reported in The Atlantic, a team of scientists from around the world announced Thursday they believe the virus, SARS-CoV-2, originated at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, where the outbreak began.
It comes amid
ABC News (Online)
Jan 19 2023
News
Misbehavior at Iowa schools increases post pandemic
School districts statewide experienced nearly 64,000 in and out of school suspensions and expulsions in 2021-22 — an uptick compared to the last six years, according to annual data from the Iowa Department of Education. • There were over 36,000 out-of-school suspensions alone, according to the state. Why it matters: Since the pandemic began, there's been a nationwide increase in misbehavior in
Axios
Mar 13 2023
News
Feeding Our Future: 10 more charged in "brazen" Minnesota pandemic fraud case
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota on Monday announced charges against 10 more people in connection with the Feeding Our Future fraud investigation. The big picture: Sixty people have now been implicated in what prosecutors have called a "brazen" $250 million scheme to defraud a federal program meant to feed children in need during the pandemic. • It's believed to be the nation's biggest
Axios
Mar 11 2023
News
House votes unanimously to declassify intelligence on origins of Covid pandemic, sending bill to Biden
The House of Representatives on Friday unanimously voted to declassify information on possible links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Covid-19 pandemic, sending the bill to President Joe Biden.
The Senate also voted unanimously earlier this month to require Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to declassify such information.
Covid first emerged in Wuhan,
CNBC
Feb 20 2023
News
Food Stamp Program in Political Crosshairs as Pandemic-Era Changes End
The ending of the Covid-19 public-health emergency means a reset for the country’s food stamps program, which aids more than 41 million Americans, as lawmakers weigh whether to make more far-reaching changes as part of the next farm bill.
An extra boost in the food assistance for low-income households that Congress authorized at the start of the pandemic will wind down this month, and
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jun 06 2023
News
ND Issues Medicaid Renewal Plea After Thousands Disenrolled
North Dakota officials are urging people receiving health coverage through a key public program to stay on top of their renewal if they are still eligible. It follows the end of pandemic rules for Medicaid. At the start of the COVID crisis, Congress paved the way for states to keep people continuously enrolled in Medicaid. But with the public health emergency over, states such as North Dakota
Public News Service
Sep 23 2022
News
Is the Pandemic Over . . . or Not?
There is no widely accepted scientific definition of when a pandemic starts or ends. Ending it is a political decision, and Joe Biden has made it.
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, governments across the world have asserted emergency powers in response to the threat of this new biological nemesis. The United States, both the federal and state governments, was
National Review
Jun 05 2023
News
Las Vegas Planning Permanent Memorial for Victims of 2017 Music Festival Shooting
Las Vegas will soon decide on one of five potential designs for a permanent monument to victims of the 2017 shooting on The Strip that left 60 people dead. The memorial has been in development for more than three years and was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be placed at the site of the massacre, where 58 people were killed by gunfire and thousands more were injured during the Route
The Messenger
Jun 05 2023
News
Burlington asks state to fund new emergency shelter, motel stays
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger and the Chittenden County Homeless Alliance are seeking $4 million from the state to turn a state office building into an emergency shelter and to extend hotel stays for 165 “vulnerable households” in the county. Weinberger told reporters at a press conference Monday that the city sent its proposal to the Agency of Human Services last Thursday, the same day
VT Digger
Nov 01 2022
Opinion
Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty
In April 2020, with nothing else to do, my family took an enormous number of hikes. We all wore cloth masks that I had made myself. We had a family hand signal, which the person in the front would use if someone was approaching on the trail and we needed to put on our masks. Once, when another child got too close to my then-4-year-old son on a bridge, he yelled at her “SOCIAL DISTANCING!”
Emily Oster