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(CNN) - The deadly coronavirus may have circulated in the United States as early as December, about a month earlier than believed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to researchers with UCLA. Their study, published last Thursday in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, found a statistically significant increase in clinic and hospital visits by patients who reported respiratory illnesses as early as the week of December 22. The first known case of Covid-19 in the US was thought to be a patient in Washington who...
Overcrowded parties have forced several high schools to go back to online learning in hopes of staving off Covid-19 outbreaks. Two of those schools are in Massachusetts, which is reporting fewer cases than last week, and New York, which has maintained an infection rate less than 1% for 38 days. Although the states' numbers are promising, experts have warned that people attending large gatherings are a serious threat to managing the spread of the virus that has infected more than 6.5 million and killed 195,275 people in the US. Student parties...
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) is proud to participate in Welcoming Week September 12-20, a national initiative to celebrate and affirm the importance of inclusivity and connections for immigrants, refugees and long-term residents of Minnesota. As an agency, we focus on workforce and economic development and know firsthand the positive impact of immigrants and refugees on our state’s community and economic development. My role as the Assistant Commissioner for Immigrant and Refugee Affairs is central...
Tech and philanthropic leaders launch collective impact initiative to work with afterschool programs in Minnesota and nationwide to increase diversity and equity in science, technology, engineering and math Minneapolis, Minnesota – Sept. 16, 2020 – The STEM Next Opportunity Fund today announced a multi-year grant to Ignite Afterschool as part of the Million Girls Moonshot. The Intel Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation have joined STEM Next Opportunity Fund and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to launch the Million Girls...
PHILADELPHIA (September 16, 2020) -- The Jefferson Headache Center in partnership with Ctrl M Health announced today the launch of a first of its kind innovative digital health and wellness platform for those who live with headache and migraine. Over the past year, the Headache Center, led by Director Dr. Stephen D. Silberstein, Professor, Department of Neurology, and Dr. William B. Young, Professor, Department of Neurology, shared its clinical expertise as well as its medical protocols, in Ctrl M Health’s design of an integrative program to...
Santa Ynez Valley schools have received a boost to help meet the unique challenges of distance learning, courtesy of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Foundation. The foundation announced Tuesday that it has delivered $100,000 to local schools. The funds are aimed at helping educators meet the high-tech needs and the various challenges that remote learning has presented to start the 2020-21 school year. The Remote Learning Resources grants were determined based on each school's expressed...
While the US waits for one or more COVID-19 vaccines to win approval from the Food and Drug Administration, the federal government released an outline Wednesday detailing how it intends to make those drugs available so that "every American who wants to receive a COVID-19 vaccine can receive one." The joint report to Congress (PDF) from the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense indicates that vaccines will be administered "with the goal of no upfront costs to providers and no out-of-pocket cost to the vaccine...
More than 40% of Black, Latino, and Native American households reported in a new poll that they ran through their savings to get by during the COVID-19 pandemic. The numbers underscore a dire economic reality that might exacerbate the country’s stark racial wealth disparities. An NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll released Wednesday revealed that 46% of Latino households had reported using up all or most of their savings at some point during the pandemic, while 41% of Black and Native American...
The Thurston County Coroner's Office has determined the death of a 28-year-old Native American man who became unresponsive three days after he was booked into the Nisqually jail, then died in an Olympia hospital, was a homicide. The Coroner's Office finished its nearly 9-month investigation into the death of Joseph Cagey, who was a member of the Lummi Nation and who family members say had been living on the tribe's reservation west of Bellingham, last week. Lummi Tribal Police arrested Cagey on...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new $117 billion budget signed last April, has set in place some questionable measures. Amongst other things, it banned flavoured vaping products and has abandoned the proposal to legalize marijuana products. But while most vape business owners were panicking, Taobi Silva did not. As a member of the Shinnecock Nation, the 1,500-person tribe outside of South Hampton, Long Island, he knew he had a unique opportunity. An article on Filter points out that members of a native tribe can conduct business on their sovereign land,...