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NIAID / The Atlantic A few minutes before midnight on March 4, 2020, the two of us emailed every U.S. state and the District of Columbia with a simple question: How many people have been tested in your state, total, for the coronavirus? By then, about 150 people had been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United States, and 11 had died of the disease. Yet the CDC had stopped publicly reporting the number of Americans tested for the virus. Without that piece of data, the tally of cases was impossibl...

This article was published online on March 14, 2021. Last spring, early in the pandemic, the host of a radio food program called to ask whether I thought the lockdown would catapult women back to the 1950s. That sure looked likely: Families were home demanding three meals a day, and most of that food was coming from their own kitchens. I started wondering whether the pandemic would succeed where years of cajoling on the part of cookbook writers had failed. Maybe we really had been launched into...

Gator wins executive ticket for the second year in a row and gains further control of the Senate The party won 46 seats in Senate, and Change won three February 25, 2021 | 7:00am EST Wynton White (left) and Amy Nicholas (right), Change Partys candidates for Student Body president and treasurer, watch a live stream of the UF Student Government election results on Wednesday, February 24, 2021. Gator Party won the executive ticket. ...

Students decide on new leadership and senators during Spring SG elections Over 1,000 students cast ballots on the first day of voting Early voting for Student Government elections began Monday, Sept. 28 in the Reitz Union. Photo by Lianna Hubbard | The Independent Florida Alligator The ...

The Atlantic Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial. February 11, 2021 Chip Somodevilla / Getty Thrilling, without a single boring day: That’s how I’d describe my four years as an enemy of the people, a lanyard-wearing member of the “ I miss it already. I miss it terribly, even if I miss little else about the past four years. Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be ...

The Atlantic The Colleges That Took the Pandemic Seriously Many colleges and universities have figured out how to diagnose their populations and control outbreaks—and offer a vision for more normal life until the vaccine is available to all. January 31, 2021 A COVID-19 testing center at Colby College in Waterville, MaineTristan Spinski / The New York Times / Redux Until vaccines against COVID-19 are available to all, the public will need two things: a reason for hope and a vision of how to li...

Michael Ciaglo / Getty Last spring and summer, when a COVID-19 vaccine was only a glimmer of hope on the horizon, scientists warned in their careful way that vaccines might not live up to the public’s high expectations. The FDA said a vaccine needed to be just 50 percent effective. The most important thing, scientists told me, was that the vaccines at least protect against severe illness. Then, in the fall, data from the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine trials demonstrated 95 percent and 94 percent...

The Atlantic Investigate Him A criminal investigation probing the president’s actions leading up to the January 6 attack on the Capitol is more than warranted. January 13, 2021 Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Much of the discussion right now about how to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his role in the attack on the Capitol last week is focused on impeachment and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. But criminal accountability is another option, and a criminal investigation is warranted...

elk says: Bring on those vaccinations! Some of you keep bragging about South Dakota’s low death rate from Covid. Last Spring, the northeast states were hit hard with a virus they didn’t know anything about. They had horrific numbers. But, even taking that into consideration, our numbers are still bad. We have 1 out of 371 residents in the US. Multiply 371 by our deaths (1,301) and you get 482,000. If the rest of the country had as many deaths as we’ve had, there would be 174,000 more fa...

Created: December 16, 2020 07:11 PM (ABC 6 News) - 20 states in the United States ban the practice of conversion therapy, and Minnesota is not part of that list. Minnesota, along with other states like Wisconsin, the Dakotas, and Iowa, have no statewide ban for conversion therapy. Within Minnesota, there are seven cities, as well as one county that has either instituted their bans, called for a statewide ban, or both. Olmsted County joined that list on Tuesday. Conversion Therapy is ...