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Junior Lifeguards opens the way to a world others can only experience as spectators   Jessie Mangiagli, Pono Barnes, unifentified and Bryce Miller compete in the Junior Lifeguard Taplin Bell relay race at Torrance Beach in August, 2006. Photo by Patrick Fallon (PatrickFallonPhoto.com) by Kevin Cody Lifeguard Captain Jeff Horn had just left La Playita on 14th Street in Hermosa Beach with a breakfast burrito when I ran into him on The Strand. We know each other from paddleboarding. Horn was hea...

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Canada is unapologetic after boosting its vaccine programme via Covax - meant for poorer countries  Feb 05, 2021, 03:56 PM facebook email vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be administered to front-line health care workers under an emergency use authorization at a drive up vaccination site from Renown Health in Reno, Nevada on December 17, 2020. Patrick Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Canada is the only G7 country due to receive vaccines in e...

Labor Board Denies Amazon’s Bid to Block Voting by Mail in Unionization Election A federal labor board on Friday denied Amazon’s request to change an upcoming unionization vote from mail-in to in-person. An acting regional director for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided last month that the election for Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse should take place by mail because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Warehouse workers are poised to choose whether to join the Retail, Wholesal...

How Johnson & Johnsons Covid-19 vaccine compares to shots from Pfizer and Moderna  Feb 17, 2021, 10:00 AM facebook email vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be administered to front-line health care workers under an emergency use authorization at a drive up vaccination site from Renown Health in Reno, Nevada on December 17, 2020. Patrick Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Johnson & Johnsons Covid-19 vaccine was shown to be 66% effective at preve...

REUTERS/Patrick Fallon CLAMPING down on conspiracy theories may not help tackle extremist views online, instead it might cause them to proliferate. Shruti Phadke at the University of Washington in Seattle and her colleagues analysed 6 million posts from 60,000 people on social news aggregation site Reddit, as well as their memberships of user-created communities called subreddits, in an attempt to identify the roots of online radicalisation. All the people’s profiles were roughly similar, but...

US Small Business Administration Okays Additional COVID-19 Relief Loans Worth $35 Billion © REUTERS / BRYAN R SMITH Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202101271081892440-us-small-business-administration-okays-additional-covid-19-relief-loans-worth-35-billion/ Earlier this month, US President Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan to tackle the economic fallout from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The US Sma...

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:00 UTC Comment: Thats RTs choice of headline, not ours. You dont hack a court hearing. You publish it. Illegally perhaps, but its publishing information, not hacking it. The very fact that the two terms are synonymous (thanks to the highly publicized trial of Julian Assange, which amounts to a public torture session) whenever people in power feel threatened by public exposure sums up the absolute state of journalism these days. © AFP / Handout / Laura Cavanaugh / GETTY IMA...

The US just suffered its worst day ever for Covid-19 deaths. But this summer could be dramatically better CNN 1/14/2021 By Christina Maxouris and Holly Yan, CNN © Patrick Fallon/AFP/Getty Images A nurse wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) including a personal air purifying respirator (PAPR) looks through a door into a patients room in a Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Community Hospital on January 6, 2021 in the Willowbrook neighbo...

Covid-19 is now killing faster than at any point in 2020. And the new year just started.