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As the City of Denver pushes for a return to normal, the Cinco de Mayo Festival in Civic Center Park was canceled due to the pandemic for the second year in a row.

Adventureland Park in Altoona opens its 2021 season this Saturday. This first weekend is only for its silver, gold and platinum season pass holders.Katrina Dowler has been going to Adventureland since she was in elementary school.She is excited for the 2021 season. She thinks it is a step toward a return to normal."Its so fun," Dowler said. "I love the general rush of the roller coasters and stuff. Like, just getting to walk outside in the sun and just be around people again." Dowler is n...

University of Mississippi students take a class in Tad Smith Coliseum. With COVID-19 vaccinations on the rise and the number of positive virus cases falling, college campuses throughout Northeast Mississippi will likely return to traditional in-class courses this fall. In some cases, without masks, school officials say. KEVIN BAIN/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services/

As Vaccines Roll Out, Will Risky Behavior Increase? Mar. 4, 2021 -- With distribution of COVID-19 vaccines ramping up, and President Joe Biden promising all U.S. adults will be able to get inoculated by the end of May, many Americans are finally anticipating the end of the pandemic. But Arthur Caplan, PhD, a bioethicist at NYU Langone Medical Center, sees the beginning of a new potential hazard: the Peltzman effect. University of Chicago economist Sam Peltzman first described the phenomenon dec...

News from the pandemic front is getting brighter lately. The average number of new infections of COVID-19 has fallen below 100,000 in the U.S. for the first time since November, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of deaths is decreasing sharply, too. In fits and starts, the national vaccine program is expanding. Is everybody happy to see a glimmer of light at the tunnels end? Not quite. No one willed the pandemic and its widespread death and suffering into existence. Still, for s...

Doctors say some precautions, like mask-wearing, should continue even after loved ones are vaccinated.

. A popular Facebook and blog post by conservative radio host Buck Sexton claims scientific research indicates life should return to normal now despite the persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Here’s what the science tells anyone who is being honest about it: open the schools, stop wearing masks outside, and everyone at low risk should start living normal lives. Not next fall, or next year — now,” reads the blog post, posted to Facebook on Feb. 8. The post was flagged as part of Faceb...

Normal life will return after the novel coronavirus pandemic but it is some way away and will depend on people sticking to lockdown rules and the mass rollout of the vaccines, the British government's chief medical adviser said on Monday. Chris Whitty told the BBC that the United Kingdom was currently at the worst point in the pandemic and that the death toll of 81,431 was "absolutely appalling". Asked if life would ever return to normal, Whitty said: "I am confident we wil...