With the holiday season over and a new year upon us, the world is still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed the lives of over 1.8 million people (per Johns Hopkins University & Medicine) and shows no sign of slowing down. Disturbed s David Draiman has underscored the devastating impact of the virus in an interview with comedian Don Jamieson, relaying that a family friend lost seven family members in just one week due to COVID-19.
The interview originally aired July 21, but was just recently uploaded to YouTube in its entirety. During the
That Jamieson Show conversation (video below), Draiman was optimistic that fans will return to live experiences like never before once a vaccine is available and distributed (since this interview was conducted, two vaccines have been granted emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States).
COVID-19 in NC: State tops half-million total cases, 6,500 deaths
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A California federal court judge overseeing the case against disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has announced that the trial date will be pushed back by several months as the state, and the country, continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Davila, who is presiding over the San Jose-based wire fraud case against Holmes, said in court papers filed late last week that the one-time billionaire’s trial is now expected to begin on July 13, 2021 – four months later than the March date that had previously been set.
“The court has been vigilant in keeping informed as to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the nation and the state and in day to day life in the San Francisco bay area,” Davila wrote in court papers filed Dec. 18. “The court notes sadly, the impact on our lives is grim.”
Legal marijuana in North Carolina? Task force recommends state look to legalizing the drug, follow others leads
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Dec 16, 2020
HIGH COUNTRY â While much of the focus was on the U.S. presidential race in the 2020 General Election, voters in five states also approved the legalization of marijuana, bringing the total to 36 states that have legalized it for medical use, if not recreational.
Many states have gone through a step-by-step process toward legalization, starting with medicinal use and going up to regulated legalization. However, South Dakota went from illegal to totally legal in only one election.
North Carolinaâs legalization efforts have stopped at allowing CBD hemp, a low-to-no-THC form of the plant. In the past 10 years, the stateâs stance on the still federally illegal drug has gone from the norm to an outlier, with neighboring Virginia even moving for legalization. With an already more tolerating legal stance, Virg
Did Rhode Island spark surge of COVID cases in CT?
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Connecticut has outpaced the rest of the nation on average in new COVID-19 cases per capita in the past week, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The state has also surpassed New Jersey, New York and all of the New England states except Rhode Island.
Connecticut also ranks slightly higher than the nation on average for the amount of deaths per capita in the last seven days again outpacing the northeast states except Rhode Island.
Connecticut’s eastern neighbor and the smallest state by land mass had the third-highest number of new cases per 100,000 people over a one-week span as of Tuesday. Rhode Island had been leading the nation until it was recently surpassed by Tennessee and Oklahoma, according to the CDC’s data.
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