November 10, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks with supporters at a community event at Sun City MacDonald Ranch in Henderson, Nevada, in February 2020. (Photo: By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America - Joe Biden, CC BY-SA 2.0)
The American public has had its say and for the first time in a generation denied a sitting president a second term.
President Donald Trump’s tenure lasted just four years, but in that time he dragged policy on an array of key issues in a dramatic new direction.
Three scholars discuss what a Biden presidency may have in store in three key areas: race, the Supreme Court and foreign policy.
Everyone should wear face masks inside their own home if family members have Covid symptoms or test positive, European health chiefs have said.
People in the same household as someone who has tested positive or has a fever, cough or loss of taste and smell have been advised to wear masks inside their homes by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Both the person who is sick and everyone else who lives with them should wear a mask or face covering as much as possible, the ECDC said.
The EU agency released a technical report looking into how useful face masks are in preventing the spread of coronavirus.
Boyd Technologies of Lee combats COVID by making surgical masks
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
Posted Feb 15, 2021
A member of the staff at Boyd Technologies in Lee performs what the company calls “hand building” on surgical mask prototypes for testing purposes. (Linnea Morrison photo)
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LEE As hospitals were inundated with COVID-19 patients and medical equipment was in short supply, it wasn’t just health care workers who were drafted as soldiers in the pandemic. Massachusetts manufacturers were also activated.
Boyd Technologies, a medical device contract development and manufacturing firm in Lee, started repurposing its in-house equipment to produce personal protective equipment (PPE) like surgical masks and N95 respirators.
Athlete of the Week: Megan Milkowich
Athlete of the Week: Megan Milkowich By Mel Busler | February 15, 2021 at 8:07 AM EST - Updated February 15 at 8:07 AM
DEXTER, N.Y. (WWNY) - This school year, we are honoring senior student athletes who have put together impressive resumes in their varsity careers.
This week, we honor a lacrosse player from General Brown who has put together an impressive resume for the Lions.
Megan Milkowich’s talents on the pitch earning her this week’s title.
In 2019, the last season that was held, this talented lacrosse player had 25 goals and 13 assists. She had 51 draw controls and 46 ground balls.
This week, a much anticipated fact-finding mission into the origins of Covid-19 returned from a month-long field visit to China. The team of scientists appointed by the World Health Organization is currently writing up their findings, which will be published in a summary report next week, with a full report expected to follow sometime after that. But on Tuesday, at a joint briefing with Chinese health officials, the teamâs leaders gave the world a sneak peek at what new information they had unearthed. In short, not much.
âDid we change dramatically the picture we had beforehand? I donât think so,â said Peter Ben Embarek, a zoonosis expert with the WHO who headed the investigation. Like a majority of scientists, the group still favors the idea that SARS-CoV-2 originated in animals before spilling into humans. âDid we improve our understanding? Did we add details to that story? Absolutely,â he continued.