âI Should Have Known Betterâ
Or perhaps not. We are navigating a new world of travel where planning for the unpredictable, more than ever, is part of the itinerary.
Now vaccinated, Wendy Perrin nevertheless continues to try to stay out of convenience stores attached to gas stations, calling them âthe scariest places on the highway.â Credit.Tom Sibley for The New York Times
By Julie Besonen
May 13, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Tammy Barbieâs first family trip since the onset of the pandemic began with a strategic error.
Rushing to get to the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport for a flight to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, the former flight attendant didnât have time to pack food for herself, her mother, her husband and their three daughters. Certainly they could purchase something, she assumed, to ward away anyoneâs hunger pains. But the family found next to nothing open at the airport, and on board, only meager bags of bottled water, almonds and cookies were dol
Published: May 11, 2021 By BioSpace Editorial Staff
News information is not all-inclusive and updates are published once a week on Tuesdays.
Here s a look at some of the top COVID-19 news over the past week.
WHO Declares India’s Dual-Variant
The World Health Organization (WHO) reclassified the so-called “double mutant” variant spreading in India as a “variant of concern,” which indicates it has become a global health threat. The variant is known as B.1.617 and appears to spread more easily than the wildtype Wuhan strain.
Non-hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Have Low Risk of Serious Long-Term Effects
A study published in
The Lancet Infectious Diseasesfound that non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients are at low risk of serious long-term effects. However, the authors noted that “increases in visits to general practitioners and outpatient hospital visits could indicate COVID-19 sequelae.” The study was a population-based cohort investigation using patient a
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President Joe Biden is delivering on his campaign promise to govern without Donald Trump s freewheeling antics, opting for scripted remarks over the former president s off-the-cuff tweets and frequent sparring sessions with reporters.
While Trump s critics may appreciate the change of tone and pace, Biden needs to capture the public s attention if he wants to encourage vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves or gin up support for his proposals to spend trillions of dollars on infrastructure projects and liberal social welfare programs.
Biden is in the middle of a countrywide Back on Track tour to build momentum around his American Jobs and Families plans, estimated to cost $4 trillion. But at a stop in Virginia this week, his rambling address did little more than provide fodder for Republican operatives to mock him for mistakenly saying anybody making less than $400,000 a year would not pay a single penny in taxes under his proposals. Th
Brainwashing students to view themselves as “white supremacists.” Tue May 4, 2021 The David Horowitz Freedom Center is exposing prestigious American campuses as the “Top Ten Most Racist Colleges and Universities” for enacting policies and programs that are allegedly “anti-racist” but which in reality promote racial discrimination and a return to Jim Crow. A report and video on the University of Minnesota, #7 on our list, follows below. The full report on the Top Ten Most Racist Colleges and Universities may be read at https://toptenracistuniversities.org/.
#7: University of Minnesota In an effort to “deconstruct and decentralize whiteness,” the University of Minnesota’s Center for Practice Transformation and School of Social Work recently presented a “12-step program” to make white students aware of their innate “white supremacy.” This allegedly “anti-racist” course is the ultimate apotheosis of racism, telling whites th
Created: May 03, 2021 04:15 PM
Mary Maier says she first noticed the invaders in the garden on the Loring Greenway last summer. They are quick, they wiggle, they jump, she said. They are little pests.
She is talking about jumping worms, an invasive species that erodes the soil and destroys root systems, putting plants, flowers and trees in jeopardy. You spend a lot of time working in the gardens, you don t want a little worm to ruin all your efforts, Maier said.
Last fall there were more than 200 cases of jumping worms in the metro area. This spring, eggs are just beginning to hatch. Lee Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology says he expects jumping worm numbers to grow.