Was a three-week trip to New Orleans for work or vacation? Both.
Andrea Sachs, The Washington Post
Feb. 19, 2021
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1of8The city canceled Mardi Gras parades and floats. In response, thousands of homes around the city installed artful house floats with such themes as Zydeco.Photo by Andrea Sachs for The Washington Post.Show MoreShow Less
2of8Mac is all packed up and ready to return to Washington after a three-week workcation in New Orleans.Photo by Andrea Sachs for The Washington Post.Show MoreShow Less
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4of8Skateboarders practice at Crescent Park, a 1.4-mile urban linear park along the Mississippi River in New Orleans.Photo by Andrea Sachs for The Washington Post.Show MoreShow Less
Biden falsely downplays dangers of COVID-19 in schools
Speaking at a CNN town hall event in Milwaukee on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden made a series of patently false statements about the threat posed by COVID-19 to children and their parents. Biden’s false claims were aimed at convincing educators, students and parents to resume in-person learning, even though schools are major vectors for the spread of COVID-19.
In a chilling exchange with a second grade student rightly concerned that she might catch COVID-19 and possibly infect her parents, Biden flatly lied, stating, “You’re not likely to be able to be exposed to something and spread it to mommy or daddy.”
Wearing a mask is one of the most common recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help slow the spread of COVID-19 but, at WVU, not all
Feb 18, 2021 12:01 AM EDT
In the first six months of 2020, life expectancy in the United States dropped by a full year, according to new federal data. Released Thursday, these latest figures offer a staggering glimpse at the cost of the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Elizabeth Arias, a demographer with the National Center for Health Statistics who served as the report’s lead author.
Even the loss or gain of two months of life expectancy in a single year is enough to get the attention of health statisticians who study how Americans live and die.
“This one-year decline in the total population is quite large,” Arias said.