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Bay Area isn't going as far as New York in quarantining travelers to stem COVID-19 Susanne Rust © Provided by The LA Times Travelers drag luggage while walking out of a terminal Tuesday at San Francisco International Airport. (Jeff Chiu / Associated Press) San Francisco and Santa Clara are California's only two counties that have enacted orders requiring travelers to quarantine on arriving in their jurisdictions. But unlike in New York state, it is unclear whether authorities are doing much to publicize or enforce the order. Kristen Green, a radiologic technologist at Kaise...

Family travels 3,000 miles to Phoenix for son's heart transplant “That’s the last thing you want hear. That there’s nothing else you can do except for a transplant.” Author: Josh Sanders (KPNX) Updated: 6:25 PM MST December 23, 2020 PHOENIX — Imagine traveling thousands of miles to save your child’s life. That’s what a family from Puerto Rico did after finding out their then 5-year-old son needed a heart transplant.  Shortly before their son Gustavo’s 6th birthday, Jose and Diana Acevedo learned that without a heart transplant he would not surv...

By Cullen Browder, WRAl anchor/reporter Raleigh, N.C. — The pandemic created extra lessons for college students and their institutions – not all of them positive. Megan Maiorano, a civil engineering major at N.C. State, said she's trying to make the most of a disappointing senior year. "Everyone I know is just trying to ride it out and get to the finish line," Maiorano said. A national report shows enrollment at four-year colleges was off by about 2 percent this fall from a year ago. Spokespeople at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State said enrollment at both campuses actually increased fro...

Advertisement United Airlines is now requiring passengers boarding flights originating in the U.K. to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken no later than 72 hours prior to departure, said Annabelle Cottee, United Airlines spokeswoman. There is one daily nonstop flight from the London Heathrow to San Francisco. That flight will be suspended starting Jan. 1, a decision that was made by the flight’s carrier, United Airlines, before news of the variant form of the virus had been reported. United Airlines passengers wait in line to register at the COVID-19 rapid testing site at San Franci...

Despite health warnings, holiday travel has already set a record for busiest weekend of the pandemic Shannon McMahon © David Joles/Star Tribune/AP Holiday travelers crowd the ticketing area of Terminal 1 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Nov. 25. Pre-Christmas air travel surpassed 1 million daily passengers nationwide for three consecutive days this weekend — breaking the record for most weekend travelers of the pandemic and outpacing Thanksgiving numbers that assumed that title and worried health experts last month. The 3.2 million passengers screened Fr...