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As CDC weighs coronavirus testing requirement for domestic flights, industry voices fierce opposition Lori Aratani, Michael Laris, Ian Duncan U.S. public health officials are weighing whether to require domestic travelers to show proof of a negative coronavirus test before boarding their flights, drawing fierce opposition from airlines, labor unions and lawmakers but underscoring the severity of the pandemic and difficult trade-offs involved with trying to subdue it. In an interview broadcast Sunday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told Axios on HBO there is an �...

Northam, Hogan, Bowser and others in their own words Washington Post Staff Here’s what regional leaders had to say about the coronavirus vaccine rollout over the past several weeks. © Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post Gov. Larry Hogan receives the Moderna vaccine on Jan. 18. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R): On the need to move quickly: “This a race between vaccinations and variants. We don’t want to have them sitting on the shelves not being used. . . . We’ve got to get more needles in more arms faster. But, we also don’t want to have too many peo...

Northam, Hogan, Bowser and others in their own words Washington Post Staff Here’s what regional leaders had to say about the coronavirus vaccine rollout over the past several weeks. © Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post Gov. Larry Hogan receives the Moderna vaccine on Jan. 18. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R): On the need to move quickly: “This a race between vaccinations and variants. We don’t want to have them sitting on the shelves not being used. . . . We’ve got to get more needles in more arms faster. But, we also don’t want to have too many peo...

Applications surge after big-name colleges halt SAT and ACT testing rules Nick Anderson © Julia Rendleman/The Washington Post People wearing masks walk across the Lawn at the University of Virginia on Sept. 7, 2020 The University of Virginia drew a record 48,000 applications for the next class in Charlottesville — about 15 percent more than the year before. Freshman applications to the University of California at Berkeley crossed into six figures for the first time, totaling more than 112,000, up 28 percent. Harvard University’s total spiked to an all-time high o...

Georgetown University staff resist after being asked to take new public health roles or unpaid leave Lauren Lumpkin Staff at Georgetown University are railing against a program that asks them to temporarily take on health-related roles during the pandemic — such as conducting wellness screenings, registering visitors to campus or security — or go on unpaid leave. It comes as the school has designed a spring semester that will include about 200 hybrid courses, increased access to campus facilities and brought twice as many residential students to campus than in the fal...