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As the City of Denver pushes for a return to normal, the Cinco de Mayo Festival in Civic Center Park was canceled due to the pandemic for the second year in a row.
Adventureland Park in Altoona opens its 2021 season this Saturday. This first weekend is only for its silver, gold and platinum season pass holders.Katrina Dowler has been going to Adventureland since she was in elementary school.She is excited for the 2021 season. She thinks it is a step toward a return to normal."It's so fun," Dowler said. "I love the general rush of the roller coasters and stuff. Like, just getting to walk outside in the sun and just be around people again." Dowler is not alone.Kevin Baker will start his second season working at Adventureland and he can't wait to get...
University of Mississippi students take a class in Tad Smith Coliseum. With COVID-19 vaccinations on the rise and the number of positive virus cases falling, college campuses throughout Northeast Mississippi will likely return to traditional in-class courses this fall. In some cases, without masks, school officials say. KEVIN BAIN/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services/
As Vaccines Roll Out, Will Risky Behavior Increase? Mar. 4, 2021 -- With distribution of COVID-19 vaccines ramping up, and President Joe Biden promising all U.S. adults will be able to get inoculated by the end of May, many Americans are finally anticipating the end of the pandemic. But Arthur Caplan, PhD, a bioethicist at NYU Langone Medical Center, sees the beginning of a new potential hazard: the Peltzman effect. University of Chicago economist Sam Peltzman first described the phenomenon decades ago when he observed that increased safety regulations had no effect on the highway death toll....
News from the pandemic front is getting brighter lately. The average number of new infections of COVID-19 has fallen below 100,000 in the U.S. for the first time since November, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of deaths is decreasing sharply, too. In fits and starts, the national vaccine program is expanding. Is everybody happy to see a glimmer of light at the tunnel's end? Not quite. No one willed the pandemic and its widespread death and suffering into existence. Still, for some people, especially those with anxiety disorders but others as well, the prospect of returning t...