Lassen County, a county of 30,000 people in the far reaches of Northern California, was one of the first places in the state to reopen in early May. But this week, it became the first to reverse course because of a resulting coronavirus outbreak. The county’s public health officer, Dr. Kenneth Korver, announced the decision […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden made his first public appearance in more than two months on Monday, breaking from his online-only campaign as social distancing measures begin to ease. Sporting a protective face mask with his wife, Jill Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee commemorated Memorial Day by visiting Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park. “Never […]
Disney’s assorted delights Since it will probably be a long while until families can visit any of the Mouse’s houses, the gastronomic geniuses behind some of the signature eats found throughout Disney’s many amusement parks have gone viral in a new Disney Parks blog series to turn fan kitchens into the happiest places on Earth. […]
Rick Bright, the ousted government scientist who oversaw the federal government’s search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines, fired back on Friday at President Donald Trump dismissing him as “a disgruntled employee who’s trying to help the Democrats win an election” in November. “I am not disgruntled,” Bright told CBS Evening News host Norah O’Donnell in his […]
The UK has become the first country in Europe to pass 30,000 coronavirus deaths, according to the latest government figures. A total of 30,076 people have now died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing positive for the virus, up by 649 from Tuesday. Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said they were “heartbreaking […]
I finally faced my baking fears—and made sourdough bread. It’s time that I come clean. I am a professionally trained pastry chef and I am afraid of making bread. It started in pastry school when, during an exam, I brought up my dense, flat whole wheat loaf up to my instructor, who took one bite […]
A Bureau of Indian Affairs employee is the first Interior Department staffer to die from COVID-19, according to internal numbers obtained by HuffPost. The death, reported Tuesday, comes as the number of cases at the Interior Department has continued to increase. The unnamed Bureau of Indian Affairs employee died in the night between April 23 […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected, the first of more than 800 people recruited for the study. Half will receive the Covid-19 vaccine, and half a control vaccine which protects against meningitis but not coronavirus. The […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California public health officials say local authorities should test people for the coronavirus in “high risk settings” even if they don’t have symptoms, a change aimed at health care workers, prisoners and the homeless. State officials believe the new guidelines are the first in the country to prioritize testing for people […]
Missouri on Tuesday became the first U.S. state to sue the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus, saying that China’s response to the outbreak that originated in Wuhan city led to devastating economic losses in the state. The civil lawsuit, filed in federal court by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, alleges negligence, among […]
A 5-year-old daughter of first-responder parents died Sunday of complications related to the coronavirus. Skylar Herbert, who complained to her parents about a headache earlier this month, was the youngest child in Michigan to lose her life to the virus, ABC News reported. She was surrounded by her family and a team of doctors who had been […]
Like a bad Santa, instead of delivering medical supplies, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been accused again of hijacking desperately needed protective gear for first responders and health care workers — this time in a Massachusetts town. Milford Fire Chief William Touhey Jr. accused the agency of commandeering 30,000 gowns as well as masks that […]
Photography by Roger May As the coronavirus pandemic spread throughout March, two communities in West Virginia — a state whose health outcomes rank among the worst in the nation — grappled with the news that they were about to lose their hospitals. Williamson Memorial Hospital, in the coalfields of southern West Virginia, announced plans to […]
The minute Caitlin, 30, an intensive care unit nurse in Brooklyn, wakes up, anxiety sets in. “You feel like you’re taking your chances and you’re risking things and working underneath conditions where you’re just very fearful,” she told HuffPost over the phone, asking that we not use her last name because she doesn’t want her […]
Hillary Clinton took a painfully pointed jab at President Donald Trump on Friday by mocking his “America First” campaign slogan as the U.S. tallied the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. “He did promise ‘America First,’” the former Democratic presidential nominee tweeted with a link to a New York Times story about the global […]