As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the country, authorities in New York City said they found nearly 400 people partying in a midtown Manhattan building early Saturday morning. The event was at least the third party bust in the city within a week. Four people who organized the illegal event were charged with violating […]
This article is published in partnership with Newsy. Worried officials in Sullivan County, Tennessee, called a press conference on July 10 to address the county’s spiking number of COVID-19 cases. “Only this week have we seen those double-digit increases,” said Mayor Richard Venable, who instituted a mask mandate to try to slow the spread. “We […]
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Above: Jonathan White with his family. Illustration: HuffPost; Photos: Family Handout/Getty Images Jonathan White, a 45-year-old man incarcerated at a state prison in Ohio, gazed out at the group of people who had come to collect their lunch from the chow hall. As part of the effort to contain the spread of COVID-19, people were sent […]
Illustrations by Mikyung Lee for HuffPost Above: When coronavirus came to Arkansas, Marsha Boss, a longtime abortion opponent and member of the board of health, got to work. On the first day of April, Marsha Boss, a 68-year-old Catholic pharmacist, uploaded a photo to Facebook. Snapped on a sunny day, it showed the parking lot […]
We’re arguably spending more time indoors than ever during the coronavirus pandemic. And with summer coming, we’re likely going to seek reprieve from the heat with air conditioning and fans while we’re in the confines of our walls. So does all this put us at a higher risk for contracting COVID-19? What’s the deal with […]
Inmates locked up in a complex that houses some of the federal prison system’s most medically vulnerable prisoners say decrepit conditions and failed social distancing policies have allowed COVID-19 to spread throughout the facility in an outbreak that has already claimed the lives of nine men. A new class action lawsuit filed on behalf of […]
WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will issue an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration to the United States to protect U.S. workers amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. “It would be wrong and unjust for Americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new […]
For almost a week, Kelvin Heredia has had trouble breathing. Last Sunday, he was transferred to a building on Rikers Island that is now being used to test incarcerated men for the coronavirus. The 24-year-old has asthma, and he’s suffering from chest pains and panic attacks that block off his airways. He doesn’t have an […]
Kerry Van Der Merwe has sunken chest syndrome, a rare medical condition that leaves her struggling to breathe. In many cases the syndrome – a malformation of the chest wall caused by the breastbone sinking inwards – is seen as a cosmetic problem that doesn’t warrant publicly funded surgery. Ms Van Der Merwe has been […]
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By Alayna Alvarez As summer scorchers draw closer, more Americans will be cranking up their air conditioners, desperate for swaths of cool air. But the comfort comes with an environmental cost — one a growing number of states are trying to reduce by phasing out the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs. HFCs, which are used […]