Dr. Fauci To Orthodox Jews: Ease Into Communal Prayer As Gatherings Become Possible
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Dr. Anthony Fauci, who directs infectious disease research for the federal government, advised Orthodox Jews to phase in communal prayer as local governments lif...
Conspiracy Theorists Spread Weird Ideas On Social Media, Frustrating Frontline Health Professionals
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The advent of an unknown, mysterious, earthshaking pandemic is such an unfathomable event that it has served as a fertile breeding ground for all sorts of cons...
Is Seltzer Water Healthy?
(THE CONVERSATION/AP/Rahel Mathews, Mississippi State University) My health conscious friends and colleagues tell me that they need an alternative to soda but plain water is too bo...
Maybe Coronavirus’s Aggressiveness Could Be Changed By Adding Or Subtracting Sugar Molecules From Its Spike Protein
NEW YORK (THE CONVERSATION/AP/Adam M. Brufsky University of Pittsburgh) Scientists have been tracking changes to the genetic makeup of the new coronavirus to better understand how ...
Trump Valet Has Coronavirus; President Again Tests Negative
WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the military serving as one of President Donald Trump’s valets has tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House said Thursday. It said Trump a...
New York City To Test 140,000 For Antibodies In Next Month
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City will test 140,000 people for coronavirus antibodies between next week and early June, de Blasio announced Thursday.
The antibody tests, which indic...
A Mysterious Illness Is Striking Children Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic – But Is It Kawasaki Disease?
NEW YORK (THE CONVERSATION/AP/Mark Hicar University at Buffalo, The State University of New York) Critically ill children have been ending up in intensive care units with shock-lik...
Lasers Could Speed Up Coronavirus Diagnostics
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First Yeshiva Returns To Studies After Israel’s Health Ministry Authorizes “Capsules” Of 26 Students
RISHON LETZION (VINnews) — The first yeshiva to return to the new post-corona study situation was the Ateres Shlomo yeshiva headed by Rav Shalom Ber Sorotzkin, who also runs kollel...
Lag B’Omer In Israel: Bonfires In Public Places And Courtyards- Prohibited, Special Lightings In Meron
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The upcoming holiday of Lag Ba'Omer has led to new arrangements both in Meron, which normally sees over half a million visitors but this year will only have a...
AP Exclusive: Admin Shelves CDC Guide To Reopening Country
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A set of detailed documents created by the nation's top disease investigators meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to r...
Taxis, Bikes & Sushi Robots Keep New Yorkers Fed, Protected
NEW YORK (AP) — Yellow cabs are lining up before sunrise at food distribution sites across the city.
Motorcyclists are buzzing over bridges, bags packed with masks and gowns.
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She Survived The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic And Covid-19. What Is This 107-year-old’s Secret?
WASHINGTON (JTA) - After Marilee Shapiro Asher was admitted to the hospital in mid-April sick with COVID-19, her daughter got a call from the doctor telling her she ought to get do...
3 Russian Doctors Fall From Hospital Windows During Pandemic
MOSCOW (AP) — Two Russian doctors have died and another was seriously injured in falls from hospital windows after they reportedly came under pressure over working conditions in th...
Yeshiva University Says Senior Staff Will Take Voluntary Pay Cuts To Weather Coronavirus
NEW YORK (JTA) — Yeshiva University said its senior officials will take voluntary pay cuts through the end of the year as the school struggles to weather the coronavirus crisis.
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Photos: In Latin America, Face Masks Become A Form Of Expression
HAVANA (AP) — Rarely used in Latin America outside hospitals before the coronavirus pandemic, face masks are now compulsory for subway riders, supermarket shoppers and even joggers...
Most New Covid-19 Patients In NY Not Working, Older: Survey
NEW YORK (AP) — The great majority of people being newly hospitalized with the coronavirus in New York are either retired or unemployed and were avoiding public transit, according ...
UN Leader Says 1B People With Disabilities Hard Hit By Virus
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.'s leader said Wednesday the world's 1 billion people living with disabilities are among the hardest hit by the coronavirus and called for them to hav...
Rosh Yeshiva of Ponovezh Explains the High Rate Of Chareidi Victims From COVID-19
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — In a live video clip transmitted from his home, Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, the Rosh Yeshiva of Ponovezh and the president of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah (Counci...
How The Coronavirus Is Hitting Jewish Communities Worldwide
NEW YORK (JTA) - The impact of the coronavirus on the Jewish world is a study in contrasts.
In Israel, where the total death toll as of Tuesday was 238 and the number of new dai...