Coronavirus Drifts Through The Air In Microscopic Droplets – Here’s The Science Of Infectious Aerosols
NEW YORK (THE CONVERSATION/AP) During the 1970s when I was growing up in Southern California, the air was so polluted that I was regularly sent home from high school to “shelter in...
Doctors Struggle To Stay True To Science But Not Cross Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s becoming a kind of daily ritual: President Donald Trump and a phalanx of doctors file into the White House briefing room each evening to discuss the coronavi...
Chareidim Flock To Internet During Coronavirus Lockdown
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has caught the Chareidi public in Israel unawares. Until this point a large proportion of the public shunned the inte...
EPA Says Only Use Disinfectant On Surfaces
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is reminding people to only use disinfectant on surfaces.
The EPA issued the update after President Donald Trump suggested it mi...
Rabbi Chaim And Rabbi Gershon: Summer Zman Begins Sunday, 3 Full Sedarim By Phone
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — After the Israeli health ministry refused to allow yeshivos to open in any format, the leaders of the Lithuanian community published a letter for all yeshiva ...
Democrats Expect ‘In-Person Convention,’ Party Chairman Says
ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Party chairman Tom Perez said Thursday that he expects to hold an "in-person convention” in Milwaukee to nominate Joe Biden for president, though he didn'...
Somber Congress Delivers Nearly $500B More In Virus Aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress delivered a nearly $500 billion infusion of coronavirus spending Thursday, rushing new relief to employers and hospitals buckling under the strain of a p...
Despite Risks, Auto Workers Step Up To Make Medical Gear
DETROIT (AP) — Cindy Parkhurst could have stayed home collecting most of her pay while the Ford plant where she normally works remains closed due to coronavirus fears.
Instead, ...
Michael Bloomberg Puts Up $10 Million To Fund Coronavirus Contact Tracing Program
NEW YORK (JTA) — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will fund a plan to help develop and implement a regional contact tracing program in the effort to prevent the spread ...
Rabbi Yeshayahu Haber, Who Founded “Gift Of Life” For Kidney Donations, Passes Away From Coronavirus
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yeshayahu Haber, the Chareidi rabbi who founded of the "Gift of Life" (Matnat Chaim) association for kidney donations, has passed away at the age of 55 ...
Outbreak Mutates Retail; More Baking, Less Gum For Hershey
NEW YORK (AP) - The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Thursday related to the global economy,...
AP-Norc Poll: Few Americans Trust Trump’s Info On Pandemic
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has made himself the daily spokesman for the nation’s coronavirus response. Yet few Americans regularly look to or trust Trump as a source ...
Legislator Aaron Wieder: Rockland County Needs To Release Better COVID-19 Data
ROCKLAND COUNTY (VINnews) — Rockland County Legislator Aron Wieder wants additional COVID-19 data to be immediately released to facilitate a deeper understanding of the local impac...
Video: Coronavirus Patients Open Yeshiva At Tiberias Hotel
TIBERIAS (VINnews) — Coronavirus patients in Israel are either transferred to hospital (if they require treatment), left at home (if they have a place to stay in isolation) or if t...
EU: Malaria Drugs Used For Virus Could Cause Side Effects
LONDON (AP) — The European Union's medicines regulator on Thursday warned countries that malaria drugs being used experimentally to treat the new coronavirus have potentially serio...
Elizabeth Warren’s Oldest Brother Dies Of Coronavirus
BOSTON (AP) — The oldest brother of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Donald Reed Herring, has died from the coronavirus, the Massachusetts senator said Thursday.
The former Democratic pre...
Governor: Antibody Survey Shows Wide Exposure To Virus In NY
NEW YORK (AP) — More evidence is emerging that far more New Yorkers have had the coronavirus than the number confirmed by lab tests, officials said Thursday.
A state survey of a...
Some Governors Are Letting Houses Of Worship Reopen. Synagogues Aren’t Going For It.
ATLANTA (JTA) — The road to reopening for houses of worship has been paved in a handful of states, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to kill more than 1,500 Americans a da...
‘We’ve Been Ignored’: Nursing Homes Plead For More Testing
NEW YORK (AP) — After two months and more than 10,000 deaths that have made the nation’s nursing homes some of the most terrifying places to be during the coronavirus crisis, most ...
Health Official: 1 Million In NYC Possibly Exposed To Virus
NEW YORK (AP) — As many as 1 million people in New York City may have been exposed to the coronavirus, the city's health commissioner said Thursday.
More than 142,000 people in ...