Published CommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Viruses are always mutating and taking on new forms, and thousands of variants of the coronavirus have been identified. But several, including variants first found in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil and India, are highly transmissible and have sparked concerns that vaccines may be less effective against them.AdvertisementWhere and when was it discovered?This variant was first in southern Africa, where...…Published CommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Viruses are always mutating and taking on new forms, and thousands of variants of the coronavirus have been identified. But several, including variants first found in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil and India, are highly transmissible and have sparked concerns that vaccines may be less effective against them.AdvertisementWhere and when was it discovered?This variant was first in southern Africa, where...WW…

Gift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Please NoteThe Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. The United States hit an all-time high in new coronavirus cases on Friday, surpassing the previous mark set during a summer surge across the Sun Belt. Friday’s tally of new U.S. cases — the first above 80,000 — comes as covid-19 hospitalizations are soaring across the country; according to data tracked by The Washington Post, the...…Gift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Please NoteThe Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. The United States hit an all-time high in new coronavirus cases on Friday, surpassing the previous mark set during a summer surge across the Sun Belt. Friday’s tally of new U.S. cases — the first above 80,000 — comes as covid-19 hospitalizations are soaring across the country; according to data tracked by The Washington Post, the...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareThe mayor of Portland, Ore., asked residents for help Friday in putting an end to violent protests that have erupted in recent weeks — and periodically since last summer — and urged the public to stand together and “take the city back.”“They want to burn, they want to bash, they want to intimidate, they want to assault,” Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) after announcing that the city would extend its state of emergency through Monday after a string of demonstrations that have resulted in several businesses being vandalized and public...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareThe mayor of Portland, Ore., asked residents for help Friday in putting an end to violent protests that have erupted in recent weeks — and periodically since last summer — and urged the public to stand together and “take the city back.”“They want to burn, they want to bash, they want to intimidate, they want to assault,” Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) after announcing that the city would extend its state of emergency through Monday after a string of demonstrations that have resulted in several businesses being vandalized and public...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareThe judge in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday admonished politicians for making what he called irresponsible and disrespectful comments about the case as jurors were sent to deliberate on a case that has already rattled the country.Judge Peter A. Cahill’s comments were sparked by Rep. Maxine Waters’s (D-Calif.) remarks over the weekend during a rally at Brooklyn Center, Minn., where she said that if Chauvin was found not guilty in George Floyd’s death, protesters should stay on the...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareThe judge in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday admonished politicians for making what he called irresponsible and disrespectful comments about the case as jurors were sent to deliberate on a case that has already rattled the country.Judge Peter A. Cahill’s comments were sparked by Rep. Maxine Waters’s (D-Calif.) remarks over the weekend during a rally at Brooklyn Center, Minn., where she said that if Chauvin was found not guilty in George Floyd’s death, protesters should stay on the...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareIt will go down in history as one of the most dumbfounding moments of the Trump administration as America — and the world — watched the president of the United States suggest the possibility of injecting disinfectant into people to “knock out” the coronavirus as the pandemic raged across the nation, taking hundreds of thousands of lives.The former response coordinator in the Trump White House, Deborah Birx, who sat silently as the president made those remarks last year during a news conference, said in an interview with...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareIt will go down in history as one of the most dumbfounding moments of the Trump administration as America — and the world — watched the president of the United States suggest the possibility of injecting disinfectant into people to “knock out” the coronavirus as the pandemic raged across the nation, taking hundreds of thousands of lives.The former response coordinator in the Trump White House, Deborah Birx, who sat silently as the president made those remarks last year during a news conference, said in an interview with...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareThey looked like images taken out of a horror movie. Only they were not.One showed a doctor posing with a large human tissue in his hand while the patient lay on the operating table.In another, a physician holds an organ that was surgically removed.According to the , the photographs were shared on Instagram last week by a group of medical residents at Spectrum Health, in Grand Rapids, Mich., who asked the public to guess how much an unidentified organ weighed in a game they equated to ‘Price is Right.’“The other game we...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareThey looked like images taken out of a horror movie. Only they were not.One showed a doctor posing with a large human tissue in his hand while the patient lay on the operating table.In another, a physician holds an organ that was surgically removed.According to the , the photographs were shared on Instagram last week by a group of medical residents at Spectrum Health, in Grand Rapids, Mich., who asked the public to guess how much an unidentified organ weighed in a game they equated to ‘Price is Right.’“The other game we...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareIowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Friday that she will lift coronavirus restrictions, including the use of masks, social distancing and limitations on social gatherings, yet at least four cities in the state have defied the new and said they will keep their own measures in place, arguing that this is not the time to “let the guard down.”Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie (D) announced Saturday that the city’s mask mandate will remain and criticized Reynolds’s “confusing” decision, saying it “can’t be rationalized with the...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareIowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Friday that she will lift coronavirus restrictions, including the use of masks, social distancing and limitations on social gatherings, yet at least four cities in the state have defied the new and said they will keep their own measures in place, arguing that this is not the time to “let the guard down.”Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie (D) announced Saturday that the city’s mask mandate will remain and criticized Reynolds’s “confusing” decision, saying it “can’t be rationalized with the...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareHer brother couldn’t make it to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, but she worried that he would join a new insurrection — that one day “he would be one of the people on TV.”The woman in her 30s asked her family to make plans, she said, hoping to keep her brother busy. Then she contacted a nonprofit group called Parents for Peace that seeks to pull people back from extremism, hoping to “save” him, after years of dismay at his hatred of Muslims and Mexicans and now alarm at his anger over the presidential election.Dissecting her...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareHer brother couldn’t make it to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, but she worried that he would join a new insurrection — that one day “he would be one of the people on TV.”The woman in her 30s asked her family to make plans, she said, hoping to keep her brother busy. Then she contacted a nonprofit group called Parents for Peace that seeks to pull people back from extremism, hoping to “save” him, after years of dismay at his hatred of Muslims and Mexicans and now alarm at his anger over the presidential election.Dissecting her...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTexas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration in Brazoria County on Sunday after the discovery in the local water supply system of an amoeba that can cause a rare and deadly infection of the brain.“The state of Texas is taking swift action to respond to the situation and support the communities whose water systems have been impacted by this ameba,” Abbott (R) in a Sunday. “I urge Texans in Lake Jackson to follow the guidance of local officials and take the appropriate precautions to protect their health and safety...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTexas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration in Brazoria County on Sunday after the discovery in the local water supply system of an amoeba that can cause a rare and deadly infection of the brain.“The state of Texas is taking swift action to respond to the situation and support the communities whose water systems have been impacted by this ameba,” Abbott (R) in a Sunday. “I urge Texans in Lake Jackson to follow the guidance of local officials and take the appropriate precautions to protect their health and safety...WW…