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Watchdog Suggests Blame for 881 Secret Service Infections

Group says Trump put agents at risk of contracting the coronavirus

(Newser) - A nonprofit watchdog group has counted 881 Secret Service employees who tested positive for the coronavirus between March 1, 2020, and March 9, 2021. Of those, 477 belonged to the special agent division, whose duties include guarding the president, vice president, and their families, the Washington Post reports. In its...

Morgan Stanley to Bar the Unvaccinated

Only fully vaccinated people will be allowed inside New York offices starting July 12

(Newser) - Investment bank Morgan Stanley plans to lift mask and physical distancing requirements in its offices next month, but only after banning unvaccinated workers, clients, and visitors. The company told its workforce on Tuesday that employees and clients who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be unable to return to...

153 Houston Hospital Workers Are Out Over Vaccine Refusal

They either resigned or were terminated after judge dismissed lawsuit over the issue

(Newser) - More than 150 employees at a Houston hospital system who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine have been fired or resigned after a judge dismissed an employee lawsuit over the vaccine requirement, the AP reports. A spokesperson for Houston Methodist hospital system said 153 employees either resigned in the two-week...

Frontier Airlines Adds 'COVID Recovery' Fee

The $1.59 per customer charge covers COVID safety measures

(Newser) - Frontier Airlines, known for its fees, now has one more. The $1.59 per segment "COVID recovery charge" was added in May, a spokesperson tells USA Today . Per the airline's website , the fee "offsets added costs to Frontier due to implementing COVID-19 related measures, such as increased...

North Korea Gives All-Clear on New Cases

Experts are skeptical all 30,000 people tested were free of infection

(Newser) - North Korea has informed the World Health Organization that it tested more than 30,000 people for the coronavirus through June 10 but has yet to find a single infection. The WHO said in a monitoring report Tuesday that North Korea's testing figures included 733 people who were tested...

July 4 Goal on Vaccinations Won't Happen

Young people especially are bringing the national rates down

(Newser) - Vaccination reality has not kept up with President Biden's hopes for giving at least one dose to 70% of adults by July 4, so there will be a new goal. The target to be announced Tuesday will be at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine administered to 70% of...

US Daily COVID Deaths Hit Number Not Seen in 14 Months

They drop below 300 per day for first time since March 2020

(Newser) - For the first time since March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic was first declared, US daily COVID deaths have dipped below 300 per day. The average number of deaths per day is now 293, per Johns Hopkins data cited by the AP . That average had peaked at more than 3,...

Book: Trump Wanted to Send Infected Americans to Gitmo

'We import goods. We are not going to import a virus.'

(Newser) - In the early months of the pandemic last year, then-President Trump wanted to send Americans infected with COVID-19 to the same place his Republican predecessor sent enemy combatants, according to a new book from two Washington Post journalists. In Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic ...

Vaxxed and Ready to Relax? These US Cities Are Waiting

San Francisco tops LawnStarter's list of best places for the vaccinated to enjoy summer vacation

(Newser) - Summer is here, and if you're cautiously starting to reemerge from the pandemic, you may wonder if it's possible to contemplate some well-deserved holiday time. LawnStarter answers that question for the fully vaccinated with its ranking of US cities ideal for "vaxcations." The site looked at...

NYC Takes a 'Huge Step': 'No One Seems Anything but Ecstatic'

Foo Fighters rocked full-capacity Madison Square Garden in front of thousands of vaxxed attendees

(Newser) - Madison Square Garden was rocking again over the weekend, for the first time in 15 months. In what CBS New York calls a "huge step for New York's reopening," the New York City arena saw 15,000 or so fans show up for the Foo Fighters concert...

What's Set to Be 'Biggest-Selling Medicine Ever' Had Bumpy Start

Inside Pfizer's journey to manufacture its COVID-19 vaccine

(Newser) - Pfizer is a household name thanks to its COVID-19 vaccine, of which it expects to produce as many as 3 billion doses this year. That would translate into $26 billion in sales, which would make it the "biggest-selling medicine ever," reports Christopher Rowland in a lengthy piece for...

One Trend Is Emerging About Vaccinations
One Trend Is Emerging
About Vaccinations
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Jun 19, 2021 8:00 AM CDT

One Trend Is Emerging About Vaccinations

States where COVID cases are rising tend to have lower vaccination rates

(Newser) - The COVID news has been indisputably good across the US in the last few weeks, but USA Today reports that eight states are now seeing an increase in cases. And it appears the spikes have a common denominator: Of those eight states—Alabama, Arkansas, Hawaii, Missouri, Nevada, Texas, Utah, and...

Olympic Athletes to Receive 160K Condoms. There's One Problem

Games organizers forbid sex in Olympic Village amid pandemic, tell athletes to bring condoms home

(Newser) - If Olympic athletes preparing to descend on Tokyo for the delayed 2020 Games were thinking of getting some side action while they're there (i.e., having sex), they'll have to rethink those plans. Per the Guardian , the International Olympic Committee has laid down the law for those staying...

Writer With Long-Haul COVID Dies by Suicide
Writer With Long-Haul
COVID Dies by Suicide
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Jun 18, 2021 6:30 AM CDT

Writer With Long-Haul COVID Dies by Suicide

Heidi Ferrer struggled with symptoms for 13 months, husband says

(Newser) - Screenwriter Heidi Ferrer will not be recorded in official statistics as a coronavirus casualty, but her husband believes she would be alive today if she hadn't suffered from long-haul COVID. The 50-year-old Dawson's Creek writer died by suicide last month after 13 months spent struggling with symptoms, husband...

WHO Says Delta COVID Variant Is Spreading Rapidly

It's now in 80 countries

(Newser) - The World Health Organization is out with new numbers on the delta COVID variant, and they're moving in the wrong direction. The variant, which was first identified in India, is now in more than 80 countries around the globe, reports CNBC by way of the WHO, and it's...

Europe to Welcome Back US Tourists
Europe to Welcome
Back US Tourists
Jun 16, 2021 1:03 PM CDT

Europe to Welcome Back US Tourists

Ban on nonessential travel to lift Friday, with conditions set by individual countries

(Newser) - Good news for those planning a summer vacation in Europe: The European Union will add the United States to its safe travel list on Friday, lifting a ban on nonessential travelers that has been in place through much of the coronavirus pandemic, according to reports. Nonessential travel from the UK...

Royal Caribbean Takes '2 Steps Forward and One Step Back'

Line postpones sailings of new Odyssey of the Seas after 8 vaxxed crew members test positive

(Newser) - Royal Caribbean has been giving a hard push to promotions for its new Odyssey of the Seas ship , which the company vows will "turn wanderlust into reality." That reality will have to wait, however, as now it's "two steps forward and one step back," per...

COVID May Have Been in US by Christmas 2019
COVID May Have Been 
in US Earlier Than Thought
NEW STUDY
Jun 15, 2021 8:34 PM CDT

COVID May Have Been in US Earlier Than Thought

Blood samples reveal possible infections as early as Christmas 2019

(Newser) - A new analysis of blood samples from 24,000 Americans taken early last year is the latest and largest study to suggest that the coronavirus popped up in the US in December 2019—weeks before cases were first recognized by health officials. The analysis is not definitive, and some experts...

Lockdown Protesters Chase Journalist

Boris Johnson denounces harassment from crowd shouting 'traitor' at BBC reporter

(Newser) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has denounced protesters of lockdown measures who chased a BBC journalist Monday through London streets. People in the crowd confronted Nicholas Watt, who wore BBC identification, screaming "traitor," before he made a run through the crowd, around a police line, and beyond a...

COVID Death Toll Slows, but It Still Hits a Milestone

US has recorded more than 600K deaths

(Newser) - Vaccinations slowed its arrival, but an unwanted milestone got here just the same. The US has now recorded more than 600,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19, according to stats from Johns Hopkins . The silver lining is that deaths have plummeted since vaccinations went into wide circulation, with the daily average...

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