HealthDay -
February 5, 2021
Being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 is not a foolproof shield against reinfection, a small preliminary study warns. The finding stems from tracking nearly 3,250 young U.S. Marine recruits between May and October. Of those, 189 had previously tested positive for the SAR-CoV-2 virus. During the six-week study itself, 10% of those who had tested positive got reinfected.
ProPublica -
February 5, 2021
A key congressional panel launched an investigation this week into the wave of COVID-19 infections that killed hundreds of workers at meatpacking plants nationwide last year and highlighted longstanding hazards in the industry. …To date, more than 50,000 meatpacking workers have been infected and at least 250 have died, according to a ProPublica tally. … [The congressional investigation] will examine the role of JBS, Smithfield Foods and Tyson Foods, three of the nation’s largest meat companies...
Fox News -
February 5, 2021
England and Wales saw 5,460 deaths related to alcohol abuse in the first three quarters of 2020, which is a 16.4% increase over the same period in 2019, according to the Office for National Statistics. Alcohol-related deaths from January to March slightly increased over previous years, but they skyrocketed from April to September amid the spread of coronavirus and lockdowns meant to mitigate it.
USA TODAY -
February 5, 2021
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Yahoo! Finance -
February 4, 2021
New weekly unemployment claims dropped more than expected last week, as layoffs and job losses steadied but at still historically elevated levels during the ongoing pandemic. … Though initial claims spiked through most of December and January, they have started to come back down as states eased some restrictions put in place during the holiday COVID-19 spike in new cases.
ABC News -
February 4, 2021
A new study reaffirms that although severe coronavirus illness and death impact the elderly the most, younger adults are the cause of the spread. Americans between 20 and 49 years old were responsible for more than 70% of the spread of COVID-19 last year, according to the study from the Imperial College London's Department of Mathematics.
CNBC -
February 4, 2021
Teachers do not need to get vaccinated against Covid-19 before schools can safely reopen, the head of the CDC said. School systems across the U.S. have been under pressure to reopen after shifting to remote learning last year due to the pandemic. Teachers and other faculty have expressed concerns about returning to school, potentially putting their health at risk.
HealthDay -
February 4, 2021
Nearly a third of Hispanic respondents (31%) [also] said they didn't have isolation space, compared with 25% of Black respondents and 14% of white respondents, according to a University of Michigan online poll of more than 2,000 adults, aged 50 to 80. People with household incomes under $30,000 were more than twice as likely as those with incomes over $100,000 to lack isolation space. People who live in apartments were over two times more likely than those who live in single-family detached homes to have no place to isolate.
The Atlantic -
February 4, 2021
[Lately], daily tests have plateaued. After nearly breaking the 2 million mark in mid-January, daily tests today remain stuck at about 1.8 million. The stall-out is a mix of good and bad news: Although more testing would give us a clearer view of the outbreak, lower testing numbers reflect a pandemic in retreat, as demand for testing tends to rise with the spread of the virus.
11ALIVE -
February 4, 2021
FOX5 Atlanta -
February 4, 2021