Los Angeles County over the weekend confirmed that has reinstated a mask-wearing mandate for staff, patients, and visitors at licensed health care facilities, citing a recent increase in COVID-19 cases. According to health officials, the county entered the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “medium level” for hospital admissions on Dec. 29, triggering […]
Hospitals in places across the United States have reimplemented mask mandates because of what officials say is an uptick in COVID-19 and other respiratory infections. For example, the NYC Health + Hospitals—officially the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation that operates public hospitals and clinics in New York City—announced that mask mandates will be […]
An elementary school in Maryland is forcing some students to wear masks. Three or more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the previous 10 days, school administrators told parents of some of the students at Rosemary Hills Elementary School in Silver Spring in a Sept. 5 letter. Principal Rebecca Irwin Kennedy said she was […]
A number of Republican lawmakers and figures have voiced their displeasure with reports indicating that some businesses are reimposing mask mandates. Sen. J.D Vance (R-Ohio) announced plans on Sept. 5 to introduce the “Freedom to Breathe Act,” which would prevent the federal government from issuing federal mask mandates in the United States. “We tried mask […]
Republican Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has vowed that her state will not participate if another round of federal COVID restrictions is imposed. “COVID lockdowns killed businesses, tore apart communities and stunted our kids’ education. And now they’re talking about doing it again. So let me be clear: as long as I am governor, Arkansas […]
CHICAGO—A Illinois businessman has been convicted of price-gouging in connection with the sale of N95 masks during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Krikor Topouzian, 62, of Winnetka, was convicted Thursday in federal court in Chicago following a bench trial, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. He could face up to a year in prison when […]
BERLIN—Germany handed over to Colombia on Friday two masks made by the Indigenous Kogi people that had been in a Berlin museum’s collection for more than a century, another step in the country’s restitution of cultural artifacts as some European nations reappraise their colonial past. The wooden “sun masks,” which date back to the mid-15th […]
BERLIN—A German doctor was sentenced late Monday to two years and nine months in prison for illegally issuing more than 4,000 people with exemptions from wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic. A regional court in the southwestern town of Weinheim confirmed Tuesday that the doctor was convicted of “issuing incorrect health certificates” to people from […]
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday urged parents in the state to prepare for the colder weather months and remask their toddlers to protect them from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections. “We’re not mandating this, but we’re saying, parents, you know, you got other kids, you got kids in school, preschool and you […]
My guest is Ross Novie, a multi-media director and producer and the founder of Uprising LA. While children can sit next to each other in classrooms with no masks, they are required to wear them in public gyms and recreation centers. Why is there this discrepancy and how is it impacting the children in Los […]
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin announces a surprise deal, on an alternate version of the Build Back Better bill. Lawmakers on both sides react.
The U.S. economy is shrinking. and it has done so for the last two quarters. Are we in a recession now? How is the Biden administration reacting? An economist weighs in and gives us some advice.
Covid numbers are rising fast in L.A. County. Officials might respond by bringing back the indoor mask mandate. But some city officials don’t want the possible mandate.
After the church shooting in Orange County that killed one and injured five, residents responded to what motivated the killer. At the same time, the man who died in the incident is being hailed as a hero. A new drug-smuggling passage was discovered during a federal drug investigation. Authorities say it stretches from Mexico to […]
The European Union (EU) will no longer require passengers and crew members to wear masks onboard flights and at airports from May 16 as the continent looks to ease CCP virus restrictions, authorities announced Wednesday. “From next week, face masks will no longer need to be mandatory in air travel in all cases, broadly aligning with […]
Philadelphia is reinstating its indoor mask mandate starting April 18 after reporting an increase in virus infections. The city’s top health official said Monday that COVID-19 cases have risen more than 50 percent in 10 days. That’s the threshold at which the city’s guidelines call for people to wear masks indoors.
The Pennsylvania judge who ordered Tuesday to remove five elected school directors from the nine-member West Chester Area School board, reinstated them Friday. But the saga is not over; they could be booted again. The five were removed on a technicality. There was a dispute over how much time the school had to respond to […]
The NFL and the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) jointly agreed on Wednesday to suspend all CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus protocols going into the new season, citing a recent downward trend of COVID-19 infections. “Based on current encouraging trends regarding the prevalence and severity of COVID-19, the evolving guidance from the CDC, changes to state law […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Feb. 25 it is no longer requiring students and others on school buses to wear masks, but is keeping the mask mandate for all other forms of public transportation in place. Effective Friday, “CDC does not require wearing of masks on buses or vans operated by public […]
