Perspectives: Pros, Cons Of Vaccine Rollout Plans; Time To Make Science Bipartisan Again
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A new Department of Transportation rule says that airlines do no have to accommodate emotional support animals inside flight cabins, drawing a distinction between those and trained service dogs.
News reports are also on the NBA's rising number of cases, surviving everything at 102, dangerous church services, helping others and more.
In coronavirus news, an Oklahoma school tries in-school quarantines, Vermont urges retesting for several hundred and Pennsylvania cites poor care in a veterans home.
Austin's mayor, a Sacramento County sheriff and other Americans are in the news for their pandemic actions.
The COVID pandemic is straining most aspects of the American health care system.
In addition to other new research, doctors say everyone needs to be aware of a handful of symptoms, including gastrointestinal problems.
The current frontrunner for the post is believed to be Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo. President-elect Joe Biden is expected to announce next week his choice for the critical role. Meanwhile, as President Donald Trump continues to rail against the results, threats of violence against election officials escalate.
A $908 billion compromise stimulus plan floated by a bipartisan group of senators may restart stalled negotiations, but there's a long way to go.
Staffing shortages besiege medical facilities around the country as a surge of COVID patients flood the health care system.
That and other big questions need to be answered, such as: What about pregnant women, or vaccine trial volunteers who got a placebo?
The Department of Defense gave its first glimpse of the cards Wednesday. Meanwhile, CVS and Walgreens announced they will send pharmacists to assisted-living facilities to administer the vaccine when it becomes available.
The European Union, which the U.K. withdrew from earlier this year, was also blunt in defending its approach, saying its longer approval process requires more checks than the emergency procedure chosen by Britain.
The study will include 3,000 kids, but the company does not appear to be recruiting volunteers yet.
Spoofed emails impersonating a Chinese biomedical executive are currently targeting organizations in six countries, including Germany, Italy, South Korea, the Czech Republic and Taiwan, security analysts at IBM warned on Thursday.
News outlets report on mitigation measures in Mississippi, California, Arizona, Kentucky, New Jersey, Michigan, Virginia and New York.
The CDC is warning against travel over the December holidays and telling Americans that if they ignore that advice, they should get tested before and after the trip.
CDC chief Dr. Robert Redfield delivered a stark message to Americans: the next months will likely be “the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation" with the death toll possibly reaching 450,000 by February.
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