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Month: February 2021

Educators may be more central drivers of Covid-19 in schools than students, CDC study finds

A study that found teachers — not students — were the probable source of several school-related Covid-19 outbreaks highlights the need to maintain mask and distancing guidelines and to prioritize teachers and school staff for vaccination, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Monday. The “concerning report,” published Monday, details

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House panel sets up floor vote on Covid relief bill later this week while Senate awaits minimum wage decision

The House Budget Committee voted Monday to advance President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package, setting up the legislation aimed at fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic fallout to go to the House floor for a vote later this week. The package includes direct aid to small businesses, $1,400 direct checks to Americans making

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Trudeau, Biden to unveil ‘partnership roadmap’ following bilateral meeting: top U.S. officials

Click here for updates on this story     WASHINGTON, DC (CTV News) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden are expected to unveil a “partnership roadmap” following the first face-to-face virtual meeting between the two leaders on Tuesday. The roadmap is “a blueprint for our whole-of-government relationship, based on our shared values and

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Loss of taste and smell due to COVID-19 could last up to five months, new study suggests

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — A preliminary study involving 813 Quebec health-care workers who tested positive for COVID-19 has shown that people with the coronavirus could lose their sense of smell and taste for up to five months. The study was conducted through an online questionnaire where participants

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Law enforcement officials to break silence about security failures during US Capitol attack

Americans could hear for the first time Tuesday why intelligence and operations failed dramatically on January 6 from the very people whose choices contributed to the crisis — information that will likely help shape the search for new leaders and possibly a new security management structure on Capitol Hill. The Senate Homeland Security and Government

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El incontrolable problema de los «hipopótamos de la cocaína» en Colombia: ni castración, ni reubicación, ni erradicación

(CNN Español) — Casi tres décadas después de muerto, la huella de Pablo Escobar sigue viva en Colombia, esta vez con una problemática que nada tiene que ver con las drogas o el narcotráfico: hipopótamos invasores que tienen en peligro ecosistemas locales, especies nativas y en casos extremos, a la población local. Expertos han dicho

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