With schools shuttered over pandemic, NGOs partner to ensure no child goes hungry
NGOs Nevet and Leket Israel have joined forces to deliver warm meals and food packages to families and children in the Nevet Breakfast Program. For over 9,000 financially and socially disadvantaged school children across Israel, the daily sandwiches they receive during school from Nevet might have been the only nutritious food of their day. Today, when […]
Israel’s unemployment rate tops 21 percent
Israel’s unemployment continued to climb rapidly amid the coronavirus crisis and as of Thursday evening 21.2 percent of workers in the country were out of a job. Since the beginning of March, 723,028 people have been without work, 90% of them put on unpaid leave. In the past 24 hours 38,112 people have joined the […]
US Dept. of Justice Agrees It Is Not Fair for Males Who Identify as Female to Compete in Girls’ Sports
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed a Statement of Interest in a case involving three female high school track athletes who sued the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) and other entities over a policy allowing students to compete in sports in accordance with their stated “gender identity.” “Title IX and its implementing regulations […]
Franklin Graham to Andrew Cuomo: What about babies’ lives?
Evangelist Franklin Graham is urging New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to think about his declaration, amid the coronavirus crisis, that human lives are “not expendable.” Shouldn’t that also apply to babies? Graham posed the question in a post on Facebook in response to Cuomo saying at a daily briefing: “My mother is not […]
Birx cautions against inaccurate models predicting significant coronavirus spread
White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx cautioned Thursday against models that predict alarming increases in coronavirus infections and deaths in the U.S. Birx, speaking at a White House press briefing, singled out a recent study on the United Kingdom that originally predicted 500,000 people would die from the virus and has since been […]
Fox News Poll: Recession fears mount as coronavirus jolts US economy
Here are eight takeaways on the coronavirus pandemic from a Fox News Poll released Thursday. – President Trump’s overall job approval ticks up, while large numbers of Democrats and Republicans approve of infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci. – Equal numbers of voters, 9 in 10, are concerned about the spread of coronavirus in the U.S. […]
New Orleans Faces Virus Nightmare, and Mardi Gras may be Why
Yanti Turang, an emergency room nurse at a New Orleans hospital, walked out into the parking lot in full protective gear early this month to meet a woman with flu-like symptoms who had just returned home after a layover in South Korea. The woman was immediately taken to an isolation room. Around the same time, […]
Church services evacuated, pastors arrested in several countries over gathering bans
Authorities in countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and Greece have evacuated church services and arrested pastors in recent days as governments have prohibited large gatherings in an attempt to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. As governments across the globe have taken measures to ensure that citizens engage in social distancing so that they […]
US has more known cases of coronavirus than any other country
The United States now has the highest number of known cases of coronavirus in the world with more than 82,000, according to CNN’s tally of cases reported by health officials. The US cases piled up Thursday, surpassing China and Italy. The per capita rate of cases varies because of the countries’ vast differences in population. […]
Will coronavirus-infected people develop immunity?
If you contract the novel coronavirus, will you develop immunity against it? As scientists scramble to create a vaccine, those who have already contracted COVID-19 and recovered may be wondering: Do I have immunity? Possibly, according to experts, but it’s likely too soon to know for sure. But applying what we do know about other similar […]