Last year, tens of thousands of water birds became paralyzed and died in a gruesome botulism outbreak caused by lack of water at two wildlife refuges on California’s border with Oregon. And it could happen again this summer. The crippling drought that has plagued the region for years shows no […]
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World Series super spreader? Dodgers face COVID-19 outbreak following Justin Turner’s mask-less celebration
The coronavirus strikes again. NBC News reports “nine members of the Los Angeles Dodgers organization and one family member have tested positive for the coronavirus, county health officials said.” The number of Dodgers organization cases was initially five, according to a Los Angeles County Department of Public Health post on Thursday […]
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God, masks and Trump: What a coronavirus outbreak at a California church says about the election
The influence of Bethel Church can be felt all over this economically stressed Northern California city. In the Redding police officers whose positions the megachurch funded. The once-dying civic auditorium it keeps afloat. The church elder on the Redding City Council. Bethel can be felt in the trendy new coffee […]
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Notre Dame football works through COVID-19 outbreak
SOUTH BEND — It’s not that Brian Kelly didn’t have enough potential headaches to address this week, even from a 1-2 Florida State team that was reportedly uninspired enough in practice Wednesday to send its head coach into a tizzy. A sampling: • What to do with Florida State’s 6-foot-5, […]
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How New York’s Worst Campus Outbreak Unfolded
It was the middle of the night when a man in a hazmat suit led a first-year student from her dormitory at State University of New York at Oneonta to a van as she cried quietly, a scary experience later shared on social media. She had tested positive for the […]