[ad_1] Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday signed an executive order calling for the preservation of 30% of New Mexico’s public lands by 2030, bringing the state into line with a larger federal conservation effort. The order orders half a dozen state agencies to join together behind the effort by establishing programs that conserve, protect … Read more
[ad_1] DETROIT – The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Michigan rose to 937,720 on Wednesday, including 20,161 deaths, state officials report. Wednesday’s update includes a total of 4,326 new cases and 38 additional deaths in the past two days – an average of 2,163 cases per day. On Monday, the state announced … Read more
[ad_1] For months, Joelle Ruppert has been one of the millions of Americans who resist the covid vaccine. Her reluctance, she said, was not so much that she opposed the new vaccines, but that she had never felt “constrained” by the evidence supporting their experimental use. Nonetheless, after falling ill with covid last month, Ruppert, … Read more
[ad_1] Data on COVID cases in Israel suggests vaccination alone is not enough to completely stop pandemic, experts say News week. Scientists around the world have been watching Israel closely to see how vaccinations could affect the pandemic, since the country launched a rapid vaccination campaign in December 2020. This has seen more than half … Read more
[ad_1] WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said up to 1,500 Americans are waiting to be evacuated from Afghanistan and 4,500 have already flown. This is a last minute update. A previous version of this report is below. U.S. officials on Wednesday promised that the military airlift of Americans and others from Kabul … Read more
[ad_1] Vanessa Alfermann, a Missouri nurse who contracted COVID-19 last fall while pregnant and ultimately lost her baby boy, Axel, at 22 weeks, has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 Tuesday to encourage pregnant women and others to get vaccinated. Alfermann fell ill shortly after her husband tested positive, and everything was fine for the first … Read more
[ad_1] Meet the new faculty joining St. Paul’s Academy and Summit School Elementary School on the Goodrich Campus! Jake Ban, Deputy Director: Jake is the new assistant principal of the lower school and recently completed a one-year principal’s internship at Maria L. Baldwin Elementary School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has spent the past ten years … Read more
[ad_1] Lake Shipp Elementary School in Florida Google Street View Florida elementary school teacher Kelly Peterson died of complications from COVID-19 on Monday. Her doctor advised her not to get the COVID-19 vaccine due to her leukemia treatment. Her sister and her union believe Peterson was infected in class, where masks were not required. Visit … Read more
[ad_1] Posted on August 25, 2021 County Commissioners Council approves local statewide application of mask mandate On August 24, 2021, the Washington County Council of Commissioners, acting as the local public health authority for Washington County, unanimously agreed to pass a new rule allowing health and service personnel county social to apply Oregon Statewide Mask … Read more
[ad_1] An unvaccinated man who almost died from COVID-19 urged people who haven’t already to get vaccinated. Ben Anderson, 42 from Cameron, Missouri, began to feel ill in late June and was subsequently hospitalized with COVID, ending up in intensive care, Kansas City Star reported. At one point about six weeks ago, the intensive care … Read more