The Baltimore Police Department has launched an internal investigation into a social media video that appears to show an officer repeatedly coughing near citizens in Southeast Baltimore, according to the department. The department’s Public Integrity Bureau has opened up an internal investigation and reviewed the online video, according to a release from BPD, as well…… MORE
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A clinic in Pennsylvania is bringing the Amish drive-through coronavirus testing for their horse and buggies
A small clinic in central Pennsylvania has set up drive-through coronavirus testing that accommodates horse and buggies for its local Amish and Mennonite communities. The Central Pennsylvania Clinic in Belleville, a town known for its majority Amish and Mennonite population, is one of the only coronavirus testing facilities in the area. The clinic’s founder and…… MORE
Detroit hospital nurses refuse to work without more help, ordered to leave
Emergency room nursing staff at a Detroit hospital were told to leave Sunday night after they refused to work and demanded more nurses be brought into their overrun emergency room, health care workers there told CNN. The night shift ER nurses at Sinai-Grace Hospital refused to leave the break room until hospital administrators brought in…… MORE
Abortion rights opponents in several cities have been cited for violating stay-at-home orders
For some abortion rights opponents around the country, orders by cities and counties to stay at home during the coronavirus pandemic have become a point of contention. In recent weeks, police in several cities have arrested people who continued to engage in anti-abortion rights demonstrations or other advocacy efforts outside reproductive health clinics, despite stay-at-home…… MORE
Visits to New York City’s domestic violence website surged amid coronavirus pandemic
New York City’s domestic violence resource website, NYC Hope, has seen a notable surge in the number of visits in recent weeks, as the city attempts to curb the spread of the coronavirus by enforcing strict stay-at-home measures. Website visits more than doubled — going from about 45 visits per day to 115 visits per…… MORE
Volunteers fixed 20,000 N95 masks for Memphis hospital in a weekend
A group of volunteers has been working to repair 27,000 desperately needed N95 protective masks for a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital battling the coronavirus pandemic — and they got most of them done in a weekend. Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis recently found dozens of cases of the masks in storage but couldn’t use them because the elastic…… MORE
Scientists uncover a 60,000-year-old forest underwater and think its preserved trees may help pioneer new medicines
Nearly 60,000 years ago, as prehistoric humans just started venturing out of Africa, a forest of cypress trees grew on the banks of a river near the Gulf of Mexico. As the trees grew old, they fell and were buried under sediment. When the sea level rose, the remains of the forest were covered once…… MORE
Los Angeles has notoriously polluted air. But right now it has some of the cleanest of any major city
The mental image many people have of the Los Angeles skyline is one obscured by smog, with thick air pollution hanging over its downtown buildings. But with the city — and the entire state of California — under stay-at-home orders to stem the deadly outbreak of coronavirus, something dramatic has happened to the air in…… MORE
A mayor ordered police to crack down on social gatherings. They found his wife at a bar
A mayor in Illinois pleaded with residents last week to follow the state’s stay at home order. After officers reported that people were continuing to defy the rules, the mayor said he had directed the city’s police department to use its discretion in issuing citations and arrests. “These are very serious times and I’m begging…… MORE
Why black Americans are at higher risk for coronavirus
Black Americans have more existing medical issues, less access to health care, and are more likely to work in unstable jobs — all factors that have made the coronavirus pandemic disproportionately hurt blacks more. While everyone is susceptible to Covid-19, black Americans are at higher risk, Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said during an appearance…… MORE
