Feb 23 Why Indigenous people in cities feel ‘invisible’ as pandemic wears on By Casey Kuhn 14 states don’t publicly keep track of COVID-19 data for American Indians/Alaska Natives. “We know who we are, and these are our homelands, so to be rendered invisible is another incidence of historical trauma.”… Continue reading
Feb 23 WATCH: COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers describe how they will ramp up supplies By Laura Santhanam So far, more than 44 million people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the latest CDC data. Continue reading
Feb 22 In Texas, attention turns to storm repairs, delivering aid By Jake Bleiberg, Associated Press Many people are still getting a sense of the wreckage left by the icy blast that hit Texas and much of the Deep South last week, knocking out power to millions and contributing to nearly 80 deaths. Continue reading
Feb 22 U.S. tops 500,000 COVID-19 deaths By Melinda Deslatte, Tammy Webber, Associated Press The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. has topped 500,000, all but matching the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined. Continue reading
Feb 22 Denver investigation faults overall police treatment of Elijah McClain By Patty Nieberg, Colleen Slevin, Associated Press The report of the investigation conducted for the city of Aurora released Monday faults officers for their quick, aggressive treatment of the 23-year-old Black man. Continue reading
Feb 22 WATCH: Pentagon says no attribution for Iraq rocket attacks By Associated Press The Pentagon, at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has started deploying thousands of active-duty troops to open mass vaccination centers across the country. Continue reading
Feb 22 WATCH: Biden mourns 500,000 dead from COVID-19 in White House ceremony By Zeke Miller, Associated Press A president whose own life has been marked by family tragedy, Biden spoke in deeply personal terms, referencing his own losses as he tried to comfort the huge number of Americans whose lives have been forever changed by the pandemic. Continue reading
Feb 22 WATCH: White House COVID-19 response team holds briefing By Associated Press Dr. Anthony Fauci is calling the United States’ approaching milestone of half a million deaths from the coronavirus as “terribly historic” and stressed the need for continuing public health measures. Continue reading
Feb 21 Watch 5:20 As the COVID-19 vaccination rollout continues, when will children be vaccinated? As COVID-19 vaccinations continue to expand to new groups of people, there is the question of when children can begin to get shots. Dr. Fauci recently said children as young as first-graders may be vaccinated by the start of school… Continue watching
Feb 21 U.S. coronavirus death toll approaches milestone of 500,000 By John Raby, Associated Press A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 — roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta. The figure compiled by Johns Hopkins University surpasses the number… Continue reading