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Columbia Board of Education votes to extend coronavirus action plan
News COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Board of Education voted unanimously to continue the mask mandate and COVID-19 plan. Watch the meeting replay in the player below. In the updated plan, the district has added remediation strategies for students and staff. The Superintendent will be able to decide if mask requirements are needed after consultation with the Incident Command Team, the Columbia/Boone County Health Department, health and medical professionals and neighboring school district superintendents. The CPS 14-day case rate is currently 49.3 positive cases per 10,000 students and staff. CPS has 63 active student cases with 310 in quarantine. The district also has 7 staff cases and 8 staff in…
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A Coronavirus Epidemic Hit 20,000 Years Ago, New Study Finds
Researchers have found evidence that a coronavirus epidemic swept East Asia some 20,000 years ago and was devastating enough to leave an evolutionary imprint on the DNA of people alive today. The new study suggests that an ancient coronavirus plagued the region for many years, researchers say. The finding could have dire implications for the Covid-19 pandemic if it’s not brought under control soon through vaccination. “It should make us worry,” said David Enard, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who led the study, which was published on Thursday in the journal Current Biology. “What is going on right now might be going on for generations and generations.”…
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Jon Stewart: Coronavirus ‘more than likely caused by science’
Jon Stewart is shooting down theories that COVID-19 could be anything but lab-created, saying the pandemic was “more than likely caused by science.” “There’s a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China,” Stewart said during a Monday appearance on “The Late Show” with Stephen ColbertStephen Tyrone ColbertJon Stewart shows late-night conformity cabal how political comedy is done Rita Moreno defends Lin-Manuel Miranda after ‘In the Heights’ casting criticism Jon Stewart: Coronavirus ‘more than likely caused by science’ MORE. “Oh, you know who we could ask? The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab,” he exclaimed to his former “Daily Show” colleague. “The disease is the same name as the lab! That’s just a little…
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Worker Shortages, Fear of Coronavirus and Industry Dislocation Stymies Jobs Recovery | National News
At Tavern on 12, a roadside eatery in the southern Outer Banks hamlet of Frisco, North Carolina, things are going swimmingly. After a couple months break for a maintenance project, Tavern on 12 reopened in late February and “we are slammed every day right now,” says owner Steve Jones. There’s only one problem. Jones is not able to open his restaurant every day as he can’t find the workers to run two shifts. Instead, his current staff is running at full tilt and he does not want to burn them out, especially as the area prepares for the upcoming summer season when rental homes and restaurants are usually full to…
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Kettering targets Fraze opening in late-July; city looks to fill jobs, economy, coronavirus, entertainment
“We would love to make an announcement of who the acts are … in late May, so our customers will have the opportunity to start buying tickets in early June,” Schwieterman said. “At this point that’s what we’re planning on,” he added. “We’re hoping that we’ll have increased capacities to put the shows on by the time we get into late July.” ExploreEARLIER: Kettering to install touchless faucets at city sites using American Rescue Plan funds Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in March amended an order to allow outdoor entertainment venues to admit up to 30{c25493dcd731343503a084f08c3848bd69f9f2f05db01633325a3fd40d9cc7a1} of their fixed, seated capacity. Fewer than 1,000 daily coronavirus cases were reported Monday, according…
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Some homeschooling students entering alternative learning program, data suggests | Coronavirus
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — According to Clark County School District, about 4,000 more letters of intent to homeschool have been submitted this school year, compared to the average number in years prior. Now, in FOX5’s continuing coverage, it appears that some of those students are learning in alternative group settings, rather than just at home. Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy said they have seen their enrollment numbers almost double since last semester. The public-private partnership added two additional grades, seventh and eighth, and have expanded to neighborhood recreation centers to add additional classrooms to accommodate the demand. One parent said she took her daughter out of CCSD and enrolled her…
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Why we still don’t know for sure where the coronavirus came from
More than a year after the novel coronavirus had spread to all corners of the globe, officially becoming a pandemic, we still don’t know where it came from (SN: 3/11/20). Many researchers agree the virus most likely came from nature, probably harbored in bats. Even so, conspiracy theories claiming that the virus came from a lab arose shortly after the first genetic blueprint for SARS-CoV-2 was unveiled in January 2020. Using that very genetic blueprint, multiple studies have refuted the lab-borne hypothesis and continue to point to bats as the original source of the virus. But even after more than a year of sleuthing, many questions remain. It’s unclear where…
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