As they struggle to salvage some semblance of a campus experience this fall, colleges are requiring promises from students to help contain the coronavirus — no keg parties, no long road trips and no outside guests on campus. No kidding. Administrators warn that failure to wear masks, practice social distancing and avoid mass gatherings could [...]
It has been seven years since the central air conditioning system worked at the New York City middle school where Lisa Fitzgerald O'Connor teaches. As a new school year approaches amid the coronavirus pandemic, she and her colleagues are threatening not to return unless it's repaired. Her classroom has a window air conditioning unit, but [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has stopped removing or adding to a list of counties facing more restrictions on businesses and schools as it tries to resolve a technical problem with the state's coronavirus testing database, health officials said last week. The state has recorded a highest-in-the-nation 525,000 positive tests. But California health officials say [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — School districts nationwide puzzling over how to safely educate children during a pandemic have a more immediate challenge — getting 26 million bus-riding students there in the first place. Few challenges are proving to be more daunting than figuring out how to maintain social distance on school buses. A wide array [...]
An Ohio State University-led study has found baby boomers are suffering from a decline in cognitive functioning despite the prevalence of dementia having fallen in recent years. Researchers call it a reversal of trends, revealing the average cognition scores of adults aged 50 and older peaked among war babies born between 1942 and 1947. Results [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — For Michelle Lynn England, back-to-school shopping always meant heading to Target and the local mall with her two girls and dropping about $500 on each of them for trendy outfits. Not this year. The Charlotte, N.C., resident has slashed her spending on clothing in half for her 10-year-old and 14-year-old and [...]
MIAMI (AP) — On the four-acre farm at the edge of the Everglades where Timea Hunter runs a horse academy, she has hosted plenty of parties, picnics and workshops, so with her children's school building closed, she figured why not use it also a classroom? While her son and daughter will participate in distance learning [...]
DALLAS, Ga. (AP) — Putting your child on the bus for the first day of school is always a leap of faith for a parent. Now, on top of the normal worries about teachers and lessons and adjusting to new routines, there's COVID-19. Rachel Adamus was feeling those emotions at sunrise Monday as she got [...]
PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Cameron Settles was swabbed for COVID-19 in mid-June at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando and it took him eight days to get the results. "They originally told him that it would be five days," said Jenna Settles, his wife. "Then when he went to log in, it said six [...]
As a New York University medical researcher who works once a week in an emergency room, Dr. David Lee had the luxury of time to think like a scientist while also treating coronavirus patients whose lungs kept giving out. In every case, he saw the same thing: Their blood was starved of oxygen. One day [...]