Working from home while teaching and caring for your kids isn’t easy during this crisis. In today’s edition of “Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction,” CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to moms and dads about parenting in a pandemic. You can listen to it on your favorite podcast or read the transcript below. Dr.
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Turns out classroom critters are also quarantining due to coronavirus concerns. As schools across the world close their campuses because of the pandemic, parents and teachers have found themselves with an additional house guest for the foreseeable future. Here are some class pets that have joined families in self-isolating. Mr. Nibbles, the guinea pig When
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Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, said on Tuesday that the US must address its health care crisis in order to restore the economy, as some of President Donald Trump’s allies push to reopen the country despite the threat of the coronavirus pandemic. “There will be no normally functioning economy if our hospitals
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Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (WDAF) — The Kansas City area’s stay-at-home order is just hours from going into effect. Cities and counties are working together in the fight against COVID-19, and people staying at home are the best weapon to stop its spread. Kansas City, Missouri, law enforcement officials
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Honolulu, HI (KITV ) — Some of the more than 2,000 passengers on-board the Norwegian Jewel cruise ship that’s been docked at Honolulu Harbor since Sunday were let off the vessel on Monday. According to the the Hawaii Department of Transportation, emptying the ship is a 2-day process,
Continue Reading Last week, President Donald Trump announced he’d invoke the Defense Production Act, which was passed in 1950 in response to production needs during the Korean War. “I view it — in a sense as a wartime president,” he said. Trump has since come under mounting pressure to use the act as states scramble to shore
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Here’s some information about the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The coronavirus, called Covid-19 by the WHO, originated in China and is the cousin of the SARS virus. Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses that are common among animals. The viruses can make people sick, usually
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CARMICHAEL, CA (KTXL ) — For an unidentified Carmichael jogger and her dog, the threat outside Sunday morning was not so much catching COVID-19 as it was avoiding an erratic driver. Witnesses told FOX40 that a white BMW exceeded speeds of 50 mph in the area of Rolling
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Click here for updates on this story CARMICHAEL, CA (KTXL ) — For an unidentified Carmichael jogger and her dog, the threat outside Sunday morning was not so much catching COVID-19 as it was avoiding an erratic driver. Witnesses told FOX40 that a white BMW exceeded speeds of 50 mph in the area of Rolling
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Albert Uderzo, co-creator and illustrator of the “Asterix” comic book series, has died at the age of 92, a spokesman for his publisher Editions Albert Rene said. The hugely popular comic, read worldwide, follows the adventures of Gaulish warriors and their antics against Roman adversaries. They were published for the first time in francophone Pilote
Continue Reading They may be in quarantine, but Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson still want to do their part to help with voter registration. The longtime married couple have posted on their official Instagram accounts to invite everyone to become a part of the #CouchParty movement. Hanks posted a photo showing a dog laying on a couch.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT ) — The empty shelves in our grocery stores and the pleading from officials to only shop for what you need has brought new focus to something that is always running in the background, America’s supply chain. That supply chain relies on truckers like Sheboygan-based John
Continue Reading Australia is famously home to all sorts of exotic animals, including snakes. However, one woman was still shocked to find a 4.5-meter (14.8-foot) albino Burmese python on her front porch in Oxenford, Queensland, on Monday. The 50-kilogram (110-pound) snake was large enough to eat a dog, and removing the animal required the specialist skills of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TALLAHASSEE Paramedic Mark Rowley didn’t recognize the face of the young man on the stretcher. Until he looked past the oxygen mask and the wires, he saw only another overdose victim clinging to life. But it wasn’t just another victim: He was his mentee, barely breathing after smoking
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(CNN) — Vivir una pandemia es extraño. A la mayoría de nosotros nunca se nos ha pedido hacer sacrificios como este antes: quedarse en casa y limitar el contacto con los demás. Toda esa interrupción puede hacer que las personas se sientan ansiosas. Y para algunos, eso incluye ignorar por completo el nuevo coronavirus y
Continue Reading Tired of washing your hands for 20 seconds each time? Fingers starting to prune or feel like sandpaper? Please don’t stop. The world is counting on you to help stop the spread of Covid-19, the deadly new disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Take heart that while you’re scrubbing, you’re
Continue Reading A historic postponement for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will result in even more history being made. HBO has announced the 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held Saturday, November 7, at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland. And for the first time the ceremony will be broadcast live,
Continue Reading There is nothing like a supreme national emergency to realize the fragility of our lives and focus the mind. We have witnessed grave and traumatic events before: the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918; the 1929 stock market crash and ensuing depression; Britain after Dunkirk, facing a Nazi invasion; Pearl Harbor; the terrorist attacks of 9/11;
Continue Reading President Donald Trump appears to have made his choice in the awful dilemma posed by the coronavirus pandemic — whether to destroy the nation’s economic foundation in order to save lives. In his zeal to fire up American prosperity after helping to trigger an unprecedented self-inflicted economic meltdown, Trump is already losing patience — weeks
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President Donald Trump appears to have made his choice in the awful dilemma posed by the coronavirus pandemic — whether to destroy the nation’s economic foundation in order to save lives. In his zeal to fire up American prosperity after helping to trigger an unprecedented self-inflicted economic meltdown, Trump is already losing patience — weeks
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Mayor Dee Margo, County Judge Ricardo Samaniego and Dr. Hector Ocaranza of the Health Authority announced a stay-at-home order for El Pasoans in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. That order takes effect at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday and directs everyone in El Paso City and
Continue Reading Dr. Craig Spencer has worked as an epidemiologist in Africa and Southeast Asia and famously survived getting Ebola in 2014 after caring for patients in Guinea. The coronavirus scares him. Spencer is now the director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, which has become the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, MO (WDAF) — The coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt our everyday lives, and for people with loved ones in hospice care, the uncertainty is especially hard. Walter Davis said he would do anything to see his 65-year-old mother, Brenda Davis. “I can’t even explain how traumatic
Continue Reading An ice rink in Madrid has been turned into a temporary morgue as Spain tries to cope with the fallout from its rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak. Bodies of people who have died of Covid-19 are now being transported by the country’s emergency military unit to the Palacio de Hielo, or Ice Palace, in Madrid’s Hortaleza
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TOKYO, Japan — Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach agreed Tuesday to postpone the Olympics until 2021. The IOC has been facing mounting pressure to delay the Games, which were originally scheduled to take place from July 24 to August 9, amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. It was
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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach agreed Tuesday to postpone the Olympics until 2021. The IOC has been facing mounting pressure to delay the Games, which were originally scheduled to take place from July 24 to August 9, amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. It was also announced that
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People stuck at home amid the coronavirus pandemic are being urged to support local restaurants on Tuesday, March 24 by ordering to-go as part of the “Great American Takeout.” Local and national restaurants have banded together to ask people to support the restaurant industry by ordering takeout, with some restaurants offering deals to encourage participation.
Continue Reading Every respirator mask that’s available right now should be going to a healthcare worker on the front lines, caring for coronavirus-infected patients. They should not be sold in stores to consumers, said 3M CEO Mike Roman in a CNBC interview Monday. 3M is the largest maker of medical face masks, specifically the N95 respirator mask.
Continue Reading Michelle Obama is reminding Americans practicing social distancing because of the coronavirus that no matter what they’re going through, they “aren’t alone.” “These past few weeks have been scary and difficult for many of us,” the former first lady said Monday in an Instagram post. “We just don’t have a roadmap for what we’re currently
Continue Reading Millions of gig economy workers across the world are facing an impossible choice as a result of the coronavirus pandemic: break lockdown rules, or stay home and earn nothing. The dilemma was illustrated Tuesday by images of packed subway cars in London less than 12 hours after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced stricter social distancing
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