August 27, 2021 120,000 vaccinated Bay Area residents don't have proof, government has no plans to help About 120,000 vaccinated Californians in the San Francisco Bay Area are struggling to prove they were vaccinated after not receiving the proper CDC cards.
August 27, 2021 Docs urge kids’ routine vaccinations after missed shots amid pandemic Parents should contact pediatricians now for annual physicals, experts say, after pandemic-related closures spurred a marked decline in children’s routine immunizations.
August 27, 2021 CDC not changing school guidance amid delta spread, Walensky says Federal health guidance issued to help schools navigate reopenings and reduce COVID-19 transmission in classrooms, including universal masking regardless of vaccination status and layered mitigation steps, won’t be changed amid the spread of the delta variant, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said during a White House briefing Friday.
August 27, 2021 Democrats attack Supreme Court for blocking Biden eviction moratorium Democrats are lashing out at the Supreme Court for blocking President Biden's eviction moratorium.
August 27, 2021 Gordon Chang: China will continue to 'disappear' citizen journalists like Zhang Zhan for COVID reporting The saga of a Chinese citizen who could die in prison for reporting on her authoritarian government's failed coronavirus response shows China hasn't succeeded completely in suppressing the truth, author Gordon Chang says.
August 27, 2021 KISS postpones concert after Paul Stanley tests positive for coronavirus Paul Stanley, the 69-year-old co-lead vocalist and frontman for KISS, tested positive for Covid-19 according to the band’s official Facebook account.
August 27, 2021 Houston reports COVID-19 death in child with no underlying conditions A boy in Houston between the ages of 10 and 19 died from COVID-19 last month, marking the city’s first such death in a child with no underlying health conditions.
August 27, 2021 LA Times writer: 'Jerk' parents should 'calm down' over mask mandates because children 'are used to it' A Los Angeles Times editorial board writer claimed parents opposed to mask mandates were acting like "jerks," and that children were OK with wearing masks at school because they're adaptable and "used to it."
August 27, 2021 1 in 3 Americans had COVID-19 by end of 2020, study says A new study estimates that nearly one-third of the U.S. population — 103 million Americans — may have contracted COVID-19 by the end of 2020, with only a fraction of those cases correctly reported in public health reports.
August 27, 2021 New Zealand wages high-stakes effort to halt virus outbreak By early next week, New Zealanders should know if their government's strict new lockdown is working to stamp out its first coronavirus outbreak in six months.
