The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now warning against more than 100 potentially dangerous hand sanitizers. Since June, the agency has been expanding its list of hand sanitizers that may be contaminated with deadly methanol alcohol. But on Friday, the FDA announced a new problem. While some hand sanitizers contain the wrong kind of […]
Isaias, the earliest Atlantic “I” storm on record, strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Thursday and now has the Bahamas and potentially Florida in its path. As a tropical storm, Isaias has already battered Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico, still recovering from 2017’s Hurricane Maria, the storm knocked out the […]
If you lived in a community suffering from bad air quality in 1981, chances are your neighborhood hasn’t improved much. That’s the takeaway from a new study that found despite years of progress to improve air pollution, wealthy, white Americans are breathing much cleaner air than low-income communities of color, The Guardian reported. “Disadvantaged communities […]
By Jose Pablo Ortiz Partida The immediate emergency of COVID-19 has been a powerful reminder that the most valuable things in our lives are our families, friends, and the welfare of our communities. The current pandemic is a threat to those closest to us today in a way that presages what we will experience on […]
The U.S. death toll from the new coronavirus passed 150,000 Wednesday, in a grim marker of the country’s struggle to control the disease. The U.S. has now reported more than 4.4 million confirmed cases and 150,713 deaths, according to Thursday morning figures from Johns Hopkins University. That number means the U.S. outbreak is by far […]
German biotechnology company Biontech and U.S. drugs giant Pfizer announced on Tuesday that they would start Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials of their BNT162b2 vaccine after getting the go-ahead from regulators. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the global trial for thousands of participants at 120 sites in the U.S. and elsewhere around […]
The second largest teachers union in the U.S. announced Tuesday it would support strikes if schools reopened without proper safety measures in place to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. The announcement comes as the Trump administration has called for schools to reopen in the fall for in-person instruction amid a nationwide surge in […]
By Francesca DiGiorgio A bipartisan group of lawmakers is working to increase federal aid for emergency food distribution in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The FEMA Empowering Essential Deliveries (FEED) Act will allow local and state governments to partner with restaurants on initiatives that feed people in need. It also calls on the Federal Emergency […]
Hand sanitizers are everywhere these days — store counters, car cup holders and even belt loops — as people try to avoid coronavirus germs. The ubiquity of this hygiene staple is not without its problems though, and the concern keeps growing as the FDA recently recalled 77 hand sanitizers for containing dangerous levels of methanol, […]
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