Tag: coronavirus

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anxious to spur an economic recovery without risking lives, President Donald Trump insists that “you can satisfy both” — see states gradually lift lockdowns while also protecting people from the coronavirus pandemic…

In the past several weeks, our world has been rocked. The COVID-19 pandemic changed practically every aspect of our lives. Together, we’ve faced extraordinary and unprecedented challenges. This very serious virus has attacked the elderly,…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After spending two decades raising pigs to send to slaughterhouses, Dean Meyer now faces the mentally draining, physically difficult task of killing them even before they leave his northwest Iowa…

AUSTIN, Texas — A Belgian llama named Winter could hold the key to fighting the coronavirus. Researchers at the University of Texas, in coordination with the National Institutes of Health and Ghent University in Belgium,…

The line of customers at TLC Greenhouse continued to grow Thursday afternoon. With social distancing guidelines that required them to stay at least 6 feet apart, they roamed through the aisles with carts full of…

GENEVA — The head of emergencies at the World Health Organization reiterated that the group believes the novel coronavirus is “natural in origin.” Dr. Michael Ryan responded Friday to to comments by U.S. President Donald…

Several safeguards will be put in place for the Allen County Farmers Market, which opens for the 2020 growing season next Thursday. Social distance guidelines will be followed in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers…

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 3.8 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as the U.S. economy slid further into a crisis that is becoming the most devastating since the 1930s. Roughly 30.3…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump likes to talk about the most, the best, the thing that nobody has ever seen. Now he is trying to make a virtue of a lower number, arguing that…

The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending that cats, dogs and other animals keep the same social distancing as recommended for humans. The recommendation was made after a small number of animals…