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Month: July 2021

Fact-checking RNC false tweet about Surgeon General’s masks comments

By Holmes Lybrand The recent change of mask guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created some confusion and also ample opportunity for political attacks against President Joe Biden’s administration, some of which rely on misinterpretations from partisan sources. Late Thursday evening for example, one of the Republican National Committee’s Twitter

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El calor y la humedad hacen que el “verano de Tokio” sea el peor de la historia de los Juegos Olímpicos

Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los veranos de Japón son calurosos, húmedos y pueden ser mortales. Si se están batiendo récords durante las pruebas de los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020 también podría salir una marca que quizás no hubiera querido. Antes de la pandemia, la insolación era el mayor riesgo para los atletas de los

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Sherard Johnson

600 kids set to get free shoes

By Tim Pulliam Click here for updates on this story     DURHAM, North Carolina (WTVD) — Sherard Johnson, a former teacher at Neal Middle School, is making sure underprivileged children in Durham are ready to put their best foot forward. “Each year on the first day of school, I would see behavioral issues from different students

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The Cordouan lighthouse in Le Verdon-sur-Mer

These are the new UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Francesca Street, CNN A prehistoric solar observatory in the middle of a desert. A decades-old railway that bisects two soaring mountain ranges. Striking art etched into rocks that dates back 7,000 years. These are just some of the spectacular destinations newly inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. After several days of online deliberations, the

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Un informe de los CDC muestra que el 90% de los efectos adversos de las vacunas en los adolescentes no son graves

Germán Padinger (CNN) — Entre los millones de adolescentes que han recibido la vacuna contra el coronavirus de Pfizer/BioNTech, nuevos datos muestran que la mayoría de los que han informado de efectos adversos experimentaron problemas leves, y la afección cardíaca miocarditis figuraba entre el 4,3% de todos los informes. Los datos publicados el viernes por

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A study

CDC shares ‘pivotal discovery’ on Covid-19 breakthrough infections that led to new mask guidance

By Michael Nedelman, CNN A new study shows the Delta Covid-19 variant produced similar amounts of virus in vaccinated and unvaccinated people if they get infected — illustrating a key motivation behind the federal guidance that now recommends most fully vaccinated Americans wear masks indoors. Experts say that vaccination makes it less likely that you’ll

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