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Month: April 2021

Illinois bar opening event linked to 46 Covid-19 cases, a school closure and hospitalization, CDC report says

A rural Illinois bar opening event in February was linked to a Covid-19 outbreak of at least 46 cases, a school closure and the hospitalization of a long-term care facility resident, according to a United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. The Illinois Department of Public Health identified 29 individuals who tested positive

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Thandiwe Newton reclaims her original name

Thandiwe Newton wants her name back. The “Westworld” actress, who had been going by Thandie Newton, told British Vogue, “I’m taking back what’s mine.” Newton’s parents, a Zimbabewan princess and a lab technician from Cornwall, England, named her Thandiwe, which means beloved in Shona. However, as a Black girl in a Catholic school in Cornwall,

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US services sector booms to record high in March

Spring has arrived, and America’s services sector is positively booming. As some pandemic restrictions are relaxed and vaccines are put in more arms, pent-up consumer demand is getting released — and that’s helping economic activity in the services sector roar back, according to the Institute for Supply Management‘s monthly report. For March, the group’s index

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Fauci no cree que el Gobierno de EE.UU. impulse los pasaportes sanitarios de vacunación contra el covid-19

(CNN) — El Dr. Anthony Fauci, director del Instituto Nacional de Alergias y Enfermedades Infecciosas, dijo en un episodio del podcast Politico Dispatch este lunes que no cree que el Gobierno sea el principal impulsor de los pasaportes sanitarios o de vacunas, pero que las entidades privadas sí podrían hacer algo con esa idea. “Dudo

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