Confronted by a severe shortage of respirator masks and countless stories of healthcare workers on the front lines reusing face masks or using bandanas when they have none, the U.S. federal government is trying a new approach. If it can’t get enough new face masks, it will decontaminate used ones.
President Donald Trump has extended federal social distancing guidelines through the end of April, thus walking back an earlier insistence that America should be “opened up and just raring to go by Easter” despite warnings from health professionals about the growing severity of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The coronavirus pandemic is nothing to joke about, random ‘80s kids. The only way to stay safe: listen to the wisdom of cartoon characters. Or, well, okay, that’s not true, but: sometimes the cartoon characters are helpful and correct.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has teamed up with state and local governments across America to track people’s cellphone location data and trace the novel coronavirus’s spread, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.
Really? Oh. Uh. Yeah, okay, that’s definitely what they did.
