by Jim Heath | Jun 27, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
Who’s that snowflake? Former Vice President Dick Cheney — a staunch conservative Republican — isn’t politicizing the wearing of face masks. “Dick Cheney says WEAR A MASK” wrote his daughter Liz Cheney, accompanying a photo of her 79-year-old dad looking the part of an...
by Jim Heath | Jun 27, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Trump
Texas cities have begun issuing curfews and stay-at-home orders again after bars in the state were forced to close on Friday for a second time amid a surge in coronavirus cases, as the number of new infections in the US hits an all-time high. The US recorded 45,242...
by Jim Heath | Jun 27, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines
A couple who had been married for 53 years passed away from the coronavirus just moments apart, holding each other’s hand as they died. Curtis and Betty Tarpley, high school sweethearts from Fort Worth, were both diagnosed with COVD-19 earlier in the month. They...
by Jim Heath | Jun 25, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
President Trump keeps spinning a tale about COVID-19 that is at odds with his own administration’s disease experts and data compiled by his own coronavirus task force. In Trump’s telling, the deadly pandemic isn’t really a serious threat to the...
by Jim Heath | Jun 25, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
More than $22,000 has been raised for a Starbucks employee after a customer posted on Facebook that the barista refused to serve her at a San Diego location because she wasn’t wearing a mask. A GoFundMe set up for the barista, identified as Lenin Gutierrez, raised...
by Jim Heath | Jun 24, 2020 | 2020, coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Trump
Dozens of Secret Service officers and agents who were on site for President Trump’s rally in Tulsa last week were ordered to self-quarantine after two of their colleagues tested positive for the novel coronavirus, part of the fallout from Trump’s insistence on holding...
