November 2020

By Mike Isaac and Kellen Browning Nov. 11, 2020 Millions of people have migrated away from Facebook and Twitter since the election. As the companies have clamped down on misinformation, they have clashed with Republicans and conservatives who have spread lies about the election’s outcome, leading to claims that the tech platforms are censoring them. They (Mark Levin, Maria Bartiromo,…

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Restaurants, gyms, hotels, and houses of worship are among the 10 percent of locations that would appear to account for 80 percent of the infections, according to research published in the journal Nature on Tuesday. Read HERE. If you’re tired of jamming your fingers or swabs in your ears without success, an earwax removal kit is just the thing…

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By Betty Gold  November 09, 2020 According to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the recall is voluntary, meaning the company is conducting it out of an abundance of caution. The affected packages of romaine lettuce contain a single head and are labeled with a “packed on date of 10/15/2020 or 10/16/2020,” the company said.…

Read More The FDA Is Recalling Nearly 3,500 Pounds of Romaine Lettuce in 19 States Over Potential E. Coli Contamination

By Anna Silman@annaesilman Thanks to an emergent body of research, we now know that symptoms like Chimére’s be indicative of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, which can leave patients suffering from a long list of full-body issues for months after an initial COVID infection. Many of these people, like Chimére, have never tested positive, though research shows that those with…

Read More She Had COVID For Months. No One Believed Her.

The term was originally coined in a political cartoon drawn in 1812. The then Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts helped to enact a law that defined new state senatorial districts. The outline of one of the districts was said to resemble a salamander. Cartoonist Elkanah Tisdale, at the Boston Gazette then drew a picture of…

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Yale professor Marcella Nunez-Smith to co-chair Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force. Nunez-Smith is an associate professor of internal medicine, public health, and management with a focus on healthcare equity. She will be joined as task force co-chair by Dr. David Kessler, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San…

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By Aaron Feis November 5, 2020 When Inauguration Day rolls around on Jan. 20, if Trump has exhausted his legal challenges and physically refuses to leave the White House premises, Biden said in June that he was “absolutely convinced” the military would remove Trump “with great dispatch.” But Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told NPR last month that…

Read More What happens if Trump refuses to concede the 2020 election?

Some Democratic voters are nervous — and a number of Republican voters, alongside the president, are hopeful — that the results of the presidential election aren’t really the results and that somehow court challenges to the vote count will make President Trump the winner. The likelihood of that is almost nil. Here’s why: The Trump…

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Cleaning products ordered online were never delivered to consumers by Katherine Skiba, AARP, November 6, 2020  Twenty-five websites that allegedly tricked people into paying thousands of dollars for Clorox and Lysol products that were not delivered have been temporarily shut down. Some people instead were shipped a pair of socks and had difficulties when seeking refunds,…

Read More FTC Goes After 25 ‘Counterfeit’ Websites Claiming to Sell Lysol, Clorox

By Megan Brooks The study revealed evidence of “neural polarization” ― activity in the brain that differs between people who hold liberal vs conservative political views, the researchers report. Neural polarization intensified when videos included risk-related and moral-emotional language, highlighting content most likely to drive interpretations between conservatives and liberals, they note. For a given…

Read More Imaging Shows the Brain Drives Political Divides