#Anti-masker gets bicycle beatdown in broad daylight

#Anti-masker gets bicycle beatdown in broad daylight

“#Anti-masker gets bicycle beatdown in broad daylight” What a mask-kicking. A Canadian driver’s anti-mask tirade — complete with megaphone — was unceremoniously cut short after an angry bystander shattered his window with a bicycle in a wild video. “When people start smashing your car windows for saying a few words,” wrote Alexander Lasarev above the…

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#916,000 jobs added, 6 percent unemployment

#916,000 jobs added, 6 percent unemployment

“#916,000 jobs added, 6 percent unemployment” The US economy added 916,000 jobs in March as the labor market’s smoldering recovery from the coronavirus pandemic grew into a fire that’s only expected to get hotter, federal data show. The strongest job growth since August beat economists’ expectations for a gain of 635,000 as more Americans got vaccinated…

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#The joy and shock of face-to-face human contact

#The joy and shock of face-to-face human contact

“#The joy and shock of face-to-face human contact” At 98, Yoshia Uomoto can’t hear very well. That made it tricky to communicate with her family whenever they visited her, separated as they were by a window pane at her assisted living facility in Seattle. But after Mark Uomoto, Yoshia’ 68-year-old son, and his cousin, Gail Yamada, got…

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#’We were the pandemic cohort’: How medical students made life easier for doctors

#’We were the pandemic cohort’: How medical students made life easier for doctors

“#’We were the pandemic cohort’: How medical students made life easier for doctors” Yashoda Valliere and her fellow medical students turned helping health-care professionals into its own essential service Yashoda Valliere, a fourth-year medical student at Western University, attended a microbiology class last March, where they reviewed antibiotic therapy. It would be the last time…

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#Europe’s COVID vaccination programs ‘unacceptably slow’: WHO

#Europe’s COVID vaccination programs ‘unacceptably slow’: WHO

“#Europe’s COVID vaccination programs ‘unacceptably slow’: WHO” The World Health Organization has criticized vaccination programs in Europe for being “unacceptably slow” as many countries grapple with spikes in COVID-19 cases. Hans Kluge, who is the WHO’s regional director for Europe, said the pace of the vaccine rollout there has prolonged the pandemic in the region. “Vaccines…

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