Tag Archives: Children

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Reuters). WASHINGTON — Young children should continue to wear face masks, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said in congressional testimony on Wednesday, citing studies she says demonstrate that grade-school-age children can contract and spread the coronavirus. “There’s still transmissions associated with young children,” Walensky said. “They have been vectors of transmission for older people.”… Source link

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, is hoping that children will be able to receive the coronavirus vaccine by late spring or early summer. While CDC data has shown that children are less likely than adults to develop severe illness from the virus, they can still contract and spread it asymptomatically. Yahoo News Medical Contributor Dr. Kavita Patel explains the importance of children getting vaccinated not only for their own health, but also to ultimately help… Source link

Britain has reactivated emergency hospitals built at the start of the pandemic and shut primary schools in London on Friday (local time) to counter the rapid spread of a much more infectious variant of the novel coronavirus. With more than 50,000 new daily cases of Covid-19 for the last four days, the health service said it was preparing for an anticipated rush of patients and needed more beds. The announcement comes just days after the Royal London Hospital told staff in an email it was now… Source link

When it comes to apps, Android leads the pack with nearly 3 million apps in its official Google Play store. The sheer volume also means that sometimes iffy apps slip through the cracks. Researchers at the International Digital Accountability Council (IDAC), a nonprofit watchdog based out of Boston, found that a trio of popular and seemingly innocent-looking apps aimed at younger users were recently found to be violating Google’s data collection policies, potentially accessing… Source link

Life won’t start looking normal for most Google employees before next July, the earliest the company expects its workforce to be able to return to its offices. Yet Google is resuming some suspended business functions, including a high-stakes review cycle that has made at least one group of employees—parents—particularly anxious.   Many Google employees who have kids said they expect the upcoming assessments to show that their job performance suffered in recent… Source link

In July 2020, some social media users accused the furniture store Wayfair of trafficking children. This gravely serious accusation was not based on police reports, firsthand accounts, financial records, or deep investigative reporting. Rather, it was based on the fact that some items on Wayfair were listed at exorbitant prices compared to other, similar items. This rumor appears to have originated on the “conspiracy” section of Reddit on July 9, 2020. That post noted that Wayfair was… Source link