Public health experts and environmental justice advocates have been calling for years for the Environmental Protection Agency to tighten its standards on soot, a deadly air pollutant that has been associated with higher COVID-19 death rates. Kentucky council denies Breonna Taylor mother’s request for special […]
As most Forgotten New York readers know, I enjoy maps, especially historic ones that show what the streets of NYC looked like in previous decades. Today, I’ll review an outline map of Queens I saw posted on Facebook by Todd Berkun. This outline map is […]
More than 2,800 people died across the U.S. on Dec. 2, due to the coronavirus pandemic, making it the highest one day total ever reported. The previous high for deaths in one day was just over 2,600 deaths which was recorded on April 15, at the height […]
The United States on Wednesday recorded its single-worst daily death toll since the pandemic began, and on a day when Covid-19 hospitalizations also hit an all-time high, the pace of loss showed no signs of slowing any time soon. Not since spring, during the pandemic’s […]
(CNN)As the US prepares for the first round of vaccinations to tackle Covid-19, infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci called on the public to “be part of the solution” and get vaccinated once it is available. “Say, ‘I’m not going to be one of the people […]
(CNN)It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America’s civil rights movement. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus. Little […]
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