CoVID-19

Pig Farmers Will Start Culling Herds Due to Lack of Processing Plants

May 4, 2020 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: May 4, 2020

President Trump’s recent executive order to keep meat and poultry processing plants open during the COVID-19 pandemic might not be enough to keep farmers from culling their herds. Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture Collin Peterson, D-Minnesota, told a… [read]

COVID-19 Deaths More Frequent In Regions with High Air Pollution Levels

April 26, 2020 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: April 28, 2020

New research finds that high levels of pollution are closely associated with COVID-19 deaths. In a new study that examined 66 administrative regions in France, Italy, Spain, and Germany, researcher Yann Ogen found that 78% of deaths occurred in just… [read]

Coronavirus Could Be Devastating for the Navajo Nation

April 24, 2020 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: April 24, 2020

The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., saw its first case of COVID-19 on March 27th, and since then has seen over 1,300 positive tests for the virus. Most people in the Navajo Nation live in… [read]

Coronavirus Could Be More Widespread than Current Numbers Indicate, New Stanford Study Says

April 18, 2020 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: April 19, 2020

A new study from Stanford University has suggested that CoVID-19 is 50 to 85 times more common than the official numbers have shown. At the time the study was conducted, Santa Clara County had 1,094 confirmed cases of coronavirus and… [read]

COVID-19 Threatens Indigenous People in Brazil as Deforestation in the Amazon Continues

April 13, 2020 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: April 14, 2020

The Karipuna people in the Brazilian Amazon are in isolation due to COVID-19, but the presence of loggers close to their villages is compromising their efforts to stay safe. The Karipuna Indigenous People’s Association (Apoika), Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi), and… [read]

ABC Says Homemade Sanitizers Don’t Work For Coronavirus – We Disagree, So Here’s a Recipe

April 9, 2020 by Sage Edwards
Last updated on: April 9, 2020

There are more than 14,000 reported cases of CoVID-19 in the United States, and numbers are only expected to rise as testing becomes more readily available. The EPA recently released its list of approved disinfectants for the virus. Clorox and… [read]

Tiger Tests Positive for Coronavirus

April 6, 2020 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: April 6, 2020

A Malay tiger named Nadia at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes CoVID-19. Six other big cats at the zoo, three tigers and three lions, are also displaying similar symptoms. These symptoms include coughs… [read]