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Jose Abreu arrives at White Sox camp after being delayed because of a positive COVID-19 test
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Jose Abreu received balloons as part of his arrival to Chicago White Sox camp. The 2020 American League MVP quickly got to work, legging out a double as part of one of the team’s morning drills. His day also included two singles in an intrasquad scrimmage hitting against coaches. Abreu was back right where he wanted to be Saturday — on a field with his teammates. The first baseman’s spring training had been delayed because of a positive COVID-19 test. “It was a very difficult process,” Abreu said Saturday through an interpreter. “It was difficult for me but at the same time, ...
Chicago Tribune
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Jeremy Lin says he won’t reveal person who called him ‘coronavirus’ on the court
Jeremy Lin said he will not reveal the person who allegedly called him “coronavirus" on the court even after his accusation set off an investigation by the G League. “I know this will disappoint some of you but I am not naming or shaming anyone,” Lin wrote on Twitter Saturday morning. “What good does it do for someone in this situation to be torn down?” The former Knicks sensation, 32, who is trying to resurrect his career in the G league bubble with the Golden State Warriors, revealed the “coronavirus” incident in a Facebook post Thursday that detailed the fight against prejudice encountered ...
New York Daily News
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Illinois Tollway will permanently end cash toll collections nearly a year after switching to all-electronic payments
The Illinois Tollway said Thursday it is permanently eliminating cash toll collections almost a year after it took away the option because of the coronavirus pandemic. Since mid-March, the Tollway has suspended all cash toll payments to prevent the spread of the virus. In June, the agency began allowing drivers who don’t use I-Pass or E-ZPass to enter their license plate number at illinoistollway.com and pay online. Customers unable to pay online can pay by check or money order. More than 92% of toll transactions in 2019 took place using I-Pass and E-ZPass, and that number has increased during...
Chicago Tribune
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Kelly Price turns to faith, music after enduring heartbreak in 2020
ATLANTA — Kelly Price endured immense heartache in 2020 but also a creative spurt that helped her maintain her faith and sanity. "Last year was a doozy," she said. "It was the longest, blurriest year ever. I can tell you how I made it through, but I can't at the same time. I happily told 2020 to kick rocks." The COVID-19 crisis entered her personal life when her grandfather, Jerome Norman Jr., former pastor at the Full Gospel Mission, Church of God in Christ in Queens, New York, was lost to the virus in April. Six months later, her beloved mother, Claudia Price-North, the former musical direct...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Commentary: The horrific attacks on Asian American elders cannot lead us to the same old solutions
The videos are horrifying to watch. Asian American elders — the very people we are taught to most respect and protect — shoved to the ground, with cavalier cruelty. Over the past few weeks, a spate of attacks on Asian American elders across the country led to desperate calls for the wider public to pay attention. One San Francisco man, 84, was violently pushed to the ground and later died. Another man, 91, was brutally attacked in Oakland, California. On Feb. 17 in New York City alone, three Asian American women over 50 were attacked in three separate incidents. Feeling that there was "very li...
The Seattle Times
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Woman who died after transplant surgery got COVID-19 from donated lungs
A woman who died after undergoing a double lung transplant at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor is the first known person to contract COVID-19 from donor lungs, according to a new case report published in the American Journal of Transplantation. "To my knowledge, this is the first, and actually the only, documented transmission of COVID-19 to a recipient" from donated organs, said Bruce Nicely, chief clinical officer of Gift of Life Michigan, the state's federally designated organ and tissue recovery program. The case represents "the worst-possible scenario" to play out in...
Detroit Free Press
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Balancing Act: A 14-year-old Chicago kid has connected more than 100 seniors to COVID-19 vaccines. ‘It’s completely beautiful’
Benjamin Kagan, 14, spent winter break remotely navigating the COVID-19 vaccine system in Florida, where his grandparents became eligible for their shots in early January. When his grandparents in Arizona became eligible for vaccines, he spent hours scouring that state’s various sites and systems for availability. He secured shots for those grandparents and his grandparents in Indiana. A few weeks later, when the employees at his parents’ wholesale food company, Good to Go Food, became eligible under Illinois’ group 1b, Kagan started tracking down vaccine appointments for them. “If you’re not ...
Chicago Tribune
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People who wear glasses less likely to catch COVID-19, new study suggests
People who wear glasses could be up to three times less likely to get coronavirus, according to a new study conducted in India. The preliminary study suggests that glass-wearers may have the extra protection because they tend to touch their eyes less frequently than most people. “Touching and rubbing of the eyes with contaminated hands may be a significant route of infection” for COVID-19, the authors wrote in a report published on medRxiv, a website that compiles medical studies before they are peer-reviewed. The new study found that the risk of infection was two to three times lower among th...
New York Daily News
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Low coronavirus transmission rates show a pandemic in decline, but for how long?
SAN DIEGO — Estimates of coronavirus transmission across California and San Diego County reached new lows last week, providing a bit of good news after the deadly holiday surge, which continues to deliver deaths nearly a month after daily case totals started to fall. Those with their fingers closest to the pulse of this persistent pandemic, however, urge the public not to tear off their masks and gather for a round of victory celebrations. This particular virus, they warn, will surely respond to any such gaiety with a fresh attack. Overconfidence, especially among those now vaccinated, could q...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Waiting and hoping: COVID-19 vaccine chasers seek out leftover doses in Sacramento
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — About a dozen people lingered outside Sacramento State's University Union around 3 p.m. Tuesday, waiting not for Starbucks or a student government meeting but for a chance at COVID-19 immunity. The "vaccine chasers," as their counterparts in other cities have been dubbed, didn't have immunization appointments. Many of them wouldn't be eligible to make one anyway. They hoped to swoop in at the end of the day for expiring COVID-19 vaccines being administered at the University Union. The same scene plays out at virtually every Sacramento County clinic, from Jesuit High School...
The Sacramento Bee
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