A Tennessee woman drove her car through a COVID-19 vaccine site in Maryville on Monday, yelling “No vaccine!” as she narrowly missed several National Guard and Blount County Health Department personnel. According to the Blount County Sheriff’s Office, Virginia Christine Lewis Brown, 36, sped through a closed cone course and a tent set up to …
A daycare owner and two employees in Omaha are expected to be charged with child abuse. Omaha police told WOWT that Rosewood Academy owner Carl Hansen is facing misdemeanor child abuse charges. Two employees at the daycare are also facing citations. The charges come two weeks after an outbreak of Covid-19 at the daycare. According …
The uniformed National Guardsmen were transporting COVID-19 vaccines from Lubbock, Texas, to Matador when Larry Harris reportedly forced them to stop.
Officials in one Wisconsin school district have reportedly cited hundreds of students this school year for missing too many days of remote school during the coronavirus pandemic. The Guardian reported that 249 “habitual truancy” citations were issued to students in Manitowoc who have five or more unexcused absences. Records indicated that 198 truancy citations were …
An Oregon woman charged last week when she refused to wear a mask in a Texas bank was arrested Wednesday when she again refused to wear a mask inside an Office Depot in another city. Terry Lynn Wright, 65, was charged with criminal trespass and resisting arrest on March 11 after a Galveston Bank of …
A 65-year-old Oregon woman was arrested Thursday in Texas when she refused to wear a facemask inside a Galveston bank, KHOU reports. Terry Lynn Wright first refused to comply when the Bank of America branch manager asked her to comply with bank rules. Then she argued with a Galveston police officer who arrived and asked …
Kroger said on Thursday that a small number of people who expected to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at one of their Virginia locations actually got empty syringes instead. The reported incident occurred at the Little Clinic in a Kroger in Chesterfield County. The company initially told WWBT that the shots were saline, but later said …
A Missouri couple both died of Covid-19 while quarantining in their Mehlville home last week. According to KSDK, the unidentified parents were both in their 40s, and both had recently tested positive for Covid-19. A neighbor told the news station that he believed the woman may have suffered from a suspected stroke not long before …
Doctors said a Michigan woman died after receiving a double lung transplant from a donor who had the novel coronavirus. Dr. Daniel Kaul, director of Michigan Medicine’s transplant infectious disease service, told NBC News that the donor had not tested positive for COVID-19 before her lungs were donated. A surgeon who handled the infected organs …
The US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, along with the FBI, are looking into New York state’s handling of nursing homes and other long-term facilities during the coronavirus pandemic, the Albany Times Union reports. The investigation is examining the work of some of the members of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s coronavirus task force, someone with direct knowledge …
A Canadian casino CEO and his aspiring actress wife were fined for allegedly posing as motel employees to illegally obtain COVID-19 vaccines intended for Indigenous people living in a remote region. Rodney Baker, 55, and Ekaterina Baker, 32, allegedly violated a 14-day mandatory quarantine after arriving in Whitehorse on January 19 by taking a private …
