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Panic attacks highlight stress at shelters for migrant kids

Associated Press (AP) ??" Paramedics were called regularly to treat children suffering from panic attacks so severe their hands would constrict into balls and their bodies would shake. The outbursts often occurred after other children were taken away to be reunited with families, dashing the hopes of those left behind at the largest emergency shelter set up by the Biden administration to hold minors who had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone.

The conditions described by a federal volunteer who spent two weeks in May at the shelter at Fort Bliss Army Base in El Paso, Texas,... Read More

UK's Johnson delays lockdown easing for England by 4 weeks

LONDON (AP) ??" British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Monday that the next planned relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in England will be delayed by four weeks, until July 19, as a result of the spread of the delta variant.

In a press briefing, Johnson voiced his confidence that he won't need to delay the plan to lift restrictions on social contact further, as millions more people get fully vaccinated against the virus. He said that by July 19, two-thirds of the British population will have been double-vaccinated.

"I think it is sensible to wait just a "Now... Read More

The Latest: Vermont lifts remaining COVID-19 restrictions

MONTPELIER, Vt. ??" Vermont Gov. Phil Scott on Monday lifted all remaining COVID-19 restrictions after the state reached the milestone of 80% of eligible residents getting at least one dose of the vaccine.

The governor said: "Vermonters met this difficult moment from the very start."

Scott had said he would drop the remaining restrictions early, before July 4, if the state reaches that milestone. The 80% target equals about 70% of Vermont's total population, which is where the governor's administration originally thought the state could be by July 4, according to the... Read More

As US COVID-19 death toll nears 600,000, racial gaps persist

Jerry Ramos spent his final days in a California hospital, hooked to an oxygen machine with blood clots in his lungs from COVID-19, his 3-year-old daughter in his thoughts.

"I have to be here to watch my princess grow up," the Mexican American restaurant worker wrote on Facebook. "My heart feels broken into pieces."

Ramos didn't live to see it. He died Feb. 15 at age 32, becoming not just one of the nearly 600,000 Americans who have now perished in the coronavirus outbreak but another example of the outbreak's strikingly uneven and ever-shifting toll on the nation's... Read More

Novavax: Large study finds COVID-19 shot about 90% effective

Vaccine maker Novavax said Monday its COVID-19 shot was highly effective against the disease and also protected against variants in a large study in the U.S. and Mexico, potentially offering the world yet another weapon against the virus at a time when developing countries are desperate for doses.

The two-shot vaccine was about 90% effective overall, and preliminary data showed it was safe, the American company said. That would put the vaccine about on par with Pfizer's and Moderna's.

While demand for COVID-19 shots in the U.S. has dropped off dramatically and the... Read More

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Panic attacks highlight stress at shelters for migrant kids

UK's Johnson delays lockdown easing for England by 4 weeks

The Latest: Vermont lifts remaining COVID-19 restrictions

As US COVID-19 death toll nears 600,000, racial gaps persist

Novavax: Large study finds COVID-19 shot about 90% effective

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