Hundreds of Walmart stores are temporarily closed as winter weather causes severe ice and power outages in Texas, the Southeast and other parts of the country.
Dr. Nahid Bhadelia warned that she anticipates another surge of Covid infections as the new variants of the virus appear across the U.S. If I encounter a person who has one of these variants, I m much more likely to catch the infection from them, and then also, in turn, I m much more likely to transmit it, which means we might have a lot more infections, said Bhadelia during a Monday evening interview on CNBC. And so, you might see more infections in February that then lead to more hospitalizations and deaths in March.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on Monday that the dangerous new Covid variants remain a great concern. At least 32 states have reported cases of the new Covid Strains detected in the U.K, Brazil, and South Africa, according to the CDC. Health officials in Maryland reported the state s first case of the South African variant over the weekend, making it the third known case of the strain in the U.S.
Buyers to Sellers
There are currently 13 stick built homes in Post Falls and Coeur d Alene has 22, she said. In January 2020, Post Falls had 215 homes on the market. In January 2021, there were 63.
The lowest price in Post Falls is $425,000 and in Coeur d Alene is $312,000. A house in the $300,000 range is a rarity and the next lowest price after is $525,000, she showed.
This could be due to a decrease in people moving around locally and an increase in people moving in from out of state. We re finding that people, especially now that they are working from home, the commutes not such a big deal, Henry said. So there s a lot of people from California and Portland that are just buying land.
Florida has waived testing requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Florida Department of Education recently released new graduation rates for school districts and the numbers cracked 90%. Of course there area few caveats. One, the figures cover the 2019-2020 school year which ended amid the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The state also notes the rates a sizeable number of students who benefitted because statewide exams were waived. Still all those caveats don’t fully explain the big gains made in the rural school district of Jefferson County, which boasted its highest graduation rate in decades.
The Jefferson County school district consists of one school, grades K-12 under one roof. But the district has long struggled with its public education system, to the point where, about four years ago, the state effectively ordered it to hand over operations to a private company. Since then, Jefferson-Somerset Academy has slowly seen its students make progress. During the 2019-
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