COVID-19 changed the trajectory of Lucy Trieshmann's budding legal career. Lockdowns in March 2020 meant classes went online, and before long Trieshmann hit a groove attending from home, eventually landing an American Civil Liberties Union fellowship that featured working remotely. "I was able to appear in housing court in New York on behalf of clients and have the energy for them because they were remote," said Trieshmann, who uses she/they pronouns.
Nicola Sturgeon’s Cabinet agreed to consider how the pandemic could be politicised to boost support for independence, as hundreds of Scots were hospitalised with the virus during the first lockdown.
The curves on some COVID-19 graphs are looking quite steep, again. Reported levels of the virus in U.S. wastewater are higher than they have been since the first omicron wave, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, though severe outcomes still remain rarer than in earlier pandemic winters. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times “We are seeing rates are going up across the country,” said Amy Kirby, program lead for the CDC’s National Wastewater