WPGU News Summary - Week of May 23rd, 2021 wpgu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wpgu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As the world gradually begins to reopen thanks to vaccinations and the new No-Mask guidelines from the CDC (Center for Disease Control), film festivals are starting to release their dates. But questions remain will they or won t they be in-person events, or will they become a selection of hybrid models with some films and programs presented remotely. Or, horrors of all, could a third or fourth wave of coronavirus variants emerge, causing cancellations like in 2020? We each have to make an individual decision about whether we are comfortable enough to venture out in crowded screening rooms and movie theaters domestically and internationally to join in the festivities. Rumors abound that some big American companies are not planning to attend the international festivals because of a slow rollout of vaccines in other countries, and a failure to control the numbers of hospitalizations and deaths from the virus.
Happy Sunday, Champaign-Urbana!
The University of Illinois COVID testing data reveals a total of 42 COVID-19 cases on campus over the past week. This puts last week’s campus positivity rate at 0.08%.
Champaign-Urbana Public Health has administered 161,979 COVID-19 vaccinations and have fully vaccinated 72,454 people.
Here are last week’s top stories to start off your Sunday! Click the link under each story to listen to them on the WPGU News daily broadcast.
Vaccination card to replace on-campus COVID-19 testing in Fall 2021
By Mac Dudley
From Friday, April 30, 2021
Due to results from studies showing that fully vaccinated individuals have a low chance of spreading COVID-19, the University of Illinois has announced that students will be able to provide their vaccination cards instead of biweekly testing for COVID-19 for the fall semester.
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Being an agricultural worker “is the most beautiful thing,” Saraí says in an interview in Spanish. She asked to be identified only by her first name because she’s undocumented.
Saraí hasn’t been in the fields lately, though, instead focusing on getting her three kids through virtual schooling. And while she has been spared from the virus, Sarai knows many others who’ve gotten sick. She says the pandemic has made the past year a sad and difficult one for many agricultural workers.
There have been tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases and hundreds of deaths reported among U.S. farmworkers and meat plant workers. Because there isn’t an official tracking system in place, these figures based largely on media reports are likely an undercount.
The rollout of the coronavirus vaccine provides hope that the end of the pandemic is near. But it’s not over yet. And in some parts of the country access