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School shooting lockdown drills: Are they effective?

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School shooting lockdown drills: Are they effective?

As schools re-open across the country, there’s one thing that has not gone away: lockdown drills All of Van Duyn Elementary School in Syracuse, New York, went eerily quiet. On that cold November afternoon in 2019, there was no sound in the school’s hallways except for the echoing of footsteps, going door to door between … Read more

US hits 500,000 deaths; Britain lockdown; Biden PPE loans

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US hits 500,000 deaths; Britain lockdown; Biden PPE loans

The US has crossed a dismal COVID threshold again, much faster than any other country in the world. Less than a year after the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic, the US recorded its 500,000th death on Monday, according to the Johns Hopkins University dashboard. That’s more than double the number of COVID-19 deaths registered … Read more